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FOW Awards for Innovation Part 2: banks, brokers and IT firms

18 December 2009

The final stage of FOW's Awards for Innovation 2009 comprises two global awards: one for banks, brokers and FCMs; and one for IT and software companies.

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Like the Awards for Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Law Firms we published in November, these Awards recognise not the best firms in particular sectors, but specific innovations that have improved the futures and options markets.

This time, there are just two awards – one for the Best Innovation by a Bank, Broker or Futures Commission Merchant in the Field of Customer Service, and one for the Best Innovation by an IT or Software Company.

We kept these until last because they were the most hotly contested, with a large number of entries, putting considerable demands on our panel of judges – all senior derivatives professionals around the world.

And because of the strong field for each award, we have published not just the winners, but the second and third-placed innovations as well.

FOW would like to thank our expert judges, who lent their time and expertise so generously, and all...


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