Awards & Rankings
Waters Rankings' Best Credit Risk Solution Provider: Numerix
1. Numerix 18% 2. Quantifi 13.1% 3. SunGard 11%
Waters Rankings' Best Risk Analytics Provider: Numerix
1. Numerix 32.4% 2. Interactive Data 16.7% 3. SunGard 12.1%
Waters Rankings' Best Trading Floor Communication System: IPC Systems
1. IPC Systems 30.6% 2. BT 27.6% 3. Siemens 9.7%
Waters Rankings' Best Datacenter Provider: BT
1. BT 35.1% 2. Equinix 24.8% 3. Verizon 13.1%
Waters Rankings' Best Network Provider: BT
1. BT 29.9% 2. Swift 13.5% 3. Verizon 12.3%
Waters Rankings' Best Data Grid Provider: IBM
1. IBM 34.8% 2. Oracle 20.1% 3. VMware 14.1%
Waters Rankings' Best Outsourcing Provider: IBM
1. IBM 24.3% 2. Accenture 19.2% 3. Infosys 9.6%
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2012: Entries Open Monday
The winners in this year's BST Awards will be announced on November 2 in London.
Waters Rankings 2012 ─ All the Winners
At a cocktail reception held in the iconic Empire State Building in New York, this year's Waters Rankings winners were announced.
Inside Market Data Hall of Fame: David Gershon, 'The Physicist'
David Gershon, founder and chief executive, SuperDerivatives
IRD Awards Winners Announced
Inside Reference Data announced the winners of its 2012 awards in New York on May 22.
Waters Rankings 2012 ─ Polling Opens
The Waters Rankings is back for its 10th year. Polling begins today and closes on May 25. Get your votes in now.
The Waters Rankings Are Approaching
Anthony provides a rundown of the Waters Rankings in advance of this year's awards.
The Market Data Oscars
The Inside Market Data awards celebrate their 10th year. Vote for your favorite vendors and nominate yourself in a range of call-for-entry categories.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
The American Financial Technology Awards, now in their seventh year, recognize financial technologists from the buy side, the sell side and market centers who inject innovation into the capital markets through technology. Waters salutes the 2011 winners.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Team: Barclays Capital
JUDGE’S COMMENT: Barclays PRS turns data across multiple asset class into meaningful information. It also seems to put that information in the hands of the right people ... and gives Barclays the ability to create new reports and distribute them with…
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best CIO: Catherine Bessant, Bank of America
JUDGE'S COMMENT: Bessant's diverse background provides an invaluable perspective for one who has to oversee the technology needs for a corporate, investment and retail banking institution.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Integration Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: It is a great innovation on the part of the staff to develop the Virtual Integration Architecture (VIA). I particularly like how this State Street technology effort led to reusable “process improvements and a project-governance approach.”
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best OTC Trading Initiative: JPMorgan
JUDGE'S COMMENT: This project was very challenging in terms of the business logic and integration it needed with various systems to create a single, consolidated statement for all cleared and bilateral asset classes.
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best Green IT Initiative: State Street
JUDGE’S COMMENT: This is a simple, yet effective solution that leaves lots of potential for the firm to make additional savings in other areas.