Buy-Side Technology Awards 2019: All the Winners and Why They Won
The 36 category winners of this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards were announced on the afternoon of November 1.
The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards—best overall buy-side product for 2019, and best overall buy-side technology provider for 2019—were announced at the awards luncheon in London on November 1, and were won by Quantifi and Numerix, respectively.
Below are all of this year’s category winners, the write-ups of which will feature in the December 2019 issue of WatersTechnology.
Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool: TruValue Labs
Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product or service: Dash Financial Technologies
Best buy-side client reporting platform: SimCorp
Best buy-side collateral management tool: CloudMargin
Best buy-side compliance product – KYC: SIX
Best buy-side compliance product – regulatory reporting: Bloomberg
Best buy-side compliance product – trading: Verint
Best buy-side corporate actions platform: FIS
Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform: Tier1 Financial Solutions
Best buy-side data analytics tool: FactSet
Best buy-side data management product: IHS Markit
Best buy-side EMS: SS&C Eze
Best buy-side execution venue: MarketAxess Open Trading
Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform: SimCorp
Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform: Nasdaq
Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product): FINBOURNE Technology
Best buy-side OMS: SS&C Eze
Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product: StatPro (recently acquired by Confluence)
Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool: Style Analytics
Best buy-side pricing/valuation service: Quantifi
Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service: SmartStream Technologies. Click on this link for an interview with SmartStream’s Robin Hasson.
Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months: Qontigo and Charles River Development
Best buy-side risk management product: Numerix
Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool: Tradeweb Markets
Best cloud provider to the buy side: BT
Best data provider to the buy side: FactSet
Best implementation at a buy-side firm: Numerix
Best integrated back-office platform: FIS
Best integrated front-office platform: Charles River (now a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Street)
Best integrated middle-office platform: Quantifi
Best low-latency trading network: Avelacom
Best outsourcing provider to the buy side: Eze Castle Integration
Best portfolio accounting platform: BNY Mellon’s Eagle (Eagle Investment Systems)
Best use of the Agile methodology by a technology vendor: JP Morgan Wealth Management
Best overall buy-side product, 2019: Quantifi
Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2019: Numerix
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