The FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2018 | Financial Technologies Forum, LLC | 6 April 2018 |

The purpose of these awards is to celebrate and recognize the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry bodies and regulators that have made significant strides and noteworthy achievements in operational excellence during 2017.

Categories:
• Best Artificial Intelligence (A.i.) Initiative
• Best Blockchain Initiative Of The Year
• Best Buy-side Operations Solution
• Best Clearing & Settlement Solution
• Best Client Reporting Solution
• Best Cloud Computing Solution
• Best Collateral Management Solution
• Best Compliance Solution
• Best Corporate Actions Processing Solution
• Best Cutting-edge Solution
• Best Financial Crime Prevention Technology
• Best Middle-office Solution
• Best Middle-to-back-office Integration Solution
• Best New Post-trade Solution
• Best Operational Risk Management Solution
• Best Outsourcing Provider
• Best Performance Measurement System
• Best Reconciliation Solution
• Best Regtech Solution
• Fintech Person Of The Year
• Ops Business Person Of The Year
• Service Provider Of The Year
• Software Solution Of The Year

2017 Winners:

BEST BUY-SIDE OPERATIONS SOLUTION
• Eagle Investment Systems

BEST CLEARING & SETTLEMENT SOLUTION
• Nomura Research Institute (NRI)

BEST CLIENT REPORTING SOLUTION
• Vermilion – a FactSet company

BEST CLIENT SERVICES SOLUTION
• FactSet

BEST COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
• TriOptima triResolve Margin

BEST COMPLIANCE SOLUTION
• Qumram

BEST CORPORATE ACTIONS PROCESSING SOLUTION
• IHS Markit

BEST CUTTING-EDGE SOLUTION
• RIMES – RegFocus

BEST DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
• State Street Global Exchange

BEST DERIVATIVES OPERATIONS SOLUTION
• SmartStream Technologies

BEST DLT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
• Synechron

BEST INVESTMENT BOOK OF RECORD (IBOR) SOLUTION
• SimCorp

BEST MIDDLE-OFFICE SOLUTION
• Eagle Investment Systems

BEST MIDDLE-TO-BACK-OFFICE INTEGRATION SOLUTION
• OpenLink Financial

BEST NEW POST-TRADE SOLUTION
• Nomura Research Institute (NRI)

BEST OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
• IHS Markit – KY3P

BEST OUTSOURCING PROVIDER
• SmartStream Technologies

BEST PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM
• StatPro

BEST PRICING OR VALUATION SOLUTION
• Numerix

BEST RECONCILIATION SOLUTION
• Electra Information Systems

BEST REGULATORY REPORTING SOLUTION
• Sapient Global Markets

FINTECH PERSON OF THE YEAR
• Faisal Husain, CEO and co-founder, Synechron

OPS BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR
• Charlie Marchesani, president, global technology and operations (GTO), Broadridge Financial Solutions

SERVICE PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
• Broadridge Financial Solutions

THE EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
• Karla McKenna, Director, Citi & Head of Standards, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation