Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021: All the Winners and Why They Won

Click on this link to review last year’s BST Awards winners. 

The two highest-profile categories of this year’s BST Awards—best overall buy-side product for 2021 and best overall buy-side technology provider for 2021—were won by Alveo and IHS Markit, respectively. By winning the final category of this year’s awards, IHS Markit becomes the first double recipient of the best overall buy-side technology provider category since the BST Awards were first held back in 2007. 

Below are this year’s 35 individual categories and their winners, plus the two ‘best overall’ categories:   

• Best alternative data provider to the buy side: Thinknum
• Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool: MarketAxess
• Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product or service: Tethys Technology
• Best buy-side client reporting platform: FactSet
• Best buy-side compliance product – KYC: Know Your Customer
• Best buy-side compliance product – regulatory reporting: SteelEye
• Best buy-side compliance product – trading: Linedata
• Best buy-side corporate actions platform: IHS Markit. Click on this link for a video interview with IHS Markit’s JD Singh.
• Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform: Contemi Solutions
• Best buy-side data analytics tool: RiskVal Financial Solutions
• Best buy-side data management product: IHS Markit. Click on this link to view a video interview with IHS Markit’s Devendra Bhudia and on this link for a written Q&A with Devendra. 
• Best buy-side EMS: FactSet
• Best buy-side execution venue: FX HedgePool
• Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform: Matrix IDM, a RIMES company
• Best buy-side managed data service: Alveo
• Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform: SteelEye
• Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product): FX HedgePool
• Best buy-side OMS: JP Morgan Asset Management
• Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product: SS&C Technologies
• Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool: Essentia Analytics
• Best buy-side pricing/valuation service: Oxane Partners
• Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service: SmartStream Technologies
• Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months: BlackRock
• Best buy-side risk management product: Qontigo
• Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool: Quod Financial
• Best cloud provider to the buy side: BT
• Best ESG data provider to the buy side: Moody’s ESG Solutions
• Best implementation at a buy-side firm: Cosaic
• Best integrated back-office platform: Temenos
• Best integrated front-office platform: BlackRock
• Best integrated middle-office platform: Quantifi
• Best low-latency trading network: Itiviti, a Broadridge business
• Best outsourcing provider to the buy side: SS&C Advent
• Best portfolio accounting platform: Temenos
• Best use of the Agile methodology: Murex
• Best overall buy-side product, 2021: Alveo
• Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2021: IHS Markit