Analysis
Interest rates house of the year: Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Multi-asset capabilities and risk recycling allow the bank to bring hit solutions to the market
Asia house of the year: BNP Paribas
Bank reaps rewards of doubling down on Asia as rivals retrench
Commodities house of the year: Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
French bank focuses on client solutions as rivals pull back
Foreign exchange house of the year: BNP Paribas
French bank helps corporates hedge in the wake of China devaluation
Australia house of the year: UBS
Consistency and deep local roots makes Swiss bank go-to house for Aussie supers
Malaysia house of the year: RHB Banking Group
New business sees increasing volumes amid difficult markets
Japan house of the year: Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Innovative reinsurance products helped solve insurers’ fixed indexed annuity hedging needs
Taiwan house of the year: Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
Bank proved capacity to handle long-term relationships with clients, partners and regulators can pay dividends
Index provider of the year: S&P Dow Jones Indices
New smart beta indexes and partnerships with exchanges a recipe for success
ETF house of the year: Commerzbank
German lender reaps benefits of scale
Technology vendor of the year: Thomson Reuters
Demand for off-the-shelf pricing from regional and local banks plays to vendor’s strategy
Multi-issuer platform of the year: Contineo
Firm builds platform for strong growth amid tough environment
Bank technology provider of the year: BNP Paribas
Speed and reliability of bank’s Smart Derivatives platform a key plank of regional strategy
Deal of the year: Credit Suisse
Addition of knock-outs to corridor variance swaps keeps investors happy and helps with risk recycling
Equity derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Innovative product development and risk recycling power bank to record year
FVC analysis: leveraged return vs dual directional products
Offering investors gains on the downside can present risk management headaches
Best fraud detection product: Clari5
Financial crime-management system uses collective intelligence and responds to changes in a client's behaviour over time
Law firm of the year: Stephenson Harwood
Small is beautiful for the regulatory litigation practice, representing banks in high-profile cases
Asset manager of the year: AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein reduces costly operational blunders by bringing risk to the fore
Best outsourcing provider: Lanware
The firm offers a full suite of services, from disaster recovery, unified communications and back-up to cloud-based IT
Best cyber risk/security product: RiskLens
The US software company's product enables reporting and decision-making on cyber security
Bank of the year: UBS
Risk management failures cause the bank to revamp its op risk programme
Best compliance product: Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications
At the foundation of Oracle's offerings across all 46 of its financial services analytical applications is a common data model
Best managed/support services provider: Abide Financial
Firm captures a 24% market share in Mifid reporting by volume and is the third-largest manager of trade reports under Emir