2023 Categories

Nominations for the A-Team Innovation awards can be made by financial institutions, vendors, consultants and our advisory board in the following categories.

Innovative Client and Counterparty Projects

• Most innovative client onboarding and lifecycle management solution
• Most innovative KYC investigation & due diligence
• Most innovative entity data hierarchies approach
• Most innovative sanctions and PEPs data solution (client projects under entity data)
• Most innovative conduct risk / SMCR / Know Your Employee (KYE) / staff surveillance project
• Most innovative supply chain risk management / Know Your Vendor initiative

Innovative Enterprise Data Projects

• Most innovative financial data security solution
• Most innovative unstructured data management project
• Most innovative hosted/managed enterprise data management: EDM-as-a-Service
• Most innovative data architecture project
• Most innovative data orchestration for regulatory reporting
• Most innovative data quality initiative
• Most innovative data standards initiative
• Most innovative data governance initiative
• Most innovative data lineage solution
• Most innovative digital rights management/licensing compliance/usage tracking
• Most innovative trade data management & reconstruction
• Most innovative data privacy by design
• Most innovative use of AI in an enterprise data management initiative

Innovative Use of Technology in Capital Markets

• Most innovative operational resilience / business continuity initiative
• Most innovative cyber security initiative
• Most innovative implementation of knowledge graph technologies
• Most innovative use of distributed ledger technology/blockchain
• Most innovative data-driven transformation project
• Most innovative use of open source/cloud technologies

Innovative Front Office Projects

• Most innovative market data solution
• Most innovative alternative data solution for trading & analytics
• Most innovative cloud-based market data delivery
• Most innovative alternative data solution
• Most innovative API framework/microservices architecture for trading
• Most innovative AI in trading initiative
• Most innovative solution for front-office/trading
• Most innovative smart trader desktops & workflows
• Most innovative trading infrastructure monitoring approach
• Most innovative cloud-based trading analytics initiative
• Most innovative buy-side trading workflow / STP

Innovative RegTech Projects

• Most innovative regulatory reporting solution
• Most innovative regulatory compliance monitoring / management
• Most innovative trade surveillance solution
• Most innovative AML / financial crime compliance initiative
• Most innovative trade & transaction reporting initiative
• Most Innovative ESG data solution
• Most Innovative ESG regulatory reporting solution
• Most innovative use of alternative data in regulatory compliance
• Most innovative AI in regulatory compliance initiative

Innovative Teams & Approaches

• Most innovative professional development initiative
• Most innovative diversity, equity and inclusion strategy
• Most innovative young persons’ education/recruitment (‘academy’) programme
• Most innovative team
• Most innovative financial technology executive
• Most innovative project 2022