Awards & Rankings
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Enterprise Data Management Systems Provider — Bloomberg PolarLake
It is no secret that large portions of the third-party technology vendor community have grown through acquisition as the market has evolved and matured—after all, it is cheaper, more time efficient, and significantly faster to market to buy an existing…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Transaction-Cost Analysis System Provider — ITG
ITG, a New York-based agency brokerage and capital markets technology provider, follows up its success in the transaction-cost analysis (TCA) category in last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards by winning the corresponding category in this year’s Waters…
Waters Rankings 2014: Oded Weiss, Multifonds
Timothy Murray speaks with Oded Weiss, CEO of Multifonds, at the Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2014: Ranjan Singh, IPC
Timothy Murray speaks with Ranjan Singh of IPC at the 2014 Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider — Thomson Reuters
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC’s) corporate actions solution has won this category for the past three years, including last year after it had been bought by Markit. But for this year, the torch has been passed to Thomson Reuters with its…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
For three years in a row, Waters’ readers have chosen Thomson Reuters’ reference data over Bloomberg, the Rankings’ previous winner. An originator, consolidator and redistributor of security and financial instrument data, Thomson Reuters provides access…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider — Thomson Reuters
Make it five wins in a row for Thomson Reuters and Elektron Real Time in the best low-latency data feed provider category, and the third consecutive year that the data giant has captured both this and the best reference data provider awards.
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Data Analytics Provider — S&P Capital IQ
Created in 2010 from the merger of the research, analytic and strategic capabilities of Standard & Poor’s and Capital IQ, S&P Capital IQ has established itself to such an extent in its relatively short life that this year it becomes the first ever…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Market Risk Solution Provider — SunGard
While credit risk has rightfully gained its share of the risk management spotlight after the implementation of Basel III and also in the wake of the global financial crisis, where so many well-established and previously blemish-free financial…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best AML Compliance Solution Provider — NICE Actimize
If anyone had any doubt whatsoever about the need to have an effective anti-money laundering (AML) compliance regime in place, the past few years will have put that to rest. One need look no further than three recent examples where financial services…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Complex Event Processing Solution Provider — Software AG
Few names are as synonymous with a single technology as Apama has become with complex-event processing (CEP). From its beginnings in 1999, the platform has changed hands over the years, most recently passing into the control of German giant Software AG,…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider — Numerix
A strong reputation among Waters readers is built on a mix of attributes, both established and new, and for 2014 this mix perfectly describes yet another win for New York-based risk management specialist Numerix in the best credit risk solution provider…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Reporting System Provider — Eze Software Group
There is little doubt that since the global financial crisis of 2008, capital markets firms, both on the sell side and the buy side, have been scrutinizing their vendor relationships, not only with the view to consolidating functionality and minimizing…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Market Surveillance Provider — Nasdaq OMX
Given the complexity of modern markets and the penalties for regulatory infractions, it’s impossible to ignore the need for a competent market surveillance system. Just going through the motions won’t work, however, and the need for sophisticated, cross…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
At first blush, a single-dealer trading platform with aggregation capabilities would seem like an astonishingly simple idea. And yet, it’s at the conceptual level where any simplicity ends, and the long, hard technology work begins. For that reason, the…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider — IPC
Traders at top-tier firms today need it all—good degrees from the best universities, impeccable work records and excellent references, a proven ability to perform under pressure, and the ability to pick up the telephone. The last point may seem redundant…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Accounting System Provider — Multifonds
Luxembourg has developed a banking industry whose scope goes well beyond its modest population of little more than half a million people. Its success can be traced in part to cross-border fund administration serving many European markets, a sector for…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Mobile Solutions Provider — Morningstar
One of the most exciting—albeit challenging at times—enhancements to the trading landscape has been the introduction of tablet devices and, specifically, the Apple iPad. Traders, portfolio managers and even compliance officers are increasingly looking to…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Network Provider — SunGard
Some technology providers do one small thing extremely well, and that narrow precision guides them to immense success. But if there is one category in the financial services industry where just the opposite is required, it’s network connectivity, which…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Datacenter Provider — Equinix
Scale might be important, but for large numbers of financial services organizations, doing it on their own is too costly a prospect, particularly when it comes to datacenters. The modern facilities used by both buy-side and sell-side firms are demanding…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider — BT
It took a while for the cloud to percolate through the collective filter of the financial services industry. Treated with suspicion at first, the idea eventually refined itself through discussion and application into a workable model for many firms, but…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Cloud-Based Services Provider — Eze Castle Integration
Eze Castle Integration has come a long way since it was spun off from Eze Castle Consulting in 2000, with its flagship offering winning the award for the best cloud-based services provider in this year’s Waters Rankings, ahead of the higher-profile BT…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: IPC
After winning the best trading floor communications system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings for its Unigy platform, we caught up with IPC’s vice president of product management, Ranjan Singh, to talk about global deployments, the focus on…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Bloomberg
In this year’s Waters Rankings, Bloomberg won three categories—best sell-side OMS provider, best portfolio management system provider, and best EDM system provider. James Rundle speaks to the heads of those three business units about their technologies,…