How to enter
How to enter
Award Guidelines
The Risk Technology Awards (RTAs), focus on ALM, credit, operational risk and enterprise risk. Entries are now open, submission deadline February 28.
Methodology:
The RTAs are decided by a panel of judges, selected by the editors of Risk.net. The panel includes technology users, risk management practitioners, analysts and members of the editorial team.
Judges are asked to recuse themselves from any category in which they have a conflict, or from scoring categories where they have little experience.
How to enter:
Entrants in ERM & regulation, operational risk, and credit risk categories must complete the following questions:
- How do you meet the industry's needs in this category? (400 words)
- What differentiates you from other vendors? (400 words)
- How has your product/service changed over the past 12 months? (800 words)
- In your field, which specific risks do you expect to climb the agenda over the next 12 months, and why? (Or, if more appropriate, how do you expect customer needs to change over the next 12 months, and why?) (600 words)
Entrants in in-house systems categories must complete the following questions:
- What needs is your solution intended to meet, and how is it performing? (600 words)
- How has your solution changed over the past 12 months? (800 words)
- How does it improve on prior approaches, or on available third-party solutions? (800 words)
Any entry that does not directly answer the required questions will be excluded. Testimonials from named clients are not compulsory, but are always valued by the judging panel and can make the difference in close decisions. Candidates are free to submit additional material in support of their entries - presentations, product brochures, technical specifications, white papers etc. - using the document upload function on entry forms.
Who can enter:
Each category relates to a broad industry need. Any firm with a product or service that attempts to meet that need is eligible to enter. We deliberately do not provide tight eligibility criteria, or seek to use existing vendor market segments.
New for 2025: in-house systems categories are open to banks, insurers, asset managers and other market participants that have built proprietary risk technology. These systems may be used exclusively by the firm, or may have been made available to clients (commercially or not). The candidate must be able to show substantial development work on this technology within the past 12 months.
In some cases, judges may decide a particular nominee is better suited for a category other than the one that was originally entered. Judges may move entries from one category to another at their discretion.