FOW International Awards shortlist

Published 13 Oct 2016

William Mitting Contact Author

After over 120 entries have been reviewed, the FOW International Awards shortlist has been released. The winners will be unveiled at a Gala Dinner in London on 7 December at which Icap group chief executive Michael Spencer will receive the lifetime achievement award. Congratulations to all our shortlisted firms.

Category 1: Personal and individual awards LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Winner: Michael Spencer, ICAP

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR Shaun Lynn, President, BGC Partners Xavier Rolet, CEO, LSE Jeff Sprecher, CEO and ChaIrman, Intercontinental Exchange Lance Uggla, President, IHS Markit Category 2: Exchanges and clearing categories EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR • US and Canada IntercontinentalExchange Nodal Exchange CME Group TMX EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR • South America BM&F Bovespa Rosario Futures Exchange MexDer Bolsa de Valores de Colombia

EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR • Europe Nasdaq Eurex IntercontinentalExchange Euronext

EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR • Asia-Pacific ASX Singapore Exchange Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Taiwan Futures Exchange

EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR • Middle East and Africa Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange Johannesburg Stock Exchange Dubai Mercantile Exchange Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

BEST TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION BY AN EXCHANGE BSE – new data centre Eurex – ISA Direct Nasdaq – NFF Korea Exchange – Azerbaijan trading system

CLEARING HOUSE OF THE YEAR • The Americas CME LCH ICE Clear US OCC

CLEARING HOUSE OF THE YEAR • Europe Nasdaq Clearing LCH Eurex Clearing ICE Clear Europe

CLEARING HOUSE OF THE YEAR • APAC and MEA Singapore Exchange LCH Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing JSCC

US OPTIONS EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR EDGX MIAX CBOE Nasdaq Options Market

BEST NEW EXCHANGE OR TRADING PLATFORM BSE - mutual fund trading platform Nasdaq Futures Exchange GMEX ICE Futures Singapore

MOST INNOVATIVE NEW CONTRACT • Equities and equity indexes Singapore Exchange – MSCI China Moscow Exchange – Micex mini CME Group – BTIC suite Taiwan Futures Exchange – TOPIX

MOST INNOVATIVE NEW CONTRACT • Commodities and energy Singapore Exchange – SGX Platts Iron Ore China London Metal Exchange – Steel scrap CME Group – aluminium suite Multi Commodity Exchange of India – Gold Global

MOST INNOVATIVE NEW CONTRACT • Interest rates and currency CME Group – Ultra 10 year treasury notes ASX – 20 year treasuries Taiwan Futures Exchange – USD/CNT Dubai Gold and Commodity Exchange – Quanto currency contracts

PROP TRADERS’ EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR Voted for by prop traders, no shortlist

EXCHANGE DEAL OF THE YEAR IntercontinentalExchange acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation Nasdaq acquisition of ISE Deutsche Bourse acquisition of 360T disposal of Russell Investments

SEF OF THE YEAR Tradition Tradeweb Bloomberg Tullett Prebon

TRADE REPOSITORY OF THE YEAR Unavista DTCC CME Trade Repository Regis-TR

Category 3: Banks, brokers and market makers BANK OF THE YEAR Citi SocGen JP Morgan Merrill Lynch

IDB OF THE YEAR OTC Global Holdings Tullett Prebon Tradition BGC Partners

NON-BANK FCM OF THE YEAR RJ O’Brien ADM Investor Services ED&F Man Phillip Capital

CLIENT CLEARING FIRM OF THE YEAR Citi JP Morgan Bank of America Merrill Lynch

MARKET MAKER OF THE YEAR XTX Flow Traders Citadel Securities Optiver

PROP TRADERS’ CLEARING FIRM OF THE YEAR Voted for by prop traders, no shortlist

Category 4: Technology providers

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Trade reconciliation Duco Sapient Traiana Broadridge

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Blockchain Nasdaq Symbiont National Settlement Depository Russia SETL

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Post trade TrueEx Traiana Message Automation Broadridge

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Regulatory reporting Sapient Risk Focus Abide Financial Misys

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Risk management Trading Screen Nasdaq Quantifi Rival Systems

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Trading and execution Dash360 Trading Technologies Rival Systems Tethys Technology

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Connectivity Beeks Itiviti Ullink Perseus

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Collateral management Cloud Margin Quantifi Calypso Lombard Risk

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT • Market surveillance Ancoa Nasdaq Onemarketdata B-next

TRADING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR • Buy-side Horizon Itiviti Trading Technologies Rival Systems

TRADING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR • Sell-side Thomson Reuters Fidessa Horizon Redi

BEST INNOVATION BY AN ISV - REGULATORY CHANGE Itiviti Abide Financial B-next