Awards & Rankings
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side — Thomson Reuters
That's three in a row for Thomson Reuters in this category.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side Trading Network — BT
The BT Radianz Cloud is 15 years old.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side — Broadridge Financial Solutions
The Lake Success, NewYork-based firm has also established itself as a leading business-process outsourcing provider through its Managed Services division.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product — Nasdaq
In last year’s Waters Rankings awards, Nasdaq also took home the award for best market surveillance provider.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative — TradingScreen
In April 2015, TradingScreen announced the launch of its Market Surveillance Tool.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side — Bloomberg
Bloomberg addresses reporting with its trade order management solutions (TOMS) and sell-side execution & order management solutions (SSEOMS).
Winners’ Circle: MSCI — Collaboration and Commitment
MSCI won the coveted best sell-side market risk product category at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its RiskManager offering.
Waters Rankings 2016: Entry Deadline Extended by a Week
Entries to this year's Rankings are online only and the deadline, which has been extended by a week, is the end of business (EST), May 6.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016 ─ All the Winners
Waters and WatersTechnology are proud to announce the winners of this year's SST Awards, held in New York on Thursday, April 21.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Entries Extended by a Week
Entries to this year's SST Awards have been extended by a week and will now close at the end of business (EST) Friday, February 26.
The Perfect Award Submission
How to craft an entry for the Sell-Side Technology awards that will stand out.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Entries Close Friday February 19
Entries to this year's SST Awards are due to close at the end of business (EST) this coming Friday, February 19.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016 Open for Entries
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016, WatersTechnology's fourth annual awards focusing on the third-party technology industry serving the sell side, are open for entries.
The AFTAs 2015 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York. Here are this year's winners with write-ups about why they won.
AFTAs 2015: Best Compliance Initiative—State Street Global Exchange
GX Compliance platform boasts a flexible rules engine, combined with data and resolution-management tools to provide a fully auditable control process.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Buy Side—John Marcante, Vanguard
Marcante has spent over two decades at Vanguard, serving in various roles.
AFTAs 2015: Best Technology Executive, Sell Side—Oliver Bussmann, UBS
Bussmann has nearly 15,000 followers on Twitter and has fully embraced social media.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Team—Morgan Stanley
The Fusion Center enables a deeper level of monitoring across the bank’s entire enterprise by leveraging new technologies and tools to correlate data in innovative ways.
AFTAs 2015: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank by Appointment (BBA) and Click-to-Dial functionality represent the pinnacle of BofA’s efforts in the space.
AFTAs 2015: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Electronifie
The alternative trading system (ATS) is also anonymous, all-to-all, and focused on blocks rather than odd lots.
AFTAs 2015: Best OTC Trading Initiative—Convergex
The ultimate result of streamlining requests for quotes (RFQs) means that a formerly manual process that could take upwards of five minutes to complete is halved.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Integration Initiative—Fidelity Investment Management
FIMT has eliminated 90 percent of redundant data movement through its integration initiative.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—Morgan Stanley
The need for legging should only grow as more electronification in fixed income is adopted in coming years.
AFTAs 2015: Best Data Management Initiative—JP Morgan Chase
Officials at JPMorgan say the platform’s greatest strength is its ability to make high-volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption across the business.