Risk Technology Awards - Categories
2026 Categories
A full list of this year’s categories can be found below. There is no detailed eligibility criteria. This is deliberate. 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. In some cases, judges may decide that 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.
For all categories, we appreciate that no firm is an island. If vendors want to pitch for an award in conjunction with a client; or with a provider of enterprise technology, these kinds of ‘partnership’ pitches would be welcome.
NOTE: We have added three new categories this year to reflect the important role that providers of enterprise technology – specifically cloud and AI providers – play in the development and provision of risk management technology. To avoid award numbers inflating, we have also cut three categories from last year’s line-up.
The in-house systems categories are now in their second year. They 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.
All of the risk type categories permit any kind of relevant application to be pitched. For example, the credit risk award could go to a tool that focuses on any of the following: default modelling, loan pricing, portfolio analytics, regulatory capital, stress testing and scenarios, etc. The same is true for the market risk, op risk, ALM, ERM, climate risk and model risk categories.