Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is pleased to announce that operational excellence and major achievements in financial technology innovation surged in 2020 as evidenced by the winners of the 2021 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The winners of the FTF Awards competition, now in its tenth year, are being announced today, June 7, and they… Read More >>
Submit Your Nominations for the FTF Awards Now!
The 2021 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards nomination process officially got underway Monday, January 11, and will continue until Feb. 12. Now in its tenth year, the FTF Awards competition is an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry associations, financial services firms, and regulators that make significant advances… Read More >>
Ops Spends Too Much Time On Exceptions: Q&A
(Todd Sloan, business development, senior vice president, Electra Information Systems, took time out of his schedule to give FTF News a progress report on Electra Information Systems. The provider of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, Electra is the winner of the 2020 FTF News Technology Innovation award for “Best Reconciliation Solution” for the fifth consecutive… Read More >>
Sell-Side Firms Are Reviving Key Projects: SmartStream
(Sell-side firms are reviewing and reengaging strategic projects in the wake of a pandemic that caused staff to work remotely, says Jason Ang, program manager, TLM Collateral Management, at SmartStream Technologies. This return to strategic projects amid lockdowns and re-openings means the sell side is re focusing on collateral and its importance for credit risk… Read More >>
SmartStream Argues for the Utility Approach
(Editor’s note: SmartStream took home the award for Best Operational Risk Management Solution in this year’s FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition for its Reference Data Utility (RDU) offering. Among its many aspects, the RDU provides a security master that was created “in close association with demanding global institutions,” according to SmartStream. The RDU is a… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Embraces Disruptive IT to Fight Crime
(Editor’s note: The Best Financial Crime Prevention Technology honor from the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019 went to NICE Actimize and its portfolio of financial crime solutions. Voters singled out the company for the five major financial crime solutions that it launched in 2018 with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) central… Read More >>
Cloud Computing Helps Firms Control Costs: Q&A
(For the 2019 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, Murex won for Software Solution of the Year and Best Cloud Computing Solution. Murex describes itself as a provider of integrated trading, risk management, processing and post-trade solutions, available via the MX.3 third-generation platform. For this Q&A, the focus is on cloud computing and Arnaud de Chavagnac,… Read More >>
Voters Reward Disruptive & Established Providers via FTF Awards
NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
Cast Your Vote in the FTF Awards Competition
It’s that time of year again when we unveil the nominations for the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019. We are proud to say that this year we have an assortment of new and established industry nominees that share a commitment to pursuing excellence in securities operations. It was a challenging process to review… Read More >>
Get Ready for the FTF Awards 2019
Never mind the Golden Globes, the Oscars or any of the other awards events, the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019 are about to get underway. We will kick off the first step via the nominations process, which begins Monday, January 7. The nomination categories can be found here. You will have until January… Read More >>
