The shortlist for the FOW Awards for Asia 2015 has been announced and can be found below. 

Winners will be unveiled at the FOW Awards for Asia Gala Dinner on 23 September after the FOW Trading Singapore event.

For more information on the Awards Gala Dinner, contact hseidenberg@fow.com (Asia, Europe, ROW) or nberkland@karengleason.com (Americas). 

For more information and to register for FOW Trading Singapore 2015, visit www.fowevents.com.  

Congratulations to all our shortlisted firms. 

Exchanges and CCPs

EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR

Singapore Exchange

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

Dalian Commodity Exchange

Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange

 

EMERGING EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR

Borsa Istanbul

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives

China Financial Futures Exchange

Thailand Futures Exchange

 

BEST TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION BY AN EXCHANGE

National Stock Exchange of India – Surveillance system

DGCX – BSO Networks partnership

HKEx – Orion Market Data Platform

Thailand Futures Exchange – new trading and clearing systems

 

CLEARINGHOUSE OF THE YEAR

Singapore Exchange

National Securities Clearing Corporation

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

LCH.Clearnet

 

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF THE YEAR FOR ASIA

London Metal Exchange

Eurex

CME Group

Intercontinental Exchange

 

MOST INNOVATIVE NEW CONTRACT

- Equities

SSE 50 Index – China Financial Futures Exchange

JPX/OSE – JPX-Nikkei Index 400

Taifex Link – Eurex Exchange and the Taiwan Futures Exchange

 

- Interest rates

China Financial Futures Exchange - 10 year treasury bonds

National Stock Exchange of India – 10 year GOI

Bombay Stock Exchange – 10 year GOI

 

- Commodities

Dalian Commodity Exchange – Corn Starch

Singapore Exchange – TSI Coking Coal

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange – Methanol

 

- Metals

Shanghai Futures Exchange – Nickel Cathode

Shanghai Futures Exchange – Tin

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing – Mini LME contracts

 

- Currency 

Borsa Istanbul – USD/TRY

Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange – USD/INR

Singapore Exchange – USD/CNH

 

Banks and brokers

BANK OF THE YEAR

Citi

DBS Bank

UOB

JP Morgan

 

NON-BANK FCM OF THE YEAR

Yuanta Futures

ED&F Man

KGI Ong

Phillip Futures

 

CHINESE FCM OF THE YEAR

Haitong Futures

Galaxy Futures

China Merchant Futures 

 

EMERGING MARKET BROKER OF THE YEAR

Yuanta Futures

RHB

Kenanga Deutsche

Globlex Securities

 

Technology

BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT

- Post-trade reconciliation

SmartStream

Duco

Omgeo

 

- Clearing

Quantifi

Calypso

Traiana

 

- Trade reporting

Message Automation

Catena's TRACE

EZE Software

 

- Risk management

Quantifi

Fincad

TradingScreen

 

- Trading and execution

Trading Technologies

Allocated Bullion Solutions

Numerix

 

- Collateral management

SmartStream

Quantifi

Calypso

 

- Market surveillance

Nasdaq Smarts

National Stock Exchange of India – Surveillance system

Software AG Apama

 

DATA CENTRE OF THE YEAR

KVH

Equinix

Pacnet

 

TRADING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR

- Buy-side

Trading Technologies – TT

TradingScreen

Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager

 

- Sell-side

Nomura Research Institute – I-Star

Trading Technologies - TT

Fidessa 

Editor's choice award

A special award chosen by our editor recognising a key achievement in the industry over the past year.

Lifetime achievement award

More details to be announced shortly