Awards & Rankings
Waters Rankings 2013: Best AML Compliance Solution Provider — SAS
Anti-money laundering (AML) is at the forefront of every regulator’s mind at the moment, given its connections with organized crime, terrorism and fraud. Banks find themselves in precarious situations without the correct processes and solutions in place,…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider — Numerix
For the second straight year, Waters’ readers have named Numerix and its CrossAsset platform as the best solution for managing credit risk. The most significant upgrade made to the Numerix offering was the June launch of a new scripting language for…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Risk Analytics Provider — Numerix
It won’t come as too much of a surprise that Waters’ readers who chose Numerix as the top credit risk solution provider, also named the New York-based firm as the best risk analytics provider. This is the second year in a row that Numerix has done the…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider — IPC Systems
Having won this category in the Waters Rankings for six out of seven years, from when it focused purely on turrets through to its expansion to include unified communications systems, IPC has once again proven itself a force to be reckoned with.
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Market Surveillance Systems Provider — Nasdaq OMX
Market surveillance, perhaps more so than any other business process, is crucial in the modern age of capital-markets activity. The potential financial, reputational, political and institutional damage that can occur from not monitoring employees’ and…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Datacenter Provider — Equinix
When it comes to financial services-focused datacenters, Equinix continues to lead the field in terms of expansion and offerings. Stretching across financial centers in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the vendor’s reach is truly global.
Waters Rankings 2013: All Change, No Change
This year, the Waters Rankings can best be described as a mix of lots of change and no change at all—we welcomed a number of new victors to the winners’ circle who have taken their places alongside those vendors and service providers that continue to…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Network Provider — IPC Systems
Networks are an increasingly vital part of the global capital markets ecosystem, linking buyers and sellers, providing liquidity, and reducing technology strain across the industry. Many claim to have localized networks in datacenters, private cloud…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Cloud-based Service Provider — BT
BT has followed up its win in the corresponding category in the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards by being voted best cloud-based services provider by Waters’ readers thanks to its ubiquitous BT Radianz Cloud offering, which, since the beginning of…
Waters Rankings 2013: Winners' Circle — Talking Loud and Clear
Formed by the convergence of three different businesses, Eze Software Group has entered the game with a bang this year, taking home the Waters Rankings awards for Best Buy-Side OMS and Best Execution Management System. David Quinlan, co-president of the…
Waters Rankings 2013: Winners' Circle — New Frontiers
The complex-event processing (CEP) space has always been a highly competitive one, and with the recent run of acquisitions among vendors, it’s becoming fiercer. Tibco StreamBase, however, fought off its rivals to take the award for the best CEP provider…
Waters Rankings 2013: Winners' Circle — Building Bridges
IPC Systems’ dominance in the Waters Rankings has continued this year, with the company taking first place in the Best Trading Communication System Provider and Best Network Provider categories. Simon Jones, director of product marketing at IPC, explains…
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…