Sell-Side Technology Awards 2019: All the Winners and Why They Won
This year's SST Awards were held on the afternoon of April 12 in London. Here are this year's 31 category winners.
This year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards were held at the Corinthia in London on the afternoon of April 12. AWS and Numerix won the final two categories of this year’s awards: product of the year and best overall technology provider for 2019, respectively.
Best Alliance or Partnership – QuantHouse and ARQA Technologies
Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology – Digital Reasoning
Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side – Amazon Web Services
Best Data Provider to the Sell Side – FactSet
Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project – Baton Systems
Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm – TriOptima
Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side – IPC Systems
Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side – Broadridge Financial Solutions
Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side – Kaizen Reporting
Best Sell-Side Analytics Product – Imagine Software
Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform – FlexTrade Systems
Best Sell-Side Back-Office Platform – SmartStream Technologies. Click on this link for the winners’ circle interview with SmartStream’s Vincent Kilcoyne.
Best Sell-Side Compliance Product – SIX
Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product – Numerix
Best Sell-Side Data Management Product – IHS Markit
Best Sell-Side Front-Office Platform – Bloomberg
Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product – Murex
Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product – Nasdaq
Best Sell-Side Middle-Office Platform – UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative – Caplin Systems
Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) – RIMES Technologies
Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative – Numerix
Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform – Duco
Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System – Cloud9 Technologies
Best Sell-Side Trading Network – Refinitiv
Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment – 3Forge
Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool – Fidessa
Best Swap Execution Facility (SEF) – Tradeweb Markets
Best use of the Agile Methodology – IHS Markit
Sell-Side Product of the Year, 2019 – Amazon Web Services
Best Sell-Side Technology Provider, 2019 – Numerix
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