Awards & Rankings
Most innovative market data project/initiative—firmfact
Firmfact automates market‑data contracts, invoices and entitlements for banks and asset managers. Its AI reads documents, matches invoices line‑by‑line and verifies licences with minimal keying.
IMD & IRD Awards 2026 winner’s interview—Smartstream
Smartstream wins Best reference data managed service at the IMD & IRD Awards 2026
Best reference data integration vendor—Gresham
Gresham’s AI-native EDM Suite combines data from disparate sources and systems and provides user-firms with a single point of integration across the data life cycle.
Best ESG data initiative—Bloomberg
Bloomberg’s Impact and Allocation dataset provides investors with a consistent means of assessing how proceeds are being deployed and what outcomes issuers report.
Best AI/machine learning data initiative—FactSet
FactSet unveiled its MCP server in December 2025, allowing secure, authorized access to the firm’s data from third‑party AI tools.
Best corporate actions data initiative—S&P Global Market Intelligence
MCA Plus consolidates specialist datasets, validation and operational oversight across five domains, reducing fragmented workflows and manual processes.
Best alternative data initiative—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Designed specifically for financial use-cases, ProntoNLP processes large quantities of information, and makes it actionable.
Best enterprise data management provider/vendor—Rimes
Rimes’ Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets transforms fragmented data, operations and workflows into decision-grade intelligence
Best corporate actions data provider—SIX
SIX has built extensive databases, broad asset-class coverage and a range of tools designed to help firms manage increasingly complex corporate actions workflows.
Best enterprise data management initiative—FINBOURNE Technology
FINBOURNE’s integrated platform, LUSID, connects buy-side firms’ front, middle and back offices, supporting a range of functions
IMD & IRD Awards 2026: All the winners and why they won
The 31 category winners of this year’s Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards
Waters Rankings 2026 winner’s interview—Rimes
Rimes’ president and CEO discusses the firm’s highly sought-after win
Waters Rankings 2026 winner’s interview—S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global’s Brandon Newland on this year’s Waters Rankings win
Waters Rankings 2026 winner’s interview—FundGuard
FundGuard’s CCO discusses the firm’s Best accounting system provider win in this year’s Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2026: Best credit risk solution provider—S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global Market Intelligence wins best credit risk solution provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its RatingsDirect product.
Asia Awards 2026: Best trading network—Liquidnet
Liquidnet wins best trading network in the 2026 Asia Awards.
Waters Rankings 2026: Best cloud-based application provider—Derivative Path
Derivative Path wins best cloud-based application provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its Derivative Path platform.
Waters Rankings 2026: Best cloud-based technology provider—SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent wins best cloud-based technology provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its SS&C Cloud Solutions: Genesis and Eclipse.
Waters Rankings 2026: Best network provider—Iress Trading and Market Data
Iress Trading and Market Data wins best network provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its Iress FIX Hub (IFH) platform.
Waters Rankings 2026: Best performance measurement and attribution system provider—FactSet
FactSet wins best performance measurement and attribution system provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its FactSet Performance Solutions (FPS).
Waters Rankings 2026: Best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider—S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global Market Intelligence wins best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider in the 2026 Waters Rankings for its S&P Capital IQ Pro product.