SST Awards 2015: All the Winners and Why they Won
This year's awards featured a number of new firms in the winners' circle and four new categories.
As with last year's SST Awards, there were a number of new faces in the winners' circle: Scivantage, CounterpartyLink, RiskVal, Perseus, Traiana, Green Key Technologies, Wolverine Execution Services, and the Australian Securities Exchange, the first time an Antipodean firm has won a Waters award. New categories for 2015 included the most promising start-up, the best swap execution facility (SEF), the best over-the-counter (OTC) initiative, and the best reporting initiative, while the two highest-profile awards ─ product of the year and technology provider of the year, announced on the evening of the awards ─ went to Quartet FS and Bloomberg, respectively.
Below is a list of this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards winners. Click on the embedded links to read why they won their respoective categories.
SST Awards 2015 Category Winners
- Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Fidessa (click here for the video interview)
- Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform ─ SunGard
- Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product ─ RiskVal Financial Solutions
- Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product ─ Numerix
- Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side ─ Perseus
- Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side ─ BT
- Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit
- Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Thomson Reuters
- Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ IPC Systems (click here for the video interview)
- Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Scivantage
- Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ BT
- Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ The Australian Securities Exchange
- Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side ─ Saxo Bank
- Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream (click here for the video interview)
- Best Sell-Side Compliance Product ─ CounterpartyLink
- Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ Nasdaq
- Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment ─ Caplin Systems
- Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Numerix
- Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) ─ Symphony
- Best Sell-Side Analytics Product ─ Quartet FS
- Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool ─ Wolverine Execution Services
- Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative ─ SmartTrade
- Most Promising Sell-Side Start-Up ─ Green Key Technologies
- Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side ─ Traiana
- Best Swap Execution Facility (SEF) ─ Tradeweb
- Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Quartet FS
- Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year ─ Bloomberg (click here for the video interview and here for the winners' circle Q&A)
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