New risks, new efficiencies, new customers
FOW’s second Awards for Innovation built strongly on the popularity of the 2009 Awards, with lots more entries, especially from technology companies.
During the year covered by these Awards, from April 2009 to March 2010, exchanges, clearing houses and brokers brought to market an impressive array of new products, treasury management innovations and systems to foster trading and risk management.
But it is on the technology side that new products are flooding to market. Responding to this, FOW has split its Award for Best Innovation by IT and Software Companies into four categories: Trading and execution, Connectivity services, Risk management and Options.
Each category received many entries, so that in this sector, as well as the Awards for Banks, Brokers and FCMs, we have also given Silver Awards.
Each company submitted an application in the spring, which were judged by an independent...