Awards & Rankings
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Low-Latency Trading Network—CFN Services
Topics such as underground fiber and microwaves connecting market centers have caught the public’s imagination of late, although the average person is still oblivious to how much trading information is being zapped across nations in milliseconds. For CFN…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
It’s hard to think of many industry issues in recent years that have rallied a level of widespread interest and support as the investment book of record (IBOR). The technology behind IBOR isn’t particularly new—indeed, documented examples of these…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—Essentia Analytics
It’s tough being a start-up in the financial services industry, regardless of how great one’s products or services might be, the extent of one’s seed capital, or the depth of intellectual capital and experience one’s principals might possess. This is a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—ITG
While transaction-cost analysis (TCA) as a concept has been around the capital markets for a long time, the technologies supporting such functions have never had to be as rich or sophisticated as they do now. Buy-side clients expect not only basic…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—StatPro
It’s easy to forget that StatPro won the award for best newcomer for its Revolution product only three years ago. Mature beyond its years, StatPro has rapidly established itself with investment managers by taking advantage of its relative youth to evolve…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2014—Eze Software Group
The final category of the 31 on offer at this year’s awards, and the second to be announced at the November 7 awards luncheon in London, is that of the technology provider of the year. This category was decided by the four Waters journalists, and, like…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Product for 2014—Vermilion Software
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists where all of the previous 29 category winners were considered as potential recipients goes to London-based client reporting specialist Vermilion. By winning this category—one of only two…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
London-based Vermilion Software created a bit of history by winning the best implementation category in this year’s awards, making it the first entrant to win this category more than once. The fact that Vermilion’s two wins come in consecutive years…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Client Reporting Platform—Vermilion Software
Transparency, compliance, data integrity, scalability, and accuracy are among the reasons why buy-side firms need to get their client reporting—and especially the applications underpinning their client-reporting activities—right. But fit-for-purpose…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—Eagle Investment Systems
First introduced to the line-up in 2012, the best outsourcing provider category has never had a back-to-back winner. Fittingly, like a firm going through a series of vendors looking for the right solution, no company has held the top spot for more than a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best CEP Platform—Deltix
In the brief history of the best complex-event processing (CEP) platform category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards, One Market Data has ruled the roost, winning two of the three years since the category’s inception in 2011. This year, Deltix has knocked…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—Rimes Technologies
“Dominant” is probably the best adjective to describe Rimes Technologies’ relationship with the best data provider category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards. The New York-based vendor is undefeated since the category’s inception in 2007, making this the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuation Service—Markit
It might not be a complete sweep, but Markit’s success in the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ best pricing/valuation service category is about as close as one can get. For the fifth straight year and for the seventh time in eight years, Markit’s Pricing and…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—S3 Partners
The best buy-side newcomer category has, since the inaugural BST Awards back in 2007, been the toughest to win by virtue of the entry numbers it attracts—on average between 15 and 20 each year. This year is no different with a total of 17 entries. Past…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit
How does one stay on top of their game? Markit EDM might be best suited to answer that question, although Rimes Technologies might also have some advice on that topic, given that both firms remain undefeated in their respective categories since the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform/Service—Electra Information Systems
It’s been a busy few years for Electra Information Systems. From a large-scale implementation with AQR—covered extensively by Waters in 2013—through to forming an alliance with Eagle Investment Systems and hiring a new COO in the form of Scott Rhodes,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Bloomberg
In this perennially close-fought category, Bloomberg has emerged as the top provider of integrated-front-office technology for the second straight year, thanks to its Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) platform. With this win, the vendor gains…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform—Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (TT) is once again at the head of the commodities class with its sixth victory in this category, after being beaten to the title by Misys last year. Chicago-based TT’s flagship offering, X_Trader, has proven its worth by pairing the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side OMS—Bloomberg
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards will be remembered for a number of firsts: it’s the first year that the investment book of record (IBOR), data analytics, and low-latency trading network categories have been on offer; there were first-time winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side EMS—Portware
An execution-management system (EMS) is vital to buy-side firms with advanced execution criteria and this category has been shared by a number of providers in recent years. Portware finishes on top for the second time in three years, supplanting Eze…
Scrumptious Takeaways From the BST Awards
Wrapping up a great affair in Mayfair.
BST Awards 2014 - All the Winners
Final two category winners are Vermilion Software and Eze Software Group.
Finalists Announced for the American Financial Technology Awards 2014
The following firms, projects, teams and individuals have made the shortlists of the 16 categories that make up this year's American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) 2014.
American Financial Technology Awards 2014 Extension
We will be extending the deadline for entry into this year's American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) by one week, until Friday, October 17, 2014. The site will close at midnight, October 18.