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Best Outsourcing Provider: Accenture

Although Accenture is better known for its high-end technology and systems integration work, its less glamorous outsourcing practice makes up more than 40 percent of the organization’s revenue and employs 80,000 employees. Considering the size of the...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

Best Back-Office Hardware: IBM

IBM offers a range of back-office hardware including disk storage for securing IT systems and data, and IBM smarter systems. The latter displays the kind of innovative thinking that helped Big Blue scoop first prize in the best back-office hardware provider...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Data Grid: IBM

Go to any risk management, low-latency trading and/or regulatory conference and you are likely to hear a common theme: What are we going to do with this influx of data? To address this data deluge, investment firms have turned in significant numbers to...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Hosting Provider: Equinix

Last year was the first time that the category for best hosting provider was up for grabs and Equinix didn’t make the top four. This year, though, Equinix finds itself in the number one spot. In May, Equinix completed its $683.4 million acquisition...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Trading Turret: IPC

By expanding its geographic reach and therefore the size of its networks, trading communication provider IPC Systems captured the industry’s attention in being named best trading turret provider in this year’s Waters Rankings. Most recently, IPC...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best CEP Solution: Sybase

The acquisition of financial industry operations software provider Sybase by German software company SAP, the third-largest software firm globally, passed muster with clients, as the company won the best complex-event processing (CEP) solution category—in...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Risk Analytics: Algorithmics

For the second straight year, Algorithmics has cleaned up in arguably the most competitive category in this year’s Rankings in the wake of the financial services downturn of 2008 and 2009. The win, however, wouldn’t come as much of a surprise to those...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Credit Risk Solution: Moody’s Analytics

New York-based Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., pulled off a small coup when it acquired Fermat, a provider of risk and performance software to the global financial industry, at the back end of 2008. Moody’s Analytics’ credit...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Market Risk Solution: FinAnalytica

Transparency and predictability—that is what FinAnalytica believes separates its offering from those of its competitors. After all, when it comes to risk, those are the two areas that regulators are scrutinizing when it comes to improvements. Through...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Counterparty Risk Management: SunGard

For the second straight year, SunGard has won the best counterparty risk management provider award in the Waters Rankings. This category was a new addition to last year’s rankings, reflecting the mounting concern by all types of trading organizations...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best AML Compliance Solution: Oracle MantasBest AML Compliance Solution: Oracle Mantas

For the fourth consecutive year, Oracle Mantas has emerged the winner in the best anti-money laundering solution provider (AML) category. The Oracle Mantas Behavior Detection Platform incorporates detection, prevention, investigation, and resolution functions...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Low-Latency Data Feed: Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters’ Elektron infrastructure for market data has been attracting trading venues and brokers since it was officially unveiled in mid-April this year. In tandem with a number of expanded features—in other data services—the provider was...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Corporate Actions Platform: SmartStream Technologies

SmartStream takes first place in this relatively new category, first introduced in 2008. Dependable, high-quality corporate actions solutions can be hard to come by, but SmartStream’s corporate actions solutions manage to do just that. Underpinned by...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Reference Data Solution: Bloomberg

Perhaps unsurprising given its ubiquity across all spectrums of the financial services industry, Bloomberg has dominated this relatively new category for the second successive year. Bloomberg Data License tracks more than 6 million financial instruments...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Best Enterprise Data Management: Sybase

Along with a complex event processing (CEP) offering—also a Waters Rankings 2010 winner—and a market-liquidity analysis service, financial industry operations software provider Sybase produces an enterprise data management system, known as RAP–The...

Waters | News | Awards & Rankings | 23 Aug 2010

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Events

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Inside Market Data Chicago

Start Date: 14 Sep 2010

End Date: 14 Sep 2010

Venue: Mid-America Club

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European Financial Information Summit

Start Date: 21 Sep 2010

End Date: 21 Sep 2010

Venue: To be confirmed

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Best Execution USA

Start Date: 06 Oct 2010

End Date: 06 Oct 2010

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