Sell-Side Technology Awards 2020: All the Winners and Why They Won

Below are this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards winners, announced during a virtual awards ceremony on the afternoon of June 26. The final two category winners of this year’s SST Awards—best sell-side product for 2020 and best sell-side technology provider for 2020—were won by Torstone Technology and IPC Systems, respectively. 

The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2020 Winners:

Best Alliance or Partnership: QuantHouse and SpiderRock

Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology: AlphaSense

Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side: BT

Best Data Provider to the Sell Side: FactSet

Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project: VAKT Global

Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm: OpenFin

Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side: HPR (Hyannis Port Research). Click on this link for an interview with Tony Amicangioli, founder and CEO of HPR and on this link for a written Q&A with Tony Amicangioli.  

Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side: Broadridge Financial Solutions. Click on this link for an interview with Kevin Moran, managing director, global head of business process outsourcing at Broadridge.  

Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side: SteelEye

Best Sell-Side Analytics Product: 3Forge

Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform: Tethys Technology. Click on this link for an interview with Nitin Gambhir, founder and CEO of Tethys Technology.

Best Sell-Side Back-Office Platform: Torstone Technology

Best Sell-Side Compliance Product: SIX

Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product: Quantifi

Best Sell-Side Data Management Product: IHS Markit

Best Sell-Side Front-Office Platform: Bloomberg

Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product: Qontigo

Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product: NICE Actimize

Best Sell-Side Middle-Office Platform: UnaVista – LSEG

Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative: Tier1 Financial Solutions

Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product): Qontigo

Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative: Barchart

Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform: SmartStream Technologies

Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System: IPC Systems

Best Sell-Side Trading Network: MarketAxess

Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool: Dash Financial Technologies

Best Swap Execution Facility: Tradeweb Markets

Best use of the Agile Methodology: TransFICC

Sell Side Product of the Year, 2020: Torstone Technology

Best Sell-Side Technology Provider, 2020: IPC Systems