Tech
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Winners' Circle—SS&C Advent
Robert Roley, senior vice president and co-general manager at SS&C Advent, talks with Dan DeFrancesco about the evolution of Geneva and how the firm plans to grow the platform going forward.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Winners' Circle—RIMES Technologies
RIMES Technologies’ dominance in the best data provider category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards is absolute, given that it has won this category for 10 straight years. Alessandro Ferrari, executive vice president of global marketing at RIMES, talks to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Product for 2016—Commcise
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists, announced on the afternoon of the BST Awards luncheon in London, where the previous 29 winners were considered as potential recipients, goes to London-based startup Commcise, thanks to its…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Overall Technology Provider for 2016—UBS Delta
As has become a tradition in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, the final category of the 34 on offer and the second to be announced at this year’s November 4 awards luncheon held at the May Fair Hotel in London, is that of the technology provider of the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Service to the Industry Awards—BISAM, IHS Markit and RIMES Technologies
BST acknowledges three truly-innovative firms serving the buy side.
Linedata Releases New Version of Portfolio Management System
Version 6.3 of Linedata Global Hedge includes new order-generation tools.
Choosing a KYC Solution Depends on Information Needed
A panel at Waters USA said firms need to know what information they want before choosing vendors.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Charles River Development
Charles River takes Best Integrated Front-Office Platform crown as new capabilities were added.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 47: Virtual Reality, Insider Trading
Dan and Anthony chat about Waters' biggest annual conference.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform—Rival Systems
This is Rival Systems' first Buy-Side Technology Award.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Market Surveillance Tool/Platform—Nasdaq SMARTS
This is the first year of the category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—Axioma
Axioma's Fabien Couderc discusses the win.
Man or Machine: Why Not Both?
The increase in the use of artificial intelligence holds great potential for the future of trading technology, as long as humans and machines can work together.
Putting All Data in the Cloud Is Possible, Say Panelists
Data governance and close scrutiny of vendors will help bring all data into either public or private clouds, said Waters USA panelists.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side EMS—REDIPlus
If you create something good, people will take notice, especially if they are looking to strengthen an area through deploying new technologies.
OpenBondX Acquires Direct Match
Alistair Brown will stay on as CEO; Jim Greco will serve as CTO, head of rates.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—Symbiont
The New York-based vendor wins the category in its inaugural year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Collateral Management Tool—CloudMargin
CloudMargin wins the category for the second year in a row.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best IBOR Platform/Service—SimCorp
SimCorp continues its winning streak as it wins Best IBOR Platform/Service for the third straight year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The ability for fund administrators to deliver the quality and caliber of services expected by increasingly demanding buy-side firms is largely contingent on their technology—possessing industry-leading technology makes delivering reliable, accurate and…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—FlexTrade
“TradeGuide draws in data from multiple sources, which is interpreted with conclusions presented in an easy-to-digest format."
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
UBS unseated Barclays in 2014 to claim the best broker-supplied tool category in the BST Awards, a feat that it repeated last year and again this year, bringing the Swiss bank’s total of wins in this category to six, thanks to its UBS Delta platform, a…
Aggelos Andreou: When Social Responsibility Becomes an Investment Strategy
Aggelos is encouraged by the burgeoning growth of socially responsible technologies within the capital markets, but says there is still a lot more work for vendors and financial firms to do.
Smaller Hedge Funds Looking to New Tools to Better Manage Risk
"The cost of computations, the cost of connections, the cost of storage and analysis have come down. There's been a leveling of the playing field."