Awards & Rankings
Best Overall Data/Service Provider: SIX Financial Information
IRD/IMD Awards 2017
IMD/IRD Awards 2017—All the Winners and Highlights from the Evening
On the 15th anniversary of Inside Market Data's first US conference, 20 companies shared the spoils in more than 25 award categories.
Waters Rankings 2017: Voting Closes Today ─ Friday, June 9, 2017
This year we have 30 categories, including two new ones: Best Outsourcing Service Provider and Best Artificial Intelligence Technology Provider.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: FRTB in the Sell-Side Spotlight
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017, held on the evening of April 5 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, were notable for two reasons: FRTB, or the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, featured across the number of different categories and in no…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform—Fidessa
Fidessa has positioned itself as a leader in execution platforms for over 20 years, providing access to 220 markets for more than 300 sell-side firms, globally. The London-based vendor’s dominance in a perennially competitive category is reflected by it…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative—Dealogic
Dealogic wins this year’s best sell-side mobile initiative award, the third company to win the category since 2013. Dealogic , the London-based vendor’s mobile app, was launched in April 2016. Erik Anderson, Cortex product head at Dealogic, says Dealogic…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool—Broadway Technology
Broadway Technology made its first appearance at the Sell-Side Technology Awards in this category last year and has returned to reclaim its title as the best smart order routing provider. The key to the product’s success lies in its flexibility—it is an…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment—OpenFin
New York-based OpenFin holds onto its crown in the best sell-side web-based development environment category in this year’s SST Awards, fighting off tough competition with its Chromium-based desktop operating layer that has been enthusiastically adopted…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology—Digital Reasoning
While the artificial intelligence (AI) category is new to the Sell-Side Technology Awards lineup, it is reasonable to expect it to be a staple for as long as this program continues to run. The inaugural winner is Franklin, Tennessee-based, Digital…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Alliance or Partnership—Nasdaq & Digital Reasoning
What do you get when you combine the best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider with the best market surveillance provider from the same awards? Well, you get the winner of this year’s best alliance category award—the first time this category…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—Synechron
There is no shortage of distributed-ledger technology (DLT) projects across the capital markets. Seemingly, every firm in the space has thrown its hat into the ring, working on some type of offering either internally, through a consortium, or via a…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
The two final categories of this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards ─ best overall sell-side product for 2017 and best sell-side technology provider for 2017 ─ were won by Nasdaq and IHS Markit, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best use of the Agile Methodology—Synechron
This category, the first time it has been on offer in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, is awarded to a third-party technology vendor that has embraced the “early and often” release cadence synonymous with the Agile methodology, while also focusing its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Automated Trading Platform—FlexTrader
FlexTrade wins this year’s best automated trading platform category, an award it won at the first Sell-Side Technology Awards back in 2013. Since then, four different companies have won the award, but FlexTrade—with its FlexTrader platform—takes the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product—Numerix
Numerix maintains its crown among sell-side credit risk products, winning the best sell-side credit risk category for the fifth straight time in the Sell-Side Technology Awards. A vendor’s ability to hold its spot in the winners’ circle for that long…
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: Broadridge Retains its Outsourcing Crown
Victor Anderson speaks to Broadridge's Michael Alexander about various aspects of the firm's outsourcing business in the wake of its second consecutive win in the best outsourcing category at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: SmartStream Maintains its Reconciliations Dominance
SmartStream continued it domination of the reconciliations category at this year's SST Awards, thanks to its TLM Reconciliations Premium platform. Victor Anderson speaks to Rocky Martinez about what sets the offering apart in a highly competitive…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
Since the launch of the Sell-Side Technology Awards five years ago, there has been only one winner of the best cloud provider category—BT with its BT Radianz Cloud.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—AlphaPoint
Back in June 2016, Waters attended the sixth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, held at Bank of America’s One Bryant Park offices. One of the eight profiled startups on the day was Madison Avenue-based AlphaPoint, whose platform was…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—AlphaSense
No part of the capital markets is seeing more investment and innovation that the analytics sector. Trading firms are always looking to find new information sources and artificial intelligence has helped to improve those efforts as they try to find alpha…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product—IHS Markit
It may return to the Sell-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle with a slightly different name, but IHS Markit has again triumphed in the best sell-side data management product category. This year’s victory makes it four wins out of a possible five for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product—FIS
There is no questioning the importance of banks having a proper risk management platform in place. However, the January 1, 2019, implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) has made market risk platforms even more of a top-of-mind…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side—Thomson Reuters
On the day of the Brexit referendum, Thomson Reuters’ Elektron platform processed 30 billion live updates in 24 hours, while at the time of the result’s announcement they peaked at 10 million updates per second. In an era where data volumes are exploding…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System—Cloud9 Technologies
For the second straight year, it is Cloud9 Technologies taking home the best sell-side communication system award in what’s becoming an increasingly competitive category.