This award is designed to award exchanges that offer the widest range of products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. As well as the exchange’s range of instruments, the judges will also consider the quality of each exchange’s technology platform, as well as its ability to innovate and meet customer need.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in CTA clients
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Description of future development possibilities
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a bank-owned FCM that has best demonstrated a consistent high-level of service and expertise across the whole of its organisation. Success in this category depends on illustrating strength across all of the FCM’s core areas of activity, as well as a commitment to innovation and excellent customer service.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Description of high-level of client service and innovation
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour the best independent FCM. Success in this category depends on demonstrating how technical expertise, use of technology and excellent customer service have benefited clients and enabled the FCM to effectively compete against larger players in this field.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Description of high-level of client service
• Examples of how a new or existing service has added to user experience of clients
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour the FCM, third-party marketing organisation or platform that has shown the greatest commitment and aptitude in capital introduction and capital raising. Success in this category depends on demonstrating how, via investor contacts and cap intro events, the provider has been able to aid client attempts to meet relevant and active investors.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Description of high-level of client service and innovation in the field of cap intro
• Examples of portfolio of capital introduction events
• Demonstrate breadth and quality of investor contacts
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to platforms that have provided top quality service to their managed futures and CTA strategy clients in offering them regulatory and compliance support. Success in this category depends on a mixture of client and revenue growth, new products, tools or brand developments that demonstrated new thinking and have been well received by the sector and top-class client service standards.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Sales/market share figures (CTA/managed futures only business)
• Demonstration of product innovation and description of how the market responded positively to the idea
• Description of future development possibilities
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to reward consultancy firms that have demonstrated expertise and innovation in providing CTAs/managed future fund clients with key regulatory compliance advice. Success in this category depends on a mixture of demonstrating customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing how new initiatives and compliance products have aided the business over the past 12 months.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in CTA/managed futures fund clients
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Detail specific examples of where advice has helped clients
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a firm that has provided an excellent service as a vendor of remote storage and cloud technology solutions for CTAs/managed futures funds. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of how service provision has been able to improve the data storage,back testing, disaster recovery and business continuity needs of the sector.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in CTA/managed futures fund clients
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a firm that has provided a best-in-class IT infrastructure solution for the CTA/quant fund sector. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of how service provision has improved the business of clients.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Detail specific examples of how this has helped clients
• Description of high-level of client service
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a managed account or other distribution platform that has proved itself over the past 12 months via client growth and growing assets. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of innovation, diversification and solid performance.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Sales/market share figures (CTA/quant fund related business only)
• Demonstration of product innovation and description of how the market responded positively to the idea
• Description of future development possibilities
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a firm that has provided an excellent service as a provider of outsourced cyber-security solutions for the managed futures sector. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of how the service has been able to heighten the cyber-security of a client or clients.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in CTA fund clients
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Description of high-level of client service
• Examples of how the security solution has made a difference to clients
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This accolade is designed to honour the firm that provides the most genuinely comprehensive, innovative and useful data to CTAs and managed futures funds. Success in this category depends on demonstrating how useful the information is to clients, how easy it is to leverage and render into bespoke reports and the efficiency of the delivery mechanism.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Description of high-level of client service
• Examples of how a new or existing service has added to user experience of clients
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a firm that has demonstrated a genuine ability to manage the media and reputational profile of CTA/managed futures clients. Success in this category depends on demonstrating customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing how advice has represented the best interests of clients.

Criteria:

• Demonstration of client numbers and client wins over the last 12 months
• Specific examples of where advice has aided a client
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour a search firm that has best demonstrated an ability to meet the needs of CTAs and managed futures funds in the recruitment of quantitative roles including data scientists, technologists, programmers, risk managers, researchers and analysts.

Criteria:

• Industry perception
• Track record of placements and appointments over the course of the 12 month judging period
• Growth of the recruitment business in revenue and clients
• Service innovation

This award is designed to reward administration firms who have made advances in providing middle and back office services to CTAs and managed futures clients. Success in this category depends on providing examples on how a middle/back-office service has grown in customers and revenue, innovated via product and ideas and helped to reduce operational risk.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Sales/market share figures
• Demonstrate how the service has made advance in one or several of the following areas:
• Trade capture and confirmation
• Reconciliation
• Risk reporting and analysis
• System of record maintenance
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to reward CTA audit specialists that have shown growth and excellent customer service over the past 12 months. Success in this category depends on a mixture of customer and revenue growth, as well as product or brand development that demonstrated new thinking and which can boast significant success and positive customer feedback.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Sales/market share figures
• Demonstration of product innovation and description of how market responded to the idea
• Description of future development possibilities
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to reward trading platforms that have shown growth and innovation in providing traders, portfolio and risk managers with the ability to execute trades, manage their portfolio and make real-time decisions. Success in this category depends on a mixture of customer and revenue growth, as well as product or brand development that demonstrates new thinking and which can boast significant success and positive customer feedback.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in CTA/quant fund clients
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Description of future development possibilities
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour the firm that has demonstrated a consistently high standard in providing legal services to the CTA sector. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both customer and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of innovation and where the service has made a real difference to clients.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Examples of key areas of recent advice and where this has made a difference
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials

This award is designed to honour the firm that has developed a suite of effective services particularly aimed at CTA start-ups. Success in this category depends on demonstrating both client and revenue growth, as well as detailing examples of where client advice has made a real difference to the direction of a new management firm.

Criteria:

• Commercial success and business growth
• Demonstration of increase in product and service
• Demonstration of product innovation
• Examples of key areas of recent advice and where this has made a difference
• Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials