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Taming the SGX: A Profile of Boon Chye Loh, Singapore Exchange's CEO
Wei-Shen Wong sits down with Boon Chye Loh, SGX's CEO, to discuss his career, how the exchange is looking to improve and grow, and his love of safaris.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 71: Social Data, Analytics and Trading
Stephen Morse gives a presentation on how traders are using information created via Twitter to derive trading insights.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 70: A Look at Liquidnet's Acquisition of OTAS
Adam Sussman joins Anthony Malakian to talk about Liquidnet's acquisition of OTAS, machine learning and AI, and what the buy side wants from analytics platforms.
Waters Rankings 2017: Voting Closes Today ─ Friday, June 9, 2017
This year we have 30 categories, including two new ones: Best Outsourcing Service Provider and Best Artificial Intelligence Technology Provider.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 69: AQR's CTO, Neal Pawar, on Engineers & Open Source
Neal Pawar, AQR's CTO, joins Dan and Anthony to talk about attracting talent, the future of open source, and his love of Liverpool football club.
Systematic Internalizers: An Ambitious Regulation Caught in the Crossfire
The SI regime has proven to be the most fragile piece of regulation, as its legal loopholes have triggered a series of political events and has been established as the market’s most notorious law.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: FRTB in the Sell-Side Spotlight
The Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017, held on the evening of April 5 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, were notable for two reasons: FRTB, or the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, featured across the number of different categories and in no…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform—Fidessa
Fidessa has positioned itself as a leader in execution platforms for over 20 years, providing access to 220 markets for more than 300 sell-side firms, globally. The London-based vendor’s dominance in a perennially competitive category is reflected by it…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative—Dealogic
Dealogic wins this year’s best sell-side mobile initiative award, the third company to win the category since 2013. Dealogic , the London-based vendor’s mobile app, was launched in April 2016. Erik Anderson, Cortex product head at Dealogic, says Dealogic…
Buy-Side Tech Vendors Focus on the Middle Office
A series of mergers and acquisitions between technology vendors means buy-side firms have more options in the middle office space.
One Final Pause Before an Exit
Dan offers some final thoughts on the divisive issue of exchange speed bumps as the curtain comes down on his Waters tenure and he prepares for pastures new, although not far away—he joins the Risk staff at the beginning of May.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool—Broadway Technology
Broadway Technology made its first appearance at the Sell-Side Technology Awards in this category last year and has returned to reclaim its title as the best smart order routing provider. The key to the product’s success lies in its flexibility—it is an…
Where Are the Women?
Why the lack of gender diversity in finance leads to less revenue for the buy side.
Fearless Girls and the Board Seat
Diversity is in the news these days and Emilia points out women are looking for inspiration to reach leadership roles in banks.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment—OpenFin
New York-based OpenFin holds onto its crown in the best sell-side web-based development environment category in this year’s SST Awards, fighting off tough competition with its Chromium-based desktop operating layer that has been enthusiastically adopted…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology—Digital Reasoning
While the artificial intelligence (AI) category is new to the Sell-Side Technology Awards lineup, it is reasonable to expect it to be a staple for as long as this program continues to run. The inaugural winner is Franklin, Tennessee-based, Digital…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Alliance or Partnership—Nasdaq & Digital Reasoning
What do you get when you combine the best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider with the best market surveillance provider from the same awards? Well, you get the winner of this year’s best alliance category award—the first time this category…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—Synechron
There is no shortage of distributed-ledger technology (DLT) projects across the capital markets. Seemingly, every firm in the space has thrown its hat into the ring, working on some type of offering either internally, through a consortium, or via a…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best use of the Agile Methodology—Synechron
This category, the first time it has been on offer in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, is awarded to a third-party technology vendor that has embraced the “early and often” release cadence synonymous with the Agile methodology, while also focusing its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Automated Trading Platform—FlexTrader
FlexTrade wins this year’s best automated trading platform category, an award it won at the first Sell-Side Technology Awards back in 2013. Since then, four different companies have won the award, but FlexTrade—with its FlexTrader platform—takes the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product—Numerix
Numerix maintains its crown among sell-side credit risk products, winning the best sell-side credit risk category for the fifth straight time in the Sell-Side Technology Awards. A vendor’s ability to hold its spot in the winners’ circle for that long…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
Since the launch of the Sell-Side Technology Awards five years ago, there has been only one winner of the best cloud provider category—BT with its BT Radianz Cloud.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—AlphaPoint
Back in June 2016, Waters attended the sixth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, held at Bank of America’s One Bryant Park offices. One of the eight profiled startups on the day was Madison Avenue-based AlphaPoint, whose platform was…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—AlphaSense
No part of the capital markets is seeing more investment and innovation that the analytics sector. Trading firms are always looking to find new information sources and artificial intelligence has helped to improve those efforts as they try to find alpha…