Buy-Side Technology Awards 2022: All the Winners and Why They Won
Here are the 37 category winners comprising the 2022 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
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.
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- 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. Click on this link to view a video interview with MSCI’s Thomas Moser or on this link to view a Q&A with Thomas.
- 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
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