Buy-Side Technology Awards 2023: All the winners and why they won
Here are the 37 category winners comprising the 2023 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Click on this link to review the winners of the 2022 BST Awards.
The two highest-profile categories of this year’s BST Awards—best overall buy-side product for 2023 and best overall technology provider for 2023—were won by Murex and BlackRock, respectively. Below are this year’s 35 individual category winners, plus the two “best overall” categories.
- Best alternative data provider to the buy side – ExtractAlpha
- Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool – Canoe Intelligence
- Best buy-side algo trading tool/suite – BestEx Research
- Best buy-side client reporting platform – FactSet
- Best buy-side compliance product (KYC) – LSEG Post Trade
- Best buy-side compliance product (regulatory reporting) – Droit Financial Technologies
- Best buy-side compliance product (trading) – Bloomberg
- Best buy-side corporate actions platform – SmartStream Technologies
- Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform – ALM Partners
- Best buy-side data analytics tool – BMLL Technologies
- Best buy-side data management product – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best buy-side EMS – 360T
- Best buy-side evaluated pricing service – CanDeal Data & Analytics
- Best buy-side execution venue – 360T
- Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform – BlackRock
- Best buy-side managed data service – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform – eflow Global
- Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – Ediphy
- Best buy-side OMS – Quod Financial
- Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – MSCI
- Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool – BlackRock
- Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service – Duco
- Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – Murex
- Best buy-side risk management product – Numerix
- Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool – Tethys Technology
- Best cloud provider to the buy side – BT
- Best ESG data provider to the buy side – FactSet
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm – Quantifi
- Best integrated back-office platform – Temenos
- Best integrated front-office platform – IMTC
- Best integrated middle-office platform – Broadridge Financial Solutions
- Best low-latency trading network – Anova Financial Networks
- Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – Archer
- Best portfolio accounting platform – SS&C Technologies
- Best use of the agile methodology – 28Stone Consulting
- Best overall buy-side product, 2023 – Murex
- Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2023 – BlackRock
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