Awards
About the WatersTechnology Awards
WatersTechnology runs seven awards programs annually, starting with the Women in Technology & Data Awards, held on or around International Women’s Day in March, and culminating with the American Financial Technology Awards, held in the first week of December. All awards are online only and are free to enter for all firms regardless of their location, although entrants should be aware that these awards focus on the data, technologies and services used by capital markets participants (investments banks, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges, etc.) and not the retail sector. Firms may enter as many categories as they wish, on the condition that the technology or service they are entering is appropriate for the category they have selected.
Our Awards and Ranking
Women in Technology & Data Awards
Recognizing outstanding women within the data and technology industries serving the capital markets
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Sell-Side Technology Awards
Recognizing the leading data, technologies and third-party services catering to the global sell-side community
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Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards
Recognizing outstanding market, reference, and alternative data and data-related technologies across the capital markets
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WatersTechnology Asia Awards
Recognizing excellence in the development and deployment of technology and data services across Asia’s capital markets community
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Waters Rankings
The longest-running of all WatersTechnology’s awards where the category winners are determined exclusively by the brand’s readers
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Buy-Side Technology Awards
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Recognizing the leading data, technologies and third-party services catering to the global buy-side community
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American Financial and Technology Awards
Recognizing the leading data, technologies and third-party vendors serving both sides of the financial services industry
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Awards winners
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025 winner’s interview: FINBOURNE Technology
How FINBOURNE’s EDM+ platform differentiates itself in what is a highly competitive market.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025 winner’s interview: AutoRek
AutoRek’s Jim Sadler discusses the firm’s key differentiators and what its agentic AI functionality means to its buy-side users
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025 winner’s interview: S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P Global's Emily Jasper discusses the firm's Best buy-side CRM platform category win
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side algo trading tool/suite—Tethys Technology
Product: TethysAlgo
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: S&P Global Market Intelligence for Salesforce
BST Awards 2025: Best private markets data provider—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: S&P Capital IQ Pro for Private Markets
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side corporate actions platform—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: Managed Corporate Actions (MCA)
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool—CompatibL
Product: CompatibL AI
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.
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side investment book of record (IBOR) platform—SimCorp
Product: SimCorp One