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About A-Team
Innovation Awards 2023
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards
2023. The awards, now in their third year, celebrate innovative projects
and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make useof new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions forfinancial institutions in capital markets. The awards were presented
virtually on 23 March, 2023.
The awards included 51 categories across A-Team Group’s DataManagement Insight, RegTech Insight, TradingTech Insight, and ESG
Insight news channels. They ranged from most innovative AI in regulatorycompliance initiative to most innovative diversity, equity and inclusion
strategy, most innovative KYC investigation and due diligence, mostinnovative ESG data solution, most innovative cloud-based trading
analytics initiative, most innovative data-driven transformation project,and most innovative team.
Thank you to all the vendors and practitioners that entered their groundbreaking solutions and services, and to A-Team Group’s independent,
expert advisory board that worked in collaboration with our editorial teamto select this year’s winners.
If you would like your company to be considered for future A-Team
Innovation Awards, visit here, where you can either enter your details tobe notified when we open for nominations, or submit your entry if we areopen for nominations.

I’d personally like to thank our advisoryboard for their time and valuable input.
Julia Bardmesser
Former SVP, Head of Data, Architectureand Salesforce Development
Voya Financial
Kathryn Zhao
Head of Electronic Trading
Cantor Fitzgerald
Peter Jackson
Director, Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Carruthers & Jackson
Co-Author of ‘Data Driven
Transformation’Anthony Ta
Digital Project Director/Innovation &Watch Leader
Societe Generale
Ian Hollowbread
MD Global Innovation Lead Safe &Compliant
ING
Ben Clinch
Principle Enterprise Architect – Data
Governance
BT
Jane Gavronsky
Chief Operating Officer
FINOS Foundation

Andrew Delaney
President & Chief Content Officer
A-Team Group

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Moody’s Analytics helps you to validate
entities upon creation, link data
between disparate sources, and keep
your ‘golden record’ up to date.
» Third-party reference data
» Entity relationships» Mergers & acquisitions© 2023 Moody's Analytics, Inc. and/or its licensors and affiliates. All rights reserved.

Visit moodysanalytics.com/master-dataMoody’s Analytics
Winner: Most innovative entity data hierarchies approach
Moody’s Analytics Solutions for Third-Party Master Data
As organizations search for ways to optimize their data management strategies, master data management (MDM) rises to the
top as an effective, secure, and scalable solution. Third-party master data, when used in conjunction with an enterprise MDM
system, enables an organization to control its data and unlock numerous financial and productivity growth opportunities.
Moody’s Analytics provides master data, including firmographics, company size metrics, and corporate hierarchies. With
industry-leading coverage of over 450 million entities across a broad range of entity types, our pre-mastered data is available
via a wide range of applications, APIs and proprietary connectors to ensure seamless delivery to virtually any third-party or
in-house data management system.

Matt McDonald, Managing Director of Global Content

About Moody’s Analytics
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help businessleaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information
resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently
navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and awardwinning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services,
assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience.
www.moodysanalytics.com

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Empowering
innovation

Proven AI-enabledcloud solutions
SmartStream has been a trusted partner of the financial
industry for more than four decades. We have always beenat the forefront of developing transformative solutions for
middle- and back-office operations.
Our solutions and services span the transaction lifecycle
and incorporate the very latest AI and machine learningtechnologies. These can be accessed in a variety of ways
- via APIs and micro-services, or deployed as managed
services and cloud environments.
Find out why many of the top financial institutions globally
continue to rely on our innovations.

info@smartstream-stp.com
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SmartStream
Technologies
Winner: Most innovative AI in regulatory compliance initiative
SmartStream’s solutions use the most advanced technologies to help customers realise their digital strategies and create
leaner post-trade operations, allowing them to meet today’s, and tomorrow’s challenges with confidence.
With over four decades of experience behind us, SmartStream has become a trusted partner that deliver automation andcontrol to many of the world’s top 100 banks, capital markets, buy-side firms and corporations. The demands of the industry
particularly at times of transformation has allowed us to grow, introducing new solutions and winning multiple industry
accolades.
Our wealth of practical knowledge, coupled with a constant focus on innovation, has made us an industry leader. We invest
in R&D heavily and our innovations team is dedicated to researching ways in which advanced technologies can be deployed.
This ensures that our technology continues to lead the way in efficiency, reliability and relevance.
SmartStream’s solutions and services span the transaction lifecycle and incorporate the latest AI and machine learningtechnologies. These can be accessed in a variety of ways, for example, via APIs and micro-services, or deployed as managed
services and cloud environments.

Jethro MacDonald, Product Manager, AI and Machine Learning

About SmartStream Technologies

www.smartstream-stp.com

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SmartStream is a recognised leader in financial transaction management solutions
that enable firms to improve operational control, reduce costs, build new revenue
streams, mitigate risk and comply accurately with the regulators.
By helping its customers through their transformative digital strategies, SmartStream
provides a range of solutions for the transaction lifecycle with AI and machine learningtechnologies embedded - which can be deployed in the cloud or as managed
services.
As a result, more than 2,000 clients - including the world’s top 100 banks, rely on
SmartStream’s solutions to deliver greater efficiency to their operations.

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Refinitiv,
an LSEG business
Winner: Most innovative use of open source/cloud technologies
Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets dataand infrastructure – providing information, insights, and technology that enable customers to execute critical investing,trading and risk decisions with confidence. By combining a unique open platform with best-in-class data and expertise, we
connect people to choice and opportunity – driving performance, innovation and growth for our customers and partners.
Now, as part of LSEG we are underpinned by the strength and stability of a more than 300-year-old organisation, broadening
our capacity to positively impact the financial community — be it in trading and banking, investment, wealth, customer andthird-party risk, and enterprise data solutions.
We draw on cleaner, richer, more readily accessible data to support the use of advanced technologies like AI and machinelearning – helping our customers gain greater insight, fuel more rapid innovation, and successfully navigate this time of
unparalleled change.
With core principles of partnership and an open model approach, we provide more choice to customers and give themgreater opportunity to take on complexity, and scale efficiently. We do so know that by advancing our customers, we drive
progress for the entire financial community.

Matt Eddy, Head of Real-Time Customer Managed Services

About Refinitiv, an LSEG businessrefini.tv/3SFKDwP

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Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, is one of the world’s
largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure. With over 40,000
customers and 400,000 end users across 190 countries, Refinitiv is powering
participants across the global financial marketplace. We provide information, insights,& technology that enable customers to execute critical investing, trading and risk
decisions with confidence. By combining a unique open platform with best-inclass data and expertise, we connect people to choice & opportunity – driving
performance, innovation and growth.

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RimesWinner: Most innovative data quality initiative
The Rimes ESG Master data solution is a multi-level managed data service that provides institutional investors with asingle golden source of all their ESG data. Users seamlessly consume ESG Master data into their internal and downstream
workflows via data feed, desktop API and cloud. Rimes applies proprietary technology to validate all vendor-provided ESG
data.
This innovative approach provides access to proprietary mastering algorithms and ensures that security identifiers are
mapped to all entities and securities in clients’ portfolios and linked to millions of ESG data points from over 30 ESG vendors.
Clients have the ability to interact with and validate the data via Rimes’ online platform to customize hierarchies, propagation
logic and overrides.
“The ESG mastering exercise is about understanding the minutia of ESG data, allowing for multiple sources of the truth andhow data is propagated across the entity hierarchy. It is essential that someone really understands the actual data in order tomaster it—this is where the Rimes ESG team in uniquely positioned.”

Elisabeth Seep, Rimes ESG Product Manager

About Rimes
Rimes provides transformative data management, ESG and investment intelligencesolutions to the global investment community. Driven by our passion for solving themost complex data problems, we partner with our clients to help them make better
investment decisions using accurate information and industry-leading technology.
Headquartered in New York and London, Rimes serves its global clients throughoffices in Europe, Americas and Asia Pacific.
www.rimes.com

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S&P Global
Market Intelligence
Winner: Most innovative diversity, equity and inclusion strategy
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a world-leading provider of financial information services and a division of S&P Global(NYSE: SPGI).
Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to
expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
We bring transparency, cutting-edge research, and business intelligence to markets worldwide. Our deep sector-specificintelligence includes energy, financial institutions, fintech, industrials, maritime & trade, metals & mining, TMT, real estate,retail, and construction.
A wide range of customers rely on us across capital markets, corporations, professional services, governments, academia,
and to commercial banks. With a deep understanding of our customers’ needs, we stand alongside our clients to help solve
their most complex business challenges.
First established in 1860, our legacy is built on finding and knowing the essential. Most recently, in 2022, S&P Global Market
Intelligence and IHS Markit’s Financial Services division united with the goal of helping customers harness the volume andvelocity of data in ways that unlock progress for us all.

Adam Kansler, President

About S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate,deep, and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights andleading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand theirperspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.

spglobal.com/marketintelligence

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Novatus Advisory
Winner: Most innovative teamNovatus Advisory was established to raise the expectations firms have of their advisors. This means developing innovative
offerings across both technology and advisory. Our practical industry experience allows us to identify where technology
can support, enhance, and improve day-to-day operations and ensure clients remain compliant with global regulations. By
combining these tools with our expert advisors, we provide a truly unique offering to the market.
How is the Novatus team unique?
Our Advisory function is led by industry leading experts across transaction reporting, risk, compliance and ESG. This ensures
we can help firms solve their most complex challenges. The Advisory function works with the RegTech development team data scientists, software engineers, back- and front-end developers – to develop market leading technology solutions.
Our flagship RegTech product – the Novatus TRA (Transaction Reporting Analysis) Tool – was created to help firms meet theirlegal obligation to reconcile transactions to source systems. This makes us the only provider that performs full reconciliationof all trades with an interactive user interface and transparency back to the underlying regulation.
We are currently developing other RegTech products for compliance, risk and ESG. Our next product – the Novatus
Compliance Management Tool (“CMT”) will be launched in April 2023. This streamlines and digitises compliance for firms,
thus significantly reducing the risk of non-compliance with regulations and cost.

Members of the Novatus Advisory and RegTech teams

About Novatus Advisorywww.novatusadvisory.com

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Novatus means to renew, refresh and change: this is how we operate. We aim tochallenge the traditional consultancy model in order to deliver a new form of advisory
to our clients, and raise the expectations.
Novatus Advisory combines market-leading RegTech tools with expert advisors
to provide tailored and effective solutions for financial services firms. Our uniqueapproach to the regulatory environment enables us to drive impact through action
and innovation.

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West Highland
Support Services
Winner: Most innovative trading infrastructure monitoring approachWest Highland Support Services is the leading vendor agnostic, market data solutions company. We operate exclusively inthe financial services sector and are recognized across the globe as the Industry authority and leading thought partner formarket data, information, referential and professional services for over 25 years.
Our mission is to optimize client market data environments and ensure their TCO is at optimal levels while maintaining
business requirements.
We are industry pioneers in remote support and market data engineering dedicated to providing;
System Architecture / Design

Cloud based Services

Managed Services

Compliance Audit Reviews

Contract Negotiations

Inventory Mgt.

Expense Mgt.

Executive Consulting Mgt.

West Highland possesses Subject Matter Expertise across all verticals and is best suited for this exercise. In our tenure wehave completed over 25 successful transformation and optimization programs that have streamlined client environments,
business processes, commercial agreements, and reduced annual market data run rates in excess of 100M per year.
Innovation is at the heart of our business strategy we work with our clients to help them resolve issues that affect theirbusiness stability and ensure it continues to generate revenue for the firm. This includes the following innovation:
Web Access Control Manager SEC SCI Regulation – The only productthat achieves SEC SCI compliance for FI and FX single bank portals bymanaging password and policies on resetting passwords● Zabbix Open Source Enterprise Monitoring – Managing, Alerting andSupporting clients Market Data Platforms and Applications availability● Data Notification Manager – The only tool in the industry that automates
identifying application impact from vendor data notifications● Intelligent Data Platform – Authenticates and Authorizes clients enterprisedata usage with their market data desktops● Robotic Process Automation – Developed Westy BOTS to help client
process invoices, usage declaration to exchanges, identify cost savings
from month over month usage and cost analysis● Application Latency for Vendors and Exchanges (ALIVE) – Measure vendor
and exchange latency across the lifecycle of data from the exchange tothe client’s application. Identifying the least latent data from●Rob Hau, CTO

About West Highland Support Services

www.westhighland.net

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The leading vendor agnostic, market data solutions company. We operate exclusively
in the financial services sector & are recognized as the Industry authority & leading
thought partner for market / referential data solutions & professional services for over
25 years.
Our mission is to optimize client environments & ensure TCO is at peak levels while
maintaining business requirements.
Innovation is at the heart of our business strategy. We work with our clients to help
them resolve issues that affect their business stability & ensure it continues togenerate revenue for the firm.

12Winner: Most innovative trade surveillance solution

ACA Group
ACA Group (ACA) is the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor
in financial services. We empower our clients to reimagine GRC and protect
and grow their business. Our innovative approach integrates advisory, managed
services, distribution solutions, and analytics with our ComplianceAlpha®
technology platform with the specialized expertise of former regulators andpractitioners and our deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape.
www.acaglobal.com

Garth Bungard, Director of Client Development

Winner: Most innovative implementationof knowledge graph technologies

Blackswan Technologies
BlackSwan Technologies’ platform ELEMENT™ enables organisations to build
enterprise AI applications at scale for any domain quickly and at a fraction of thecost of alternatives. It incorporates industry-leading knowledge graphs to provide
contextual information on entities. BlackSwan and its global partners also provide
ready-made industry-proven applications that are fully customisable for rapid
ROI. ELEMENT is generating billions of dollars in economic value through digitaltransformation at renowned global brands.

Lior Perry, Chief Engagements Officer

www.blackswantechnologies.ai

Winner: Most innovative data standards initiative

Bloomberg
Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is an established global standard of
the Object Management Group, as well as an X9 American National Standard. The
FIGI has also been adopted as a standard by the Brazilian Association of TechnicalStandards (ABNT). The FIGI standard is issued by Bloomberg L.P. and Kaiko as a
Certified Providers and distributed by Bloomberg L.P. as the Registration Authority
under the auspice of OMG and X9..
www.openfigi.com

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L: Steve Meizanis, Global Head of Symbology
and LEI Services | R: Richard Robinson,
Chief Strategist, Open Data and Standards

13Winner: Most innovative hosted/managed
enterprise data management: EDM-as-a-Service

BNY Mellon
BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clientsmanage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle.
As of Dec. 31, 2022, BNY Mellon had $44.3 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, $48T data assets, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management.
BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation(NYSE: BK).

Team Data Vault, BNY’s Integrated Data Platform

www.bnymellon.com

Winner: Most innovative use of AI inan enterprise data management initiative

Canoe Intelligence
Canoe Intelligence redefines alternative investment data processes for leading
institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms, and wealthmanagers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data
capture technologies, Canoe’s technology automates the highly-frustrating,time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment
document and data management, extraction, and delivery. Over 200 companies
like Blackstone, Carlyle, State Street, SEI, and Hamilton Lane leverage Canoeto refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth,
increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data.

Canoe’s Product Teamwww.canoeintelligence.com

Winner: Most Innovative ESG regulatory
reporting solution

Clarity AI
Clarity AI is a sustainability technology platform that uses machine learning andbig data to deliver environmental and social insights to investors, organizations,and consumers. Clarity AI’s capabilities are an essential tool for end-to-end
sustainability analysis related to investing, corporate research, benchmarking,consumer ecommerce, and regulatory reporting. As of January 2023, Clarity AI’s
platform analyzes more than 70,000 companies, 360,000 funds, 198 countries,
and 199 local governments, which represents the broadest data coverage in themarket with up to 13 times more than other leading players.
clarity.ai

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Winner: Most innovative KYC investigation& due diligenceeClerxeClerx’s Compliance Manager is an innovative KYC and Client Onboarding
Solution that offers financial institutions and Corporates state-of-the-art
technology, advanced automation, workflow, and real-time reporting capabilities.
The solution delivers a highly automated, scalable, and cost-efficient digital
end-to-end KYC and Client Onboarding journey. Compliance Manager helps
Financial Institutions and Corporates to significantly reduce onboarding times
while improving the customer experience and reducing cost. It streamlines theinitial onboarding and ongoing review process, automates the collection andverification of customer information, and enables compliance with ever-evolving
regulatory requirements.

Mehul Ramani, Tech Leadwww.eclerx.com

Winner: Most innovative cloud-based
market data delivery

FactSetFactSet helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better.
Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics andopen technology globally. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side as well as
wealth managers, private equity firms and corporations achieve more every
day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation
workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. We are proud to havebeen recognized amongst the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor.
www.factset.com

Winner: Most innovative alternative datasolution for trading & analytics

FlexTrade
FlexTrade Systems is a global leader in high performance multi-asset execution
management and order management systems for equities, fixed income, foreignexchange, futures, and options. A pioneer in the field, FlexTrade is internationallyrecognized for introducing FlexTRADER®, the world’s first broker-neutral,
execution management trading system, which allows clients to completely
control and customize their execution workflows through a comprehensive ability
to search/access liquidity while maintaining the confidentiality of their trading
strategies.

Anita Karppi, SVP – Sales andBusiness Development, EMEA

flextrade.com

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Winner: Most innovative API framework for trading

FXSpotStream
Launched in December 2011, FXSpotStream eliminates the costs of execution forprice takers and offers banks and clients the ability to interact bilaterally and in a
fully transparent manner.
Banks connected to FXSpotStream serve as Liquidity Providers to clients, who
can access a GUI or single API, from co-location sites in New York, London andTokyo, to communicate with all Liquidity Providing banks.
www.fxspotstream.com

Members of FXSpotStream’s EMEA Team

Winner: Most Innovative ESG data solution

GoldenSource
GoldenSource SaaS solutions enable financial firms to conduct business,manage risks, comply with regulations and control costs with a trusted source ofcomplete, consistent data. Our solutions source, standardize, validate, analyseand deliver mission critical market, reference, ESG, customer and product data to
the people and systems that need it. GoldenSource ESG Impact helps firms taketruly informed action on their ESG data - wherever it comes from, whatever form
it arrives in.
www.thegoldensource.com

Volker Lainer, VP, Product Management
and Regulatory Affairs

Winner: Most innovative unstructured
data management project

Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton UK LLP combines global scale with local insight, quality andunderstanding to give clients the assurance, tax, and advisory services theyneed to realise their ambitions. We make business more personal by investing inbuilding relationships. We help dynamic organisations unlock their potential for
growth by providing meaningful, forward-looking advice. We work at our client’s
pace to bring both flexibility and rigour. We celebrate fresh thinking and diverse
perspectives to bring positive progress.

Nikhil Asthana, Head of Data
Transformation and Automation

www.grantthornton.co.uk

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Winner: Most innovative data lineage solution

Instrumentix
Instrumentix is a leader in performance monitoring and analytics for global
financial markets.
xMetrics®, our unique modular solution, provides a real-time view of end-toend performance of some of the world’s most complex trading environments.
Committed to continuous innovation we ensure trading businesses receive theactionable insight and transparency needed to optimise execution outcomes,
drive business improvement, and comply with regulatory requirements.
We take immense pride in partnering with our clients to help them gain
competitive edge.

Clive Posselt, Commercial Director

www.instrumentix.co.uk

Winner: Most innovative operational resilience /business continuity initiative

IPC
IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets.
We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications
solutions, helping clients anticipate, change and solve problems, setting thestandard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive
technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of thelargest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes
and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers thecommunity to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, andwe collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant,and connected. Follow us on Linkedin and Twitter.

Terry Ewin, VP Trading Systems Sales EMEA

ipc.com

Winner: Most innovative financial technology executive

KOR Financial
U.S.-based KOR Reporting is a CFTC-licensed and the first independent Swap
Data Repository (“SDR”), delivering solutions that enable market participants
to meet reporting mandates for OTC derivative trades and lifecycle events.
KOR Financial is a fintech company that develops future-minded technology
innovations explicitly tailored for processing and management of trade life
cycles in derivatives markets. KOR replaces many common reporting functions
performed internally by clients today and solves long-standing systemic industry
reporting challenges with novel innovations and pioneering technology. The KORteam comprises former trade repository heads, SMEs, and technology pioneers,
creating the first intelligent transactional derivatives platform.

Jonathan Thursby, Founder and CEO

www.korfinancial.com

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Winner: Most innovative client onboarding
and lifecycle management solution

KYC Hub
KYC Hub enables organizations to mitigate the risk of financial crime and reduce
costs by an automated and configurable risk ops infrastructure and better data
insights. Our RPA-powered workflow engine enables onboarding and due
diligence workflows for any use case. Powered by hundreds of AI-enabledverifications and our proprietary knowledge graph of individuals and entities, weempower organizations to tailor their onboarding and risk assessment and reduce
costs, friction, and risk.

Jay Rao, CEO

www.kychub.com

Winner: Most innovative conduct risk / SMCR /Know Your Employee (KYE) / staff surveillance project

MCO
MyComplianceOffice provides compliance management software that enables
companies around the world to reduce their risk of misconduct. Our powerfulplatform lets compliance professionals demonstrate they are proactively
managing the regulated activities of employees, third-party vendors and otheragents of the firm. Available as a unified suite or à la carte, our easy-to-use andextensible SaaS-based solutions get clients up and running quickly and costefficiently.

Brian Fahey, CEOmycomplianceoffice.com

Winner: Most innovative cloud-based
trading analytics initiative

Numerix
Numerix is the leading provider of innovative capital markets technology
applications and real-time intelligence capabilities for trading and risk
management. Committed to out-of-the box thinking, the exploration andadoption of latest technologies, Numerix is dedicated to driving a more open,
fintech oriented, digital financial services market. Built upon a 20+ year analyticalfoundation of deep practical knowledge, experience and IT understanding,
Numerix is uniquely positioned in the financial services ecosystem to help
its users reimagine operations, modernize business processes and capture
profitability.

Nestor Nelson, Chief Information Officer,
Senior Vice President, Program Management Officewww.numerix.com

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Winner: Most innovative AI in trading initiative

Overbond
Overbond is an AI quantitative analytics provider for institutional fixed income
capital markets. Overbond provides data aggregation solutions and acomprehensive suite of AI algorithms for bond trading automation, pricing andliquidity discovery, pre-trade signals and market surveillance.
www.overbond.com
Vuk Magdelinic, CEO

Winner: Most innovative cyber security initiative
Winner: Most innovative trade data management &reconstruction

Siepe
Siepe is a leading provider of innovative financial data and technology solutions
for complex decision-making and workflow management. Through its intuitive
managed platform, firms are able to integrate institutional best practices acrosstechnology, services and operational processes. Siepe’s cloud-based solutions
suite offers flexible front, middle and back-office components that can standalone or integrate with other systems. Siepe’s seasoned experts ensure agileand seamless end-to-end implementation and offer continuous support andguidance. Siepe has demonstrated success across the investment management
industry, assisting emerging managers to more complex, mature hedge funds
in reducing operational risks, enhancing workflow processes, and driving
competitive advantages.

CEO, Michael Pusateri

siepe.com

Winner: Most innovative sanctions and
PEPs data solution

S&P Global Market Intelligence
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate,deep, and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights
and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand
their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
spglobal.com/marketintelligence

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Sadhana Mohideen, Director,
Sanctions Screening Product Manager

19Winner: Most innovative trade &transaction reporting initiative

S3
S3 is a full-service compliance and trade analytics software company that serves
many of the world’s largest financial institutions and exchanges. S3’s sleek,easy-to-use platform features trade analysis tools such as Global Best Ex & TCA
for Options, Equities, and Fixed Income, as well as regulatory reporting tools for
Trade Surveillance, SEC Rules 605 and 606 reporting, Consolidated Audit Trail(CAT) reporting, and MiFID II / MiFIR reporting. LinkedIn: S3 Twitter: @S3Bestex

Mark Davies, CEOs3.comWinner: Most innovative solution for front-office/trading

smartTrade Technologies
smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic
trading platforms, helping customers achieve business growth through our costefficient, technologically advanced secure private SaaS end-to-end solution.
smartTrade in-house hosted solutions support Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income,
Crypto and Derivatives asset classes with connectivity to 130+ liquidity providers,enabling tailored aggregation, smart execution, risk management, ordermanagement, analytics, payments and multi-channel distribution.
smartTrade supports a variety of regulated and unregulated Financial Institutions.

Guillaume Spay, Head of Sales - EMEA

www.smart-trade.net

Winner: Most innovative regulatory reporting solution

UnaVista
UnaVista is reframing regulatory reporting through data insights, workflow
automation and easy onboarding. Trusted by firms globally, UnaVista simplifies
compliance with derivatives reporting regulations in multiple jurisdictions,
including EMIR and MiFIR/MiFID II. Reporting billions of transactions annually
through LSEG’s robust infrastructure, UnaVista removes reporting uncertainty andcomplexity – so regulation is no longer a hindrance, it’s an opportunity. UnaVista is
an LSEG Post Trade business.

The team from UnaVista, An LSEG Business,celebrating their award win

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Winner: Most innovative data-driven transformation
project

Vault Platform
Vault Platform is the operating system for corporate integrity. With our Active
Integrity solution, your people can report incidents of misconduct which you canthen resolve and prevent in the Resolution Hub. By identifying patterns before
they become problems and unlocking true oversight, you can prevent accidental
oversights and actively assess your ethical health. For the good of your people
and the good of your organization, choose Vault. It’s just good business.

Tori Reichman, Chief Customer Officer

vaultplatform.com

Winner: Most innovative regulatory compliancemonitoring / management

Verint Systems
Trusted by over a thousand financial organizations globally, Verint® is at theforefront of answering new compliance challenges with a unique combinationof state-of-the-art, secure capture and archive solutions, augmented with
automation and industry-leading transcription and voice analytics capabilities.
Verint’s innovative Human Compliance™ approach shifts the focus fromtechnologies to the alignment of data around people. By deploying Verint
Financial Compliance, companies can bridge gaps in compliance data and drive
better results across recording and surveillance activities.

Phil Fry, Vice President,
Financial Compliance Strategy

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Highly commended
A-Team Innovation
Awards 2023 winners

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Most innovative data-driven transformation project
Mosaic Smart Data
Most innovative solution for front-office/trading
Numerix
Most innovative use of distributed ledger technology/
blockchain
R3

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More A-Team Innovation
Awards 2023 winners

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Most innovative use of distributed ledger technology/
blockchain+SUBSCRIBE
Most innovative data orchestration for regulatory
reportingApex Regulatory Capital, LLC
Most innovative use of alternative data in regulatorycompliance
DYDON AI
Most innovative smart trader desktops & workflows
Finsemble
Most innovative market data solution
Iress
Most innovative project 2022
MDOTM
Most innovative data architecture project
NeoXamwww.a-teaminsight.com

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Most innovative young persons’ education/
recruitment (‘academy’) programme
QomplyMost innovative buy-side trading workflow / STP
Secretarium
Most innovative data privacy by design
Secretarium
Most innovative alternative data solution
Sentifi AG
Most innovative digital rights management/licensing
compliance/usage tracking
TRG Screen
Most innovative AML / financial crime complianceinitiative
iSPIRALwww.a-teaminsight.com

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