Buy-Side Technology Awards 2024: All the winners and why they won
The 39 category winners of the 2024 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
View the winners of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2023.
The two highest-profile categories of this year’s BST Awards—Best overall buy-side product for 2024 and Best overall technology provider for 2024—were won by FactSet and Bloomberg, respectively. Below are this year’s 37 individual category winners, plus the two “best overall” categories.
- Best alternative data provider to the buy side – CEIC Data, an ISI Markets company
- Best buy-side AI platform or tool (pricing and risk) – MarketAxess
- Best buy-side AI platform or tool (compliance) – Artificial Intelligence Risk
- Best buy-side algo trading tool – Tethys Technology
- Best buy-side client reporting platform – FactSet
- Best buy-side compliance product (KYC) – Fenergo
- Best buy-side compliance product (regulatory reporting) – S&P Global Market Intelligence Cappitech
- Best buy-side compliance product (trading) – Bloomberg
- Best buy-side corporate actions platform – Orchestrade
- Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform – AML Partners
- Best buy-side data analytics tool – Suite LLC
- Best buy-side data management product – NeoXam
- Best buy-side EMS – Bloomberg
- Best buy-side evaluated pricing service – CanDeal Data & Analytics
- Best buy-side execution venue – 360T
- Best buy-side investment book of record (Ibor) platform – SimCorp
- Best buy-side managed data service – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best buy-side market surveillance platform – Kaizen
- Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – Exegy
- Best buy-side OMS – Rival Systems
- Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – FactSet
- Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool – Orchestrade
- Best buy-side reconciliation platform – Duco
- Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – Confluence Technologies
- Best buy-side risk management product – Bloomberg
- Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool – Abel Noser Solutions, a Trading Technologies company
- Best cloud-based solution – Canoe Intelligence
- Best ESG data provider to the buy side – Fusion by JP Morgan
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm (established market) – BlackRock
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm (emerging market) – Murex
- Best integrated back-office platform – Arcesium
- Best integrated front-office platform – Bloomberg
- Best integrated middle-office platform – Quantifi
- Best low-latency trading network – ION Markets
- Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – MUFG Investor Services
- Best portfolio accounting platform – SS&C Advent
- Best use of the agile methodology – Finastra
- Best overall buy-side product, 2024 – FactSet
- Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2024 – Bloomberg
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