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Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
UBS unseated Barclays in 2014 to claim the best broker-supplied tool category in the BST Awards, a feat that it repeated last year and again this year, bringing the Swiss bank’s total of wins in this category to six, thanks to its UBS Delta platform, a…
Aggelos Andreou: When Social Responsibility Becomes an Investment Strategy
Aggelos is encouraged by the burgeoning growth of socially responsible technologies within the capital markets, but says there is still a lot more work for vendors and financial firms to do.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—RIMES Technologies
RIMES continues to dominate the best data provider category with its 10th consecutive win at the BST Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—Quantitative Brokers
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA), the process by which the quality of brokers’ executions are measured, has, over the course of the last five years, risen to prominence, to the point now where it is one of the most important criteria buy-side firms…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—Satuit Technologies
Satuit Technologies joins the winner's circle for the first time for its SatuitCRM platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Product Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—RIMES Technologies
Alessandro Ferrari of RIMES Technologies discusses the win.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Low-Latency Trading Network—Ullink
This is Ullink's first win in the category.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Analytics Tool—S3 Partners
S3 Partners follows up wins as best newcomer and best big data provider, with victory in best data analytics category.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side OMS—IHS Markit
IHS Markit claims its first victory in the OMS category, despite only entering the space two years ago.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Use of the Agile Methodology by a Technology Vendor—Confluence
Waters ran a two-part feature on the Agile software development methodology earlier this year, looking at how capital markets firms and technology providers use it to provide consistent, regular software updates demanded specifically by their end-users.
CAT Needed Now More Than Ever
The Consolidated Audit Trail is exactly what the industry needs right now.
After 2016, What’s Next for the Buy Side?
How to sum up 2016? John considers what the year means for asset managers going forward into 2017.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—FIS Global
Acquisition of SunGard in 2015 propels FIS Global to victory as best outsourcing provider.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent wins best portfolio accounting title for third year running for its Geneva platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—IHS Markit
IHS Markit's EDM dominates the category for eleven consecutive years
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Client Reporting Platform—Vermilion Software
Dedicated to enhancing its flagship product in an on-going basis, Vermilion has become the leader in the client reporting space.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
Liquidnet keeps expanding its client base, while introducing even more functionalities into its network
Emilia David: FRTB and Aging Infrastructure
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book offers banks the opportunity to finally look closely at their legacy infrastructure, as it portends more and more regulatory and operational changes, Emilia says.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Fidessa
Sentinel has been adjusting to the new regulatory environment over the year, becoming one of Fidessa's most popular products
The FRTB Shuffle
Banks are preparing for FRTB and vendors are pushing the industry to figure out an infrastructure strategy to deal with it.
The Buy-Side Technology Awards Turn 10
The Buy-Side Technology Awards, the annual awards that focus on the third-party technology community serving the global asset management industry, turned 10 this year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Cyber-Security Platform/Tool—eSentire
This is the second year that this award has been on offer, with ACA Compliance Group winning the category last year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Eze Castle Integration
BT is a two-time winner of this category (2014 and 2012), while Microsoft won the award back in 2013.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—BISAM
BISAM wins its second category of this year’s BST Awards, thanks to its Cognity risk management platform, which became part of the BISAM stable in the wake of its acquisition of risk management specialist FinAnalytica in March this year. Past recipients…