Voter Information As a reminder, nominees are not permitted to vote for themselves which includes parent companies of nominees and representing PR firms First Name Last Name Company Professional Title Email Phone Voting Solution Provider Categories 1. Best Buy-Side Operations Solution This award will recognize the IT solution, systems, innovation or service that exemplifies the best that a provider has to offer for buy-side firms as they strive for operational excellence. The winning offering can be a standalone product or service or part of a suite. Broadridge Financial Solutions Calypso Eagle Investment Systems Eze Software Group FIS InfoHedge Technologies SS&C Advent 2. Best Clearing & Settlement Solution The voters will be rewarding the solution provider that has achieved a level of excellence via innovation for the clearing and settlement of market transactions. In addition to the established providers, the voters will consider those vendors breaking ground for new financial instruments and the latest regulatory changes. Broadridge Financial Solutions Calypso Cinnober Financial Technology Fiserv Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Tata Consultancy Services, TCS Financial Solutions 3. Best Client Reporting Solution This award honors the provider that has advanced the complex process of client reporting. The winner will demonstrate that it has improved the customization, look, and feel, and delivery of reports for many kinds of clients and portfolios. The award also recognizes progress in automating reports, managing source data, monitoring the status of productions, and clarity in performance reporting. First Rate FIS SimCorp Coric SS&C – Varden SS&C Advent Vermilion – a FactSet company 4. Best Client Services Solution The proper care of client starts with the best on-boarding process, which involves flawless know your customer (KYC) data and support. Ongoing customer care is also essential and customer relationship management (CRM) systems can help firms better serve their clients. This award will focus attention on the provider that advances optimal treatment of market participants. Artivest Broadridge Financial Solutions FactSet iMeta Technologies Thomson Reuters 5. Best Collateral Management Solution Financial services firms have had to comply with an onslaught of collateral and margining regulations that are creating workflows that stretch across front, middle and back offices. To alleviate the burdens of the new rules, providers are creating and updating solutions to help firms optimize the oversight of collateral and margining. This award will focus on the provider that has done the most to help firms prevail over an upheaval in a major securities operation. Acadiasoft Calypso CloudMargin DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral Ltd. Lombard Risk SmartStream Technologies TriOptima triResolve Margin 6. Best Compliance Solution This award is for the solution that delivers a distinguished offering in a specialized area, designed to help meet a critical compliance need. The winning supplier must demonstrate an ability to keep pace with an evolving industry and show a level of achievement in improving their clients’ needs to meet obligations and optimize their operations. Solutions eligible for nomination can be from any niche area of compliance for equities, fixed income, and derivative instruments. In addition, solutions that focus on relevant aspects of regulatory, legal, data, social, and IT compliance are also eligible. IMP Consulting NICE Actimize Qumram RIMES – RegFocus SIX Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service 7. Best Corporate Actions Processing Solution Corporate actions processing continues to advance and this award spotlights the provider that has incorporated industry standards, advanced automation, data management, ESG data, and emerging technologies. The winner in this category will have helped its clients move closer to automation and streamlined processing. Fidelity Corporate Actions Solutions FIS IHS Markit Tata Consultancy Services, TCS Financial Solutions Vestmark 8. Best Cutting-Edge Solution This award recognizes the industry participant that has successfully developed innovative financial technology solutions for middle- and back-office post-trade operations. Eligible areas of consideration include advanced cloud-native services, hybrids of legacy and cutting-edge IT, a groundbreaking offering that eliminates manual processes, and new Ops-focused products that break the mold. Broadridge Financial Solutions CACEIS FIS IHS Markit Linedata RIMES – RegFocus 9. Best Data Management Solution Managing data to get the most out of it for securities operations is an ongoing challenge for all financial services firms. Data that is optimized will yield multiple benefits for securities operations and beyond. This honor is for the provider that has demonstrated that it can help firms derive the most value from their clean data and pave the way for greater advancements to come. Eagle Investment Systems Electra Information Systems Gresham INDATA SmartStream Technologies State Street Global Exchange 10. Best Derivatives Operations Solution Derivatives operations have gotten complicated and this award cites the provider that has stood above its competitors in achieving excellence via superior services and solutions that greatly improve operations for processing listed and/or over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Broadridge Financial Solutions OpenLink Financial SmartStream Technologies Tradeweb Markets Watson Wheatley 11. Best DLT Initiative of the Year Distributed ledger technology (DLT) efforts are promising to revolutionize much of the major aspects of middle- and back-office operations. To that end, financial services firms, providers and other organizations have been investigating the future impacts of DLT-based systems. This award is meant to focus attention on the initiative that will most advance securities operations. Bloq Broadridge Financial Solutions DTCC Symbiont Synechron 12. Best Investment Book of Record (IBOR) Solution Investment Book of Record (IBOR) solutions have helped increase operational efficiency across the front, middle and back office. This award recognizes the lead IBOR provider. Eagle Investment Systems Misys Siepe SimCorp Vestmark 13. Best Middle-Office Solution The middle office plays an important role in optimizing operations across the enterprise. The winner in this category will be chosen from among the ranks of middle-office operations providers that offer IT resource management services, risk management, risk data analytics, client and security master database support, and services for the coding, configuration, and verification of trades. Broadridge Financial Solutions Eagle Investment Systems OpenLink Financial Quantifi SEI 14. Best Middle-to-Back-Office Integration Solution The middle and back-offices are no longer autonomous groups existing independently of each other. They are linked by multiple operations serving multiple assets. This award will spotlight the Ops offering that helps firm facilitate more efficient integration between middle- and back-office applications, particularly IT innovations that eliminate manual systems, legacy solutions and pave the way for operational efficiency. Broadridge Financial Solutions Equinoxe Alternative Investment Systems FIS INDATA OpenLink Financial 15. Best New Post-Trade Solution This distinction focuses attention on the solution from a startup or an established provider that launched an exceptional offering during the past year. The new product should bring new efficiencies and new benefits to middle- or back-office systems. The new offerings to be considered should help the buy side meet crucial operational efficiency demands. New offerings for consideration can come from established providers or newcomers to the industry. Broadridge Financial Solutions Elysium Misys Nomura Research Institute (NRI) SmartStream Technologies 16. Best Operational Risk Management Solution Operational risk permeates everything that a financial services firm does, including securities trading and all the steps needed to complete a transaction. This award will go to the provider that has shown the most creativity in mitigating operational risk whether it is related to onboarding and KYC challenges, reputational concerns, margining and collateral management woes, data mismanagement, disaster recovery/business continuity, corporate governance, and other issues that may hamper operations. Backstop Broadridge Financial Solutions IHS Markit – KY3P OpenLink Financial Wolters Kluwer 17. Best Outsourcing Provider Outsourcing plays a key role for many facets of securities operations. This category honors the provider that offers valuable, reliable, cost-effective and efficient outsourced services to the buy side. The winner in this category will be honored for offering the highest levels of reliability, security and adaptability, and for demonstrating capabilities for rapid implementations and flexible consumer models. Broadridge Financial Solutions First Rate SmartStream Technologies SS&C Advent Vestmark 18. Best Performance Measurement and Attribution System This category spotlights the performance measurement solution provider that offers systems for exemplary calculation of returns for portfolios (benchmarks and composites); calculation of attribution effects for equity and fixed-income portfolios; and calculation of ex-post risk, absolute and relative. BISAM Confluence DTCC Eagle Investment Systems SS&C StatPro 19. Best Pricing or Valuation Solution Firms are under pressure to implement a wide range of new regulatory requirements. Suppliers need to provide more support for transparency, optimal valuation controls, enhanced risk and better infrastructure options. This award will recognize the service supplier that offers: the broadest product coverage; partners that contribute pricing; excellent methodology; and specific features for the buy side. Asset Control Misys Numerix Quantifi 20. Best Reconciliation Solution Reconciliation for securities operations has been the focus of a lot of energy over the past five years. The result is a wider range of opportunities available for firms looking for effective solutions. This category is an opportunity for the industry to reward the solution provider offering an innovative approach that yields great results and support, and helps firms reallocate resources to their advantage. Clearwater Analytics Electra Information Systems FIS SmartStream Technologies SS&C TriOptima triResolve Portfolio Reconciliation Watson Wheatley 21. Best Regulatory Reporting Solution Keeping up with regulatory reporting requirements is an ongoing burden for financial services firms that is only going to become more challenging. Automating processes across an enterprise is daunting for firms, and the industry is exploring a variety of models to support regulatory technology (RegTech). The surge in ESG-based investing has also created a new area of concern for firms that need to prove to investors they are not engaged in greenwashing. This award honors the solutions provider that has made a commitment to advancing data integrity and data governance, ending repetitive processes, and streamlining reporting across the enterprise and to regulators. Confluence Droit DTCC London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Microsoft Corporation Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Sapient Global Markets Wolters Kluwer 22. FinTech Person of the Year This award will recognize a behind-the-scenes individual who has been highly effective in advancing a major financial technology issue impacting the industry. The person to be honored has devoted much time and effort toward proliferating a new standard, a key technology initiative, a regulatory-related project or a technology breakthrough that benefits the industry. The winner in this category must show that he or she can work across the aisle with business executives and staff. Faisal Husain, CEO and co-founder, Synechron James Waldinger, founder and CEO, Artivest John Wise, CEO, InvestCloud Veronica Augustsson, CEO, Cinnober Financial Technology Vijay Mayadas, senior vice president and global head of corporate strategy and US fixed income, Broadridge Financial Solutions 23. Ops Businessperson of the Year This award honors an executive-level individual who has advanced the cause of financial technology innovation from the business side of the aisle. The winner of this award can be from a solutions provider, an end-user firm, or related consultancy committed to improving securities operations for financial services firms. The winner must demonstrate that he or she has effectively worked with IT managers and operations staff. Charlie Marchesani, president, global technology and operations (GTO), Broadridge Financial Solutions Cheryl Nash, president, investment services, Fiserv Paula Arthus, managing director and head of Omgeo and Data Services at the DTCC Sheryl Brown, director of the business development analyst team, Ash Brokerage Susan M. Vismor, head of global business continuity for BNY Mellon 24. Service Provider of the Year The Service Provider of the Year will be celebrated for advancing the delivery of service, extraordinary client support, new synergies with key market participants and extraordinary leadership in the industry. The winner in this category must be able to show that it boosted the fortunes of its clients. Backstop Broadridge Financial Solutions Eagle Investment Systems OpenLink Financial SmartStream Technologies State Street Global Exchange TriOptima 25. The Editor’s Choice Award for Operational Excellence The FTF News editor, a panel of judges and FTF News readers can nominate a provider, industry group, end-user financial services firm, user group or individual that has embarked upon a successful financial IT project or industry initiative that has advanced operational efficiency and governance. The editor and the judges will pick the top nominees and then the ultimate winner. The group or person to be honored in this category can be selected from a variety of Ops and governance areas, including whistleblowers, operational data providers, financial services firms that achieved an exemplary implementation of an Ops system, or a new provider that disrupts the industry in a positive way. Karla McKenna, Director, Citi & Head of Standards, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation Submit