Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022: All the Winners and Why They Won

Click on this link to review the winners of the 2021 BST Awards.

The two highest-profile categories of this year’s BST Awards—best overall buy-side product for 2022 and best overall buy-side technology provider for 2022—were won by MSCI and FactSet, respectively. Below are this year’s 35 individual category winners, plus the two “best overall” categories.

Please note that the category write-ups featuring an asterisk after the winner’s name are behind the paywall. That content is therefore available only to subscribers.  

• Best alternative data provider to the buy side – QuantCube Technology
• Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool – JP Morgan Chase* (subscribers only)
• Best buy-side algo trading tool/suite – DASH Financial Technologies, an ION Group Company
• Best buy-side client reporting platform – Clearwater Analytics
• Best buy-side compliance product (KYC) – Moody’s Analytics
• Best buy-side compliance product (regulatory reporting) – Cappitech
• Best buy-side compliance product (trading) – JP Morgan Chase* (subscribers only)
• Best buy-side corporate actions platform – Arcesium*
• Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform – Backstop Solutions Group
• Best buy-side data analytics tool – Solve Advisors* (subscribers only)
• Best buy-side data management product – Alveo* (subscribers only)
• Best buy-side EMS – FactSet
• Best buy-side evaluated pricing service – Bloomberg
• Best buy-side execution venue – 360T
• Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform – BlackRock
• Best buy-side managed data service – Rimes
• Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform – SteelEye
• Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – FundGuard
• Best buy-side OMS – FlexTrade Systems 
• Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – MSCI
• Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool – Oxane Partners
• Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service – SmartStream Technologies
• Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – Equity Data Science
• Best buy-side risk management product – Numerix
• Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool – BestEx Research* (subscribers only)
• Best cloud provider to the buy side – IPC Systems
• Best ESG data provider to the buy side – FactSet
• Best implementation at a buy-side firm – FIS
• Best integrated back-office platform – Temenos
• Best integrated front-office platform – Amundi Technology* (subscribers only)
• Best integrated middle-office platform – Archer
• Best low-latency trading network – Anova Financial Networks* (subscribers only)
• Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – State Street Bank and Trust
• Best portfolio accounting platform – SS&C Advent
• Best use of the agile methodology – Finastra* (subscribers only)
• Best overall buy-side product, 2022 – MSCI
• Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2022 – FactSet