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14th October 2026

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AI in Capital Markets Awards - Categories and Descriptions 2026

Below you will find the list of categories for the AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 along with a short description for each.

The AI technology that best enhances market integrity by detecting anomalies, identifying potential misconduct, and ensuring compliance in real-time trade surveillance.

Best AI Solution for Pre-Trade Analytics

The AI-powered solution that delivers the most comprehensive pre-trade insights, optimising order execution through advanced market analysis, sentiment tracking, and predictive modeling.

Best AI Solution for Trader Workflow Management

The AI-driven innovation that most effectively streamlines trader workflows, reducing friction and enhancing decision-making efficiency in high-velocity trading environments.

Best AI Solution for Historical Data Analysis

The AI-powered system that excels in extracting actionable intelligence from vast historical datasets, enabling backtesting, strategy refinement, and market trend analysis.

Best Ai Solution for Transaction Cost Analysis

The AI-driven platform that provides the most precise and insightful transaction cost analysis, empowering firms to optimize execution strategies and improve trading performance.

Best AI Solution for Liquidity Discovery

The AI solution that delivers the most effective liquidity discovery capabilities, helping traders navigate complex, fragmented markets and execute with optimal efficiency.

Best AI Solution for Research Summarisation

The AI-driven tool that best distills complex financial research and academic literature into concise, actionable insights, enhancing efficiency for analysts and investment professionals.

Best AI Solution for High-Performance Data Processing

The AI-driven technology that delivers the most efficient, scalable, and low-latency processing of vast financial data sets, enabling real-time analytics, decision-making, and competitive advantage in capital markets.

Best AI Solution for Trade & Order Management

The AI-driven system that most effectively optimizes the lifecycle of a trade, from pre-trade analysis to execution.

Best AI Solution for Quantitative Analysis & Risk Management

The AI solution that delivers the most sophisticated data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and real-time risk assessment for quantitative trading and portfolio risk management.

ENTERPRISE

Best AI Solution for Document Management & Data Extraction

The AI-powered technology that is best deployed for classifying and archiving documents, as well as extracting unstructured data from those documents.

Best AI-Based Solution for Data Quality

The AI-driven solution that most effectively ensures data accuracy, consistency, and reliability, minimising errors, enabling effective distribution and improving decision-making in capital markets.

Best AI-Based Solution for Data Discovery & Classification

The AI-powered platform that excels in uncovering, classifying, and structuring enterprise data, enabling seamless and timely access to valuable insights across the organisation.

Best AI-Based Solution for Data Management

The AI technology that best streamlines enterprise data processes, ensuring quality, governance, scalability, and efficiency in handling complex financial datasets.

Best AI Solution for Portfolio Construction & Analytics

The AI-powered technology that optimally supports portfolio managers with advanced asset allocation, risk-adjusted return optimisation, and deep analytics for portfolio construction and investment decision-making.

Most innovative use of AI in an Enterprise Data management Initiative

The most groundbreaking AI-driven initiative that has transformed enterprise data management, setting new standards for automation, efficiency, and strategic insight.

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

Best AI Solution for Data Intelligence & Governance

The AI platform that best empowers firms to discover, classify, and manage vast datasets across the enterprise.

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 Financial Crime & AML Monitoring

The AI solution that delivers the highest precision in detecting illicit activities, such as money laundering and market abuse.

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. Can include real-time content filters, input/output monitors, as well as proactive solutions like AI red teaming, vulnerability scanning, and offensive security testing.

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 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.

Best Agentic AI Platform for Capital Markets

The leading platform enabling the deployment of autonomous AI agents capable of executing multi-step, complex financial workflows with minimal human intervention.

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