Analysis/Awards & Rankings
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017 Winners’ Circle: SimCorp Coric—Best of Both Worlds
SimCorp Coric won two categories at this year’s BST Awards: best client reporting platform and best implementation at a buy-side firm, thanks to its work with Marathon Asset Management. Victor Anderson chats to Stuart Keeler about life in the SimCorp…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017 Winners’ Circle: SmartStream—Enabling the Back Office While Minimizing Costs
SmartStream Technologies created a little bit of history at this year’s BST Awards by becoming the first ever recipient of the best integrated back-office platform category. Victor Anderson chats to the firm’s CTO, Rocky Martinez, about the technologies…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017 Winners’ Circle: The Secrets of RIMES’ Success
RIMES Technologies continued it domination of the best data provider category at this year’s BST Awards, winning the title for the 11th straight year. Victor Anderson speaks to Alessandro Ferrari about what sets RIMES apart from other providers in this…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017 Winners’ Circle: SimCorp Dimension—Sweeping All Before It
SimCorp’s flagship offering, Dimension, continues to sweep all before it in the IBOR and portfolio accounting categories in the annual BST Awards, winning both categories again comfortably. Victor Anderson speaks to Marc Schröter about the reasons for…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
Can anybody stop Liquidnet? In the 10 years that the Buy-Side Technology Awards have had a category for the best buy-side execution venue, there has only been one winner. This year, the venue operator adds another gong to an already laden shelf, even as…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—Numerix
The risk and portfolio analytics market has always been one of the most competitive and saturated from a buy-side perspective, where the offerings are continually upgraded to meet firms’ increasing regulatory, operational and technology needs. This…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Charles River Development
It’s perhaps no surprise that, post-crisis, the compliance category has been one of the more competitive in the Buy-Side Technology Awards. Charles River, which last won this category in 2014, returns to the podium this year for its Investment Management…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—FactSet
FactSet snags this year’s title for the best data analytics tool for the buy side, thanks to its suite of portfolio analytics. The vendor was also named best data analytics provider at the Inside Market Data/Inside Reference Data Awards held earlier this…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Buy-Side Back-Office Technology Provider—SmartStream Technologies
It is no secret that the front office has traditionally received the greatest attention from a technology perspective, both from capital markets firms themselves and the community of third-party technology vendor serving them. After all, when it comes to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Eze Software
Eze Software reclaims the best integrated front-office platform award, having last won the accolade in 2015.
Waters Rankings 2017: Winners' Circle—SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent won the best accounting platform category at this year’s Waters Rankings, thanks to its Geneva and APX products. James Rundle talks to Robert Roley, general manager of SS&C Advent, about the firm’s compliance efforts, mobility, and its cross…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Mobile Solutions Provider—TS
TS offers the basics of an OEMS platform through its mobile application.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Data Analytics Provider—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge's Analytics Master leads the front of the pack as European regulatory reform looms.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider—The DTCC
The DTCC continues its dominance in the clearing category with its fourth consecutive win at the Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider—Wolverine Execution Services
The algorithmic trading industry is a curious beast: Almost all the press it receives tends to be negative, given that it is only at times when things go awry that the industry sits up and takes notice. One has to look no further than two of the highest…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Outsourcing Service Provider—Electra Information Systems
Electra answers the problem of managing huge amounts of data through its Electra Data solution.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cybersecurity Provider—Eze Castle Integration
ECI has a full suite of offerings to help clients bolster their cyber defenses.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Market Surveillance System Provider—Nasdaq
Nasdaq has been piling up the wins in this category.
Waters Rankings: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider—Moody’s Analytics
Back in 2015, Moody’s Analytics caused something of a stir when it replaced Numerix—one of the Rankings’ most consistent winners over the past decade—as the recipient of the credit risk solution provider category. But on closer inspection, that win…
Waters Rankings: Best Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Solution—NICE Actimize
The vendor is also set to launch ActimizeWatch for AML, a cloud-based analytics optimization solution that uses consortium data and machine-learning techniques to identify cross-organizational money laundering topologies.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Provider—IHS Markit
Here we are again at one of WatersTechnology’s awards and apparently nothing has changed: It’s pretty much business as usual as far as IHS Markit is concerned and its domination of the enterprise data management (EDM) provider category in the Waters…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Transaction-Cost Analysis (TCA) System Provider—FIS
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) is not a new business process that needs to be managed by capital markets firms. If anything, it might even be considered to be a bit dreary and frumpy.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Performance Measurement System Provider—FactSet
FactSet? Really? Winner of the best performance measurement system provider category at this year’s Waters Rankings? Surely not?
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Agency Broker—Bloomberg Tradebook
Despite pulling back from currency markets, Tradebook continued to invest in new technologies and stay ahead of the game.