Analysis
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
Best operational risk initiative: Oric’s Scenario universe and Principles of operational risk management and measurement
The consortium wins with a definitive set of op risk scenarios that insurers can use to identify which one is relevant
Best newcomer: Capital Preferences
Its Economic Fingerprint product uses basic games to tease out a client's 'revealed preferences' in terms of their attitude to risk
Regulator of the year: Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Apra wins praise for pushing business case for op risk modelling and scenario analysis
Best financial crime product and Best overall provider of the year: Nasdaq Smarts
A surveillance system developed by Nasdaq proves critical to the success of a 'layering' case
Best regulatory reporting platform or service: UnaVista
The service boasts some 50,000 users, with around five billion transactions being processed each year
Best GRC product and Best operational risk product: Nasdaq BWise
The vendor, a leader in the governance, risk and compliance space, scores with rapid deployment solutions
Best risk analytics tool, Best stress testing product and Best overall product: The Analytics Boutique
OpCapital Analytics has been implemented at 10 institutions, including banks and insurance companies
Best market surveillance product: Ancoa
The London-based provider has applied itself to the specificities of fixed-income, currencies and commodities over the past year
Consultancy of the year: PwC
PwC goes back to basics to simplify how clients approach risk management
Paper of the year: PJ de Jongh, Tertius de Wet, Kevin Panman and Helgard Raubenheimer
South African academics pioneer a quick and easy way of estimating op risk capital
Insurer of the year: MassMutual
US life insurer makes strides in op risk with corporate culture and IT
FVC analysis: stress testing worst-of autocalls
Dual- or triple-index products offer higher potential gains but carry increased risk
Best group: Pictet Asset Management
Pictet has developed a unique hedge fund unit within its asset management business
Outstanding contribution to the industry: Martin Lueck and Anthony Todd, Aspect Capital
The co-founders of Aspect Capital have seen the rise and fall of trends and markets, while adapting to changes
Best investor relations team: Old Mutual Global Investors
OMGI's award-winning investor relations team sees its remit as far more than just investors
Lifetime achievement: David Anderson
Since the early 1970s, David Anderson has been key in the European hedge fund industry
Best new hedge fund: Elementa (Elementa Management)
Deep research and a careful strategy has delivered impressive returns for Elementa