Awards & Rankings
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product — GoldenSource
Waters has written it before, but it’s worth noting again: Ask a decent-sized sample of CIOs from across the financial services industry what their biggest bug bear is, and you’re likely to hear something relating to their data—be that data cleanliness,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment — Caplin Systems
Caplin Systems has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in the industry over the past few years, having been an early mover in the adoption and evolution of HTML5 and its leading-edge applications developed specifically for the capital markets. With the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) — Markit
At first blush, it might seem strange that a vendor as ubiquitous as Markit would come away with the award for best newcomer in the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards. And yet this year, the vendor has done just that with its new integrated resource…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014 Winners' Circle: Software AG
Last year, Software AG acquired the Apama complex-event processing platform from Progress Software, a move that has done nothing to diminish the platform’s excellence in this field, underscored by another win in the best CEP platform category at this…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology — Software AG (Apama)
There was a time, perhaps two years ago, when wherever you looked, complex-event processing (CEP), the technology darling of the capital markets, stared right back at you. Now, however, like so many other technologies that are part and parcel of the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Rubbing Shoulders with the People’s Champion
This year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 15 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, witnessed a number of new firms in the winners’ circle, the upending of one of the financial technology industry’s most celebrated names,…
Batteries Not Included
Japanese exchanges and the Waters Rankings lead this week's coverage.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Geoff Patsch, Bloomberg
Anthony Malakian, US editor of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Geoff Patsch, global head of Bloomberg SSEOMS at the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Kirk Wylie, OpenGamma
Anthony Malakian, US editor of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Kirk Wylie, chairman and co-founder of OpenGamma, at the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards.
Waters Rankings 2014 Open for Entries
The Waters Rankings 2014, WatersTechnology’s only reader-determined awards, are now open for entries. As usual, entry to the 12th annual Waters Rankings is free and firms may enter as many categories as they wish, on the condition that they provide…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: The Winners
Waters magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Sell-Side Technology Awards. The Awards were held on Tuesday evening, April 15, at the Marriott Marquis in New York.
IMD/IRD Awards 2014 - Vote Now!
Voting for the 2014 Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards is now open at events.insidemarketdata.com/awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014 Now Open for Entries
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014 are now open for entries, running until February 21.
Launching the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, Waters is happy to announce that the 2014 program will take place on April 15 in New York City.
AFTAs 2013: The Winners and Why They Won
It’s difficult to believe that Waters first unveiled the American Financial Technology Awards all the way back in 2005, although anyone who has worked in financial services for any length of time will appreciate the extent to which time flies in this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Team—BNY Mellon
There’s a reason why the best IT team category is the final announcement at the American Financial Technology Awards: It’s the highest profile, and therefore the most prized, of all 16 categories on offer. BNY Mellon’s IT team, under the tutelage of…
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Sell-Side—Edwin Marcial, IntercontinentalExchange
Edwin Marcial joined the Continental Power Exchange, the company that would become ICE, in 1996, because he wanted to make an impression on a startup. He stayed put when it nearly went belly-up in 1999, when it became economically viable again overnight…
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Buy-Side—Tom Miglis, Citadel
Since 2001, Tom Miglis’ steady hand has run technology at Ken Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Group. But despite his long tenure as CIO, Miglis wasn’t named best buy-side technology executive as a lifetime-achievement-type award, but rather because…
AFTAs 2013: Best Compliance Initiative—ConvergEx Group
Compliance and market surveillance are among the most important functions at any institutional trading firm. Given heightened regulatory scrutiny of the capital markets, that importance looks set to grow, but compliance teams often struggle with basic,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Morgan Stanley
Waters has written extensively in recent months about mobility and the idea that work is a thing you do, not a place you go. Firms across the industry are developing new mobile strategies, but it is Morgan Stanley’s Matrix Mobile rollout that won this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
IT integration projects have an annoying habit of resembling icebergs: They might appear to be relatively rudimentary undertakings at the outset, but they invariably grow in complexity, timescale, and budget as they progress, often throwing up more…
AFTAs 2013: Best OTC Trading Initiative—State Street Corp.
If there’s one thing that 2013 will be remembered for in the capital markets, it will be that this was the year that swap execution facilities (SEFs) started operating. While State Street launched SwapEx in February 2012, it wasn’t until September 2013…
AFTAs 2013: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Blackstone
Park Avenue-based Blackstone Group wins what is traditionally the most competitive of the 16 categories on offer in the annual American Financial Technology Awards, thanks to its BXAccess integrated investor portal, a blend of cutting-edge technology,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America
When it comes to financial technology, the key word has always been efficiency. For execution, that comes down to finding the right venues to trade with the best results for internal desks or external clients. For compliance, it’s about identifying and…