Awards & Rankings
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,…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Multifonds
Multifonds swept the vote in the best accounting system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings. We caught up with CEO Oded Weiss to talk about how the industry environment has improved in the last few years, the importance of data in modern…
Waters Rankings 2014: A Shot in the Arm
There is little doubt that the Waters Rankings were in need of a revamp, having remained in their original format since their launch in 2003. And so, after consulting Waters’ readers, we decided to add four new categories, and more significantly, change…
Waters Rankings 2014 ─ All the Winners
At a luncheon held on July 16 at the Hudson Hotel, New York City, the winners of the 2014 Waters Rankings were revealed.
Awards special report
June 2014
Waters Rankings 2014 ─ Voting Has Now Closed
Voting in this year's Waters Rankings has now closed.
IRD Awards Include Big Wins For Fenergo, Interactive Data
Fenergo and Interactive Data score big in the Inside Reference Data Awards, as Thomson Reuters recaptures one prize, and Markit is honored for humanitarian work
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Richard Bentley, Software AG
James Rundle, deputy editor, sell side of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Richard Bentley, vice president, financial services at Software AG about the firm's recent Sell-Side Technology Awards win.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: The Winners and Why They Won
In April, Waters unveiled the winners of the second annual Sell-Side Technology Awards, at a dinner event in Manhattan directly following the 2014 North American Trading Architecture Summit.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year — Markit
The technology provider of the year is traditionally the final category of both the Sell-Side Technology Awards and the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and is the second of only two awards announced at the dinner, decided by the Waters journalists. All of…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year — GoldenSource EDM Platform
There is only one company that has managed to trump the mighty Markit when it comes to the best data management product in either the Buy-Side Technology or Sell-Side Technology Awards. That company’s name is GoldenSource, and this is the year that it…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Trading Network — SunGard
Nobody has put their imprint on the two-year-old Sell-Side Technology Awards like SunGard. With so many types of technology on offer, SunGard has won more categories than anyone else—four—including the granddaddy prize of best sell-side technology…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative — Pershing
For banks, the ability to untether their workforce from their desks has become a key area of focus, especially when it comes to investment advisement. Pershing, through its NetExchange Mobile service, has aggressively rolled out new mobile functionality…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System — IPC
Having produced over half the world’s trading turrets, IPC is synonymous with communication technology in the financial sector. Between Alliance MX and Unigy, its two primary offerings, it claims installation at 2,600 sites with 118,000 users. More than…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side — BT Radianz
The word “infrastructure” can mean different things to different people. But while the specifics can be contested—hardware, software, or something in between—the basic principle of infrastructure is its ability to provide a backbone for any organization…