Awards & Rankings
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Mobile Solutions Provider — Morningstar
Morningstar pulled off something of a coup by winning what was unquestionably one of the most hotly contested of all the categories in this year’s Waters Rankings, given the current interest from all quarters of the industry in mobile communication.
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Full-Service Brokerage — JPMorgan
Traditionally, this is a category that has been dominated by Goldman Sachs, but the last two years have seen two different winners, with JPMorgan being named as the best full-service broker for 2013. Perhaps this shift is a sign of the challenging market…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider — Thomson Reuters
This win makes it four in a row for the data giant in this category. The last year has been marked by announcements of connections around the world for Elektron, which provides an infrastructure for low-latency market access. The global architecture…
Waters Rankings 2013 ─ All the Winners
At a cocktail reception held at rooftop event space 230 Fifth, this year's Waters Rankings winners were announced.
IMD Awards 2013: Bonnie Eshel, SuperDerivatives
Bonnie Eshel, head of market data at SuperDerivatives, speaks to Max Bowie of Inside Market Data at the 2013 Inside Market Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Tim Lind, Thomson Reuters
Tim Lind, global head of middle office, enterprise content at Thomson Reuters speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Philippe Chambadal, SmartStream
Philippe Chambadal, CEO of SmartStream, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Rui Carvalho, S&P Capital IQ
Rui Carvalho, managing director of enterprise solutions at S&P Capital IQ, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Bennett Egeth, Broadridge
Bennett Egeth, senior vice president at Broadridge, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
SST Awards 2013: A Leap of Faith
The inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, will be remembered for many things, not least because those in attendance were introduced to an American icon in the form of ex-Major…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ SunGard
Given recent events across the financial services industry, few aspects of trading infrastructure and process are of a higher profile than market surveillance. Firms face devastating consequences from failing to properly monitor their employees’ trading…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Numerix
As with the Buy-Side Technology Awards, all category-winning products were considered for this award, the penultimate category of the Sell-Side Technology Awards and one of only two announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in Times…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions
With all the fuss and attention that software receives, when it comes to fulfilling basic trading needs, people often overlook the humble telephone. No office can operate without one, and the specialized needs of a trading floor make it an essential…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Caplin Systems
Of all the categories of this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, the award for the best implementation takes more stock of a vendor’s ability to deliver on its promise than any other.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ IPC
Trading networks are an emergent, but fierce, area of competition in capital markets technology. From concentrated webs within co-located data centers through to global, continent-spanning interconnections that link participants across the buy and sell…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit EDM
That Markit EDM ─ previously known as Cadis before Markit acquired the London-based data management technology provider in June last year — extended its focus from its buy-side stronghold to the sell side, is hardly surprising. That extension of its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream
Moves away from discrete, siloed systems toward fully integrated single platforms, particularly across the back office, are at the forefront of sell-side institutions’ minds these days.