2012 FStech Awards: winners announced

Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Hastings Direct and Barclaycard/Orange were among the winners at the 2012 FStech Awards.

The event, now into its twelfth year, was held last night at the Lancaster London Hotel.

A full review will appear in the March/April issue of FStech (available mid-April). But for now, here's how the night panned out:

Best use of customer communications and social networking technology

Deutsche Bank

eToro OpenBook

Lloyds Banking Group

WINNER: eToro OpenBook

Best use of IT in retail banking


Deutsche Bank (FinTS platform)

Lloyds Banking Group (Digital Banking Information Technology Division)

Nationwide Building Society

Royal Bank of Scotland

WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group (Digital Banking Information Technology Division)

Best use of IT in wholesale & investment banking

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

BNP Paribas

Deutsche Bank (Sales & Research IT)

Ecobank

Evercore Partners International

Lloyds Banking Group (DiSCO Project)

Lloyds Banking Group (Wholesale Banking & Markets)

Royal Bank of Scotland

WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group (DiSCO Project)

BNP Paribas – HIGHLY COMMENDED

Best use of technology in customer service


Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Deutsche Bank (Card Products)

Domestic and General Services

Lloyds Banking Group

Royal Bank of Scotland

WINNER: Royal Bank of Scotland

Domestic and General Services – HIGHLY COMMENDED

Best trading system


Bank Leumi

Credit Suisse

eToro

Royal Bank of Scotland

WINNER: Royal Bank of Scotland

Best use of IT in insurance


Admiral

DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company

The Partnership Group of Companies

WINNER: DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company

Best use of CRM technology


Bank Hapoalim

Callcredit

Credit Suisse

WINNER: Bank Hapoalim

Best use of e-commerce


BNP Paribas

Deutsche Bank

LCH. Clearnet - SwapClear

Skrill (Moneybookers)

WINNER: Skrill (Moneybookers)

Best use of mobile


Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Barclaycard/Orange

BNP Paribas

Deutsche Bank

J.P. Morgan Investment Bank

Lloyds Banking Group

MoneYou

RBSMobile

WINNER: J.P. Morgan Investment Bank

Anti-fraud/security strategy of the year


Bank of America Merrill Lynch

The Co-operative Bank

Credit Suisse

Hastings Direct

Lloyds Banking Group

WINNER: Hastings Direct

Compliance project of the year


LCH. Clearnet - SwapClear

Lloyds Banking Group

Kent Reliance

WINNER: LCH. Clearnet - SwapClear

Systems integration project of the year


Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Credit Suisse Plus

Deutsche Bank

LCH. Clearnet - SwapClear

Lloyds Banking Group (Payments Integration Project)

Nationwide Building Society

State Street Global Advisors

WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group (Payments Integration Project)

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank – HIGHLY COMMENDED

Best use of networking/cabling


Close Premium Finance

Hastings Direct

National Australia Group Europe (NAGE)

Thomson Reuters

WINNER: Hastings Direct

Outsourcing partnership of the year


Jefferies & Co. Wealth Management/CAIS

Lloyds Banking Group ADM Quality Assurance Team/Cognizant

Lloyds Banking Group, Wholesale Banking and Markets/HP

National Australia Group Europe (NAGE)/BT

Old Mutual Wealth Management/HCL

PayLife Bank/SIX Card Solutions

WINNER: PayLife Bank/SIX Card Solutions

Jefferies & Co. Wealth Management/CAIS – HIGHLY COMMENDED

Payments innovation of the year


The Absa Group/CashSend

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Barclaycard/Orange

Skrill (Moneybookers)

WINNER: Barclaycard/Orange

Datacentre excellence award


Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Equinix

Lloyds Banking Group/Wholesale Banking and Markets

Thames River Capital

WINNER: Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Green IT initiative of the year


JPMorgan Chase & Co

Lloyds Banking Group

Royal Bank of Scotland

WINNER: Lloyds Banking Group

IT team of the year


Credit Suisse

Deutsche Bank

Hastings Direct

Lloyds Banking Group (Colleague IT Service Desk)

WINNER: Hastings Direct

Lloyds Banking Group (Colleague IT Service Desk) – HIGHLY COMMENDED

Cloud computing innovation of the year


BT Unified Trading over the BT Radianz Cloud

Eze Castle Integration

George Hay/Rise

NYSE Technologies

Portware

Thomson Reuters

WINNER: BT Unified Trading over the BT Radianz Cloud

Risk management software of the year


Credit Suisse Securites (Europe)

Distribution Technology

ITRS Group

MSM Risk Management

PensionsFirst

SunGard

Quantifi

Quartet FS

Worters Kluwer Financial Services

WINNER: PensionsFirst

Most innovative product of the year


Actiance

Artificial Solutions

BT Global Banking & Financial Markets

CarryQuote

Fidessa

Fundtech

Platform Black Invoice Trading

SunGard

WINNER: Artificial Solutions

Technology provider of the year


BT Group

Cyber-Ark Software

Fabric Technologies

Infosys

MicroStrategy

MobileIron

Solarflare

Thunderhead

WINNER: MobileIron

Barry Holland Memorial Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement


Neira Jones, Head of Payments Security, Barclaycard

Cindy Murray, Managing Director, Treasury Mgmt Product Exec, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Lesley White, Managing Director, Treasury Mgmt Product Exec, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

WINNER: Cindy Murray, Managing Director, Treasury Mgmt Product Exec, Bank of America Merrill Lynch


Employee's choice award

WINNER: Deutsche Bank

Overall winner


WINNER: Royal Bank of Scotland

Further info on the awards at: http://www.fstech.co.uk/awards

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