Eugene Grygo, Chief Content Officer, FTF News
It’s that time of year again when we unveil the nominations for the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019. We are proud to say that this year we have an assortment of new and established industry nominees that share a commitment to pursuing excellence in securities operations.
It was a challenging process to review all the nominations for this year’s competition, but it was inspiring that so many have applied since we launched the first awards effort in 2011.
In fact, for some key categories, we have seven or eight nominees instead of the usual five candidates because of the stunning responses we have gotten.
Much has changed over the past eight years and our categories and nominees reflect that. The securities operations industry has been able to apply innovation to an amazingly wide variety of functions from using artificial intelligence (AI) to review and enhance voice-trading sessions to blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that are paving the way for a truly digital future.
What has not changed over the years is the voting process. From the start, operations professionals select the winners in all but the Editor’s Choice award categories. We feel that those responsible for the day-to-day operations at global firms would be the best to pick the winners, and to thus keep the pressure on for excellence.
To quickly recap the rules, individuals cannot vote for their own company, which includes public relations/marketing/etc. concerns that represent and/or promote the nominees, or a subsidiary or parent company of the nominee. To keep things fair, those votes will be automatically disqualified.
We do encourage votes from industry peers, clients and other relevant industry professionals. We don’t allow spouses, siblings, children, parents, grandparents, random friends or pets to participate in the voting process. (We know “Fluffy” can be demanding.) Those votes via business e-mail addresses will be considered as valid. Please note that votes from personal e-mail addresses will not be counted.
As per usual, we strongly encourage nominees to ask their end-user clients to participate in the voting process — if their firms allow such endorsements of providers.
So, the voting has begun and will continue until April 12. We will announce the winners on May 15.
The fun starts here.
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