Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025: All the winners and why they won
Below are the 39 category winners making up the 2025 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Click on the links below to view the past winners of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards:
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020.
The two highest-profile categories of this year’s BST Awards—best overall buy-side product for 2025 and best overall technology provider for 2025—were won by PostSig and S&P Global Market Intelligence, respectively. Below are this year’s 37 individual category winners, plus the two “best overall” categories.
- Best alliance or partnership – Murex and Amundi Technology
- Best alternative data provider to the buy side – Hermes Intelligence
- Best buy-side AI platform or tool – CompatibL. Click on this link for an interview with Alexander Sokol.
- Best buy-side algo trading platform – Tethys Technology
- Best buy-side client reporting platform – Venn by Two Sigma
- Best buy-side compliance product (KYC) – Fenergo
- Best buy-side compliance product (regulatory reporting) – Gresham
- Best buy-side compliance product (trading) – Bloomberg
- Best buy-side corporate actions platform – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best buy-side CRM platform – S&P Global Market Intelligence. Click on this link to view an interview with S&P Global’s Emily Jasper.
- Best buy-side data analytics tool – BMLL
- Best buy-side data management product – FINBOURNE Technology. Click on this link for an interview with FINBOURNE’s chairman, Toby Glaysher.
- Best buy-side EMS – FactSet
- Best buy-side evaluated pricing service – LSEG
- Best buy-side execution venue – 360T
- Best buy-side IBOR platform – SimCorp
- Best buy-side managed data service – Fusion by J.P. Morgan
- Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform – Symphony
- Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – PostSig. Click on this link for a video interview with PostSig’s Hendrik Bartel.
- Best buy-side OMS – Rival Systems
- Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – SS&C Advent
- Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool – BlackRock
- Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service – AutoRek. Click on this link to view an interview with AutoRek’s Jim Sadler.
- Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – ReadiNow
- Best buy-side risk management product – Numerix
- Best buy-side TCA tool – BestX
- Best cloud provider to the buy side – Iress Trading and Market Data. Click on this link for a video interview with Iress’ Michael Barbera.
- Best ESG data provider to the buy side – Morningstar Sustainalytics. Click on this link for a video interview with Ron Bundy and David Pagliaro.
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm – Ai for Alpha
- Best integrated back-office platform – Orchestrade
- Best integrated front-office platform – FactSet
- Best integrated middle-office platform – 73 Strings. Click on this link for an interview with 73 Strings’ Yann Magnan.
- Best low-latency trading network – Reactive Markets
- Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – MUFG Investor Services
- Best portfolio accounting platform – SS&C Advent
- Best private markets data provider – S&P Global Market Intelligence. Click on this link for an interview with S&P Global’s Kevin Zacharuk.
- Best use of the agile methodology – Trumid
- Best overall buy-side product, 2025 – PostSig
- Best overall technology provider, 2025 – S&P Global Market Intelligence
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