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James Rundle: Cross-Country Marathons
Operating across regulatory jurisdictions is never easy, but in some areas, it’s practically impossible to do so efficiently. Even when regulators prove accommodating there are challenges, James says.
Waters Rankings 2103: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider — Goldman Sachs
In 2012, Goldman Sachs finished second to JPMorgan in this category, less than one percentage point away from dethroning the five-time champ. This year, Goldman has gone one better, narrowly edging out JPMorgan in a category that was again keenly…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Agency Brokerage — ITG
In times of constrained liquidity and fragmentation—and the risk and cost that comes with those conditions—firms are pushing harder than ever for cutting-edge algorithms and top-tier crossing capabilities. It’s this combination that has lead Waters’…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Exceptions and Reconciliation Management Provider — Omgeo
Establishing something of a dynasty, for the fourth straight year, Omgeo has been named the best exceptions and reconciliation management provider by Waters’ readers. As firms look to automate their reconciliation processes in order to better mitigate…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Sell-Side OMS Provider — Bloomberg
The extent to which a company dominates the market in which it operates can be seen in the way its name becomes a proxy for all offerings in that particular segment. Hoover, Coke, Tannoy, and iPod are all examples of this phenomenon. So too is Bloomberg,…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Portfolio Management System Provider — Bloomberg
If buy-side firms had to select two applications that were critical to managing their day-to-day trading operations, their order management system would be one, and their portfolio management system would be the other. It is hardly surprising, therefore,…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Buy-Side OMS Provider — Eze Software Group
Eze Software Group, established in early January this year in the wake of its previous owner, ConvergEx Group, selling off two of its brightest lights—Eze Castle Software and RealTick, which it acquired from Barclays in late 2010—has had to negotiate…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best EMS Provider — Eze Software Group
The RealTick EMS, along with its sibling, Eze OMS, was unexpectedly acquired from ConvergEx Group earlier this year. Now that the dust has settled, the move looks to be both astute and fortuitous for the new owner, Eze Software Group.
Waters Rankings 2013: Best EDM System Provider — Markit Enterprise Data Management
Coming out of nowhere is a company that didn’t make the top three in voting last year, when Sybase took home its fifth straight Waters Rankings gong. Markit Enterprise Data Management must have still been finding its sea legs two months after Markit…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Corporate Actions Solution — Markit Corporate Actions
It took a year for Markit’s strategic acquisition of Cadis to pay off in terms of yielding success in the Waters Rankings. But the London-based vendor’s corporate actions recognition was far more immediate, coming just over a month after its purchase of…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters has taken home the two data awards in the Waters Rankings for the second successive year. The strength of its reference data is in getting the basics right while updating its offering to meet changing needs in financial services. New…
Waters Rankings 2103: Best CEP Solution Provider — Tibco Streambase
Vivek Ranadivé made two splashy purchases in the last two months. First came the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. Next came StreamBase, the event-processing software provider scooped up in June by Tibco, Ranadivé’s Palo Alto,…
Waters Rankings 2103: Best Market Risk Solution — SunGard
Returning to the top spot in this category, SunGard has once again proven its dominance in the market risk field through its innovative combination with credit risk information.
Waters Rankings 2013: Best AML Compliance Solution Provider — SAS
Anti-money laundering (AML) is at the forefront of every regulator’s mind at the moment, given its connections with organized crime, terrorism and fraud. Banks find themselves in precarious situations without the correct processes and solutions in place,…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider — Numerix
For the second straight year, Waters’ readers have named Numerix and its CrossAsset platform as the best solution for managing credit risk. The most significant upgrade made to the Numerix offering was the June launch of a new scripting language for…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Risk Analytics Provider — Numerix
It won’t come as too much of a surprise that Waters’ readers who chose Numerix as the top credit risk solution provider, also named the New York-based firm as the best risk analytics provider. This is the second year in a row that Numerix has done the…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider — IPC Systems
Having won this category in the Waters Rankings for six out of seven years, from when it focused purely on turrets through to its expansion to include unified communications systems, IPC has once again proven itself a force to be reckoned with.
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Market Surveillance Systems Provider — Nasdaq OMX
Market surveillance, perhaps more so than any other business process, is crucial in the modern age of capital-markets activity. The potential financial, reputational, political and institutional damage that can occur from not monitoring employees’ and…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Datacenter Provider — Equinix
When it comes to financial services-focused datacenters, Equinix continues to lead the field in terms of expansion and offerings. Stretching across financial centers in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the vendor’s reach is truly global.
Waters Rankings 2013: All Change, No Change
This year, the Waters Rankings can best be described as a mix of lots of change and no change at all—we welcomed a number of new victors to the winners’ circle who have taken their places alongside those vendors and service providers that continue to…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Network Provider — IPC Systems
Networks are an increasingly vital part of the global capital markets ecosystem, linking buyers and sellers, providing liquidity, and reducing technology strain across the industry. Many claim to have localized networks in datacenters, private cloud…
Waters Rankings 2013: Best Cloud-based Service Provider — BT
BT has followed up its win in the corresponding category in the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards by being voted best cloud-based services provider by Waters’ readers thanks to its ubiquitous BT Radianz Cloud offering, which, since the beginning of…
Waters Rankings 2013: Winners' Circle — Talking Loud and Clear
Formed by the convergence of three different businesses, Eze Software Group has entered the game with a bang this year, taking home the Waters Rankings awards for Best Buy-Side OMS and Best Execution Management System. David Quinlan, co-president of the…
Waters Rankings 2013: Winners' Circle — New Frontiers
The complex-event processing (CEP) space has always been a highly competitive one, and with the recent run of acquisitions among vendors, it’s becoming fiercer. Tibco StreamBase, however, fought off its rivals to take the award for the best CEP provider…