Awards & Rankings
AFTAs 2013: Best Analytics Initiative—Credit Suisse
The common refrain when it comes to data is that it’s not just important to have it—one also needs to know what questions to ask it. Enter analytics, which has become a critically important aspect of financial technology over the past few years,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Risk Management Initiative—International Securities Exchange
Execution management systems (EMSs) abound in the institutional trading space, but combining them with risk management capabilities, thereby broadening their usage from the front to the middle office, is a powerful proposition. With PrecISE, the Deutsche…
AFTAs 2013: Best Global Deployment—Instinet
It is no secret that some of the most complex and laborious technology projects in the capital markets come on the back of mergers or acquisitions—necessary evils of participating in a constantly evolving industry. It is therefore not surprising that the…
The Champions: All the Award Winners from 2013
Waters looks back at all the winners of its various awards programs across WatersTechnology's five brands: Buy-Side Technology, Sell-Side Technology, Inside Market Data, Inside Reference Data and Waters magazine.
Waters Announces American Financial Technology Awards 2013 Winners
Tonight, Waters hosted the ninth annual American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2013—Eagle Investment Systems
By winning the most prestigious category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the second of two awards announced at the awards luncheon on November 1, Eagle Investment Systems created a little bit of history by becoming the first company to do so…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Winners' Circle—Eagle Investment Systems
With its second win in the best overall buy-side technology provider category, Eagle Investment Systems has proved once again that it is at the top of its game. John Lehner, Eagle’s president and CEO, talks to Waters about cloud on the buy side, what he…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2013—LCH.Clearnet
The penultimate category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the best buy-side product of the year, was the first of only two awards announced on the day of the BST Awards luncheon on November 1 in London. Each of the 26 individual category winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—ITG
This is only the second year of this category’s existence, but you wouldn’t guess it from checking all the transaction-cost analysis (TCA) products on offer in the market. It means any provider needs to go that much farther to stand out, especially since…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corporation
Big data is rapidly emerging as one of the more contentious terms in modern buy-side technology. Some people argue that it’s absolutely a new phenomenon; others contend that it’s always been there, and it’s just the relativistic levels of data compared…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative—LCH.Clearnet
The award bonanza for LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (Smart) continues thanks to a savvy partnership with the Bloomberg Professional Service, which has exposed it to potentially over 300,000 pairs of eyes. Bloomberg in August…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Microsoft
When you think of the term “cloud technology,” Microsoft is top-of-mind even for decidedly non-technologists. The buy side has only relatively recently come around to the idea of using cloud-based technologies to cut costs and save resources, even though…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
This is the fourth year that the best reconciliation platform or service category has been included in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and for the fourth straight year, SmartStream has taken home the award. The London-based vendor’s success can be…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best CEP Product—OneMarketData
OneMarketData returns to the winners’ circle this year in the complex-event processing (CEP) category, thanks to its OneTick offering, by making a case for its mastery over the continuously ballooning volume of data flooding investment firms, both…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side CRM Product—Digiterre
Digiterre couldn’t hold onto the customer relationship management (CRM) award after snagging it for the first time in 2010, but nor could Satuit or Advent, which won in 2011 and 2012, respectively. In the interim, Digiterre has added a series of modules…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
Only one category in the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards—the best implementation at a buy-side firm—specifically considers the practical implications of a third-party provider’s technology from an end-user’s perspective. This category, therefore, is…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The job of fund administration has become increasingly onerous as hedge funds are relying more and more on their administrators for regulatory compliance support. Form PF created a new reporting paradigm on the buy side, which has since expanded with…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—DealVector
Like penicillin, DealVector was born by random chance. Michael Manning went to Princeton and became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, while David Jefferds went there and became a dealer in structured credit. Decades later, the two found themselves on the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
Few names are more synonymous with buy-side block trading than Liquidnet. With an average execution size of 42,000 shares per transaction, and a combined $12 trillion in assets under management among its members, the 12-year-old network certainly has…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Linedata
As mentioned at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon on November 1, if any category could be described as ushering in a changing of the guard, it would be this one. After all, Fidessa has dominated this category every year since the inaugural…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Client-Reporting Platform—Equipos
Research firm Investit reports that three-quarters of all asset managers will put a focus on client reporting and information delivery this year. That effort brings with it a host of data management challenges, which Equipos, whose Coric Client…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SimCorp
SimCorp marks its first win in the portfolio accounting platform category this year, an area that has traditionally been dominated by industry stalwarts, Advent and Multifonds. This year in particular marks a validation for Dimension, SimCorp’s flagship…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product—Deltix
Algorithmic trading and direct market access (DMA) are big business, but they also carry big risks. There only needs to be a cursory scan of news reports from the past few years to see that algorithmic failures can be costly, both in terms of penalties…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Bloomberg
Bloomberg and Charles River Development have thrusted and parried back and forth in this category, seemingly alternating wins every year. Both have claimed the win three times in the category’s six years of existence. The judging panel determined that…