Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards luncheon was held at the May Fair Hotel in London on November 3. Here are this year's winners accompanied by explanations of why they won their respective categories.

Below is the list of category winners of this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. The final two awards ─ best buy-side product for 2017 and best overall technology provider for 2017 ─ were announced at the luncheon and were won by Thasos Group and FactSet, respectively. This year saw the introduction of two new categories: best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool and best buy side-back-office technology provider. Category write-ups will appear online and in the December 2017 issue of Waters magazine.
Category and winner
Best broker-supplied tool/technology – Neovest
Best buy-side AI platform or tool – Indus Valley Partners
Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product or service – Quantitative Brokers
Best buy-side client reporting platform – SimCorp Coric (video; interview with Stuart Keeler, managing director SimCorp Coric)
Best buy-side collateral management tool – CloudMargin
Best buy-side commodities trading platform – Rival Systems
Best buy-side compliance product – Charles River Development
Best buy-side CRM platform – Satuit Technologies
Best buy-side cyber-security platform/tool – FIS
Best buy-side data analytics tool – FactSet
Best buy-side data management product – IHS Markit
Best buy-side EMS – Thomson Reuters
Best buy-side execution venue – Liquidnet
Best IBOR platform/service – SimCorp (video; interview with Marc Schröter, SVP of product management)
Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform – Moody’s Analytics
Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – Thasos Group
Best buy-side OMS – IHS Markit
Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – FactSet/BISAM
Best buy-side pricing/valuation service – AIM Software
Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service – Duco
Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – RiskVal Financial Solutions
Best buy-side risk/portfolio analytics product – Numerix
Best buy-side TCA tool – Tradeweb Markets
Best buy-side back-office technology provider – SmartStream Technologies (interview with CTO Rocky Martinez)
Best cloud provider to the buy side – Eze Castle Integration
Best data provider to the buy side – RIMES Technologies (interview with Alessandro Ferrari, EVP, global marketing)
Best distributed-ledger technology project – Symbiont
Best fund administrator – SEI
Best implementation at a buy-side firm – SimCorp Coric
Best integrated front-office platform – Eze Software Group
Best low-latency trading network – Ullink (video)
Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – SS&C Advent
Best portfolio accounting platform – SimCorp
Best use of the Agile methodology – Eze Software Group
Best overall buy-side product, 2017 – Thasos Group
Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2017 – FactSet
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