Categories

Below you will find the list of categories for the AI in Capital Markets Awards 2025 along with a short description for each.

Best AI Solution for Software Development

The AI-powered tool that most effectively accelerates software development, testing and deployment, improving coding efficiency, reducing errors, and optimising deployment in financial technology.

Best AI Solution for Client Communications

The the AI-driven innovation that enhances client interactions, providing personalised, real-time, and intelligent communication across multiple channels.

Best AI Solution for Client Relationship Management

The AI-powered platform that delivers the most advanced CRM capabilities, leveraging data-driven insights to strengthen client engagement and retention.

Best AI Solution for Client Behavioural Analysis

The AI technology that provides the deepest insights into client behaviours, enabling firms to predict client preferences, enhance engagement, and tailor offerings.

Best AI Solution for Conduct Risk Management

The AI technology that most effectively identifies and mitigates conduct-related risks within financial institutions, ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations and adherence to internal policies through continuous monitoring and analysis of employee activities.

Best AI Solution for Privacy

The AI innovation that best help firms ensure that the personal and sensitive proprietary data they store and use is not shared beyond the parameters of their governance policies and remains valid and intact for enterprise use.

Best AI Solution for Credit Risk Analysis

The AI-driven platform that delivers the most comprehensive credit risk evaluation, integrating real-time financial data, alternative credit signals, and predictive analytics to enhance decision-making in credit risk management.

Best AI Solution for Data Security

The AI solution that offers the greatest protection for an enterprise’s data from theft and that ensures its integrity and structure is not compromised by misuse, unauthorised use or cyberattack.

RISK & REGULATION

Best AI Solution for Compliance Mapping & Policy Management

The AI-powered platform that best maps regulatory obligations to internal policies, automating the management and updating of compliance frameworks.

Best AI Solution for Regulatory Reporting

The AI-driven system that streamlines and automates the regulatory reporting process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adaptability to changing regulatory demands, thereby reducing operational burdens and compliance risks.

Most innovative AI in regulatory compliance initiative

The most groundbreaking AI-driven initiative that has redefined regulatory compliance, leveraging advanced automation and intelligence to streamline compliance processes.

Best AI Solution for Regulatory Horizon Scanning

The AI technology that delivers the most comprehensive and proactive regulatory horizon scanning, identifying emerging rules and potential compliance risks before they impact operations.

Best AI Solution for Sanctions Screening

The AI-driven platform that most effectively enhances detection of potential sanctions violations, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with global regulatory requirements while minimising false positives.

Best AI Solution for Risk Management

The AI-powered system that provides the most advanced risk analytics, enabling financial institutions to assess, predict, and mitigate operational, market, and/or credit risks with precision.

Best AI / ML solution for ESG

The AI or machine learning-driven innovation that best supports Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) analysis, risk assessment, and compliance, helping firms meet sustainability and regulatory expectations.

Best AI Solution for Regulatory Intelligence

The AI-powered tool that provides comprehensive detection and impact of regulatory changes, enabling financial institutions to anticipate and adapt to new regulations swiftly.

Best AI Solution for Know Your Vendor

The AI-powered solution with the biggest impact on vendor due diligence, automating the assessment and continuous monitoring of third-party relationships to ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and maintain operational integrity.

Best AI Solution for Economic Forecasting

The AI solution that provides the most accurate and actionable macroeconomic predictions, leveraging advanced modelling techniques and alternative data sources to anticipate market movement.

Best AI Solution for Identity Verification

The AI-driven system that transforms the identity verification process, providing rapid, accurate, and secure authentication of individuals to prevent fraud and unauthorised access.

Best AI Solution for KYC & AML Due Diligence

The AI-powered platform with the most transformative impact on Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), streamlining continuous due diligence processes, maximizing detection rates whilst minimizing false positives.

Best AI Solution for Threat Detection & Operational Risk Management

The AI-enables solution that best identifies and mitigates potential threats, providing real-time analysis, accurate predictive insights, and seamless integration with case management systems.

GENERAL

Best AI-Enabled App for Capital Markets

The application that best integrates AI to enhance functionality, automate tasks, and provide intelligent insights or interactions.

Best Guardrail Solution for AI Models

The solution that provides the best mechanisms for ensuring AI models operate safely, ethically, and within predefined boundaries to prevent biases, errors, or unintended outcomes.

Best Solution for AI Model Orchestration

The solution that provides the most effective method for managing, deploying, and coordinating multiple AI models to optimize performance, scalability, and automation in workflows.

Best Vector DB & RAG Solution for AI Deployment

The solution that makes best use of the hybrid Database & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach to enhance AI model responses by retrieving relevant, up-to-date information from external sources before generating outputs.

Best Solution for AI Model Serving & Compute

The solution that best enables AI models to be deployed, scaled, and executed efficiently, leveraging compute resources to handle inference requests in real-time or batch processing.

Best AI-Enabled Foundation Models for Capital Markets

The pre-trained AI model that best serves as a base for fine-tuning and adaptation of AI to specific applications.

Best AI Consultancy for Capital Markets

The consultancy that delivers outstanding AI expertise, strategy, and implementation support to capital markets firms, driving innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.

Best AI Start Up for Institutional Markets (business must be younger than 5 years old to qualify)

The most innovative AI start-up that has demonstrated exceptional potential in serving institutional markets. The recipient will be a young company (under 5 years old) that has leveraged artificial intelligence to develop cutting-edge solutions tailored to the needs of institutional clients, such as banks, asset managers, hedge funds, or large corporations.