In its 10th year of publication, the financial services industry’s leading governance, operational risk and compliance publication, Incisive Media’s OpRisk & Compliance has issued 10 awards for initiatives and organisations for their significant contributions over the past decade to the discipline of operational risk management. RiskBusiness received the award as one of two outstanding solution providers. In the March issue (Volume 10, number 3), editor Ellen Davis explained the rationale for the awards: “We wanted to mark our 10th anniversary by celebrating the achievements of the operational risk industry. Amid the current financial and economic turmoil, it now seems more appropriate than ever to look back over how this discipline has evolved and changed over the past decade. The 10 awards … were given to organisations and initiatives that have consistently contributed to the development of the discipline over this period. It was rather difficult to work this down to just 10 - so many people, firms and vendors have contributed to the evolution of operational risk. The editorial staff had several meetings, and consulted industry experts to try to ensure those who were recognised were the crème de la crème. What is striking about all the winners of these special '10 years of excellence' awards, is just how unusual each of their achievements is. All the winners had considerable vision to embark on the courses of action they undertook, and were often far ahead of their peer group”.