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AFTAs 2015: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Electronifie
The alternative trading system (ATS) is also anonymous, all-to-all, and focused on blocks rather than odd lots.
AFTAs 2015: Best OTC Trading Initiative—Convergex
The ultimate result of streamlining requests for quotes (RFQs) means that a formerly manual process that could take upwards of five minutes to complete is halved.
AFTAs 2015: Best IT Integration Initiative—Fidelity Investment Management
FIMT has eliminated 90 percent of redundant data movement through its integration initiative.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—Morgan Stanley
The need for legging should only grow as more electronification in fixed income is adopted in coming years.
AFTAs 2015: Best Data Management Initiative—JP Morgan Chase
Officials at JPMorgan say the platform’s greatest strength is its ability to make high-volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption across the business.
AFTAs 2015: Best Cloud Initiative—The Northern Trust Company
Northern Trust is now able to design and deliver new applications and services to its clients faster through the cloud.
AFTAs 2015: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The firm was able to slash more than $35 million in direct expenses and an astonishing $115 million in charges to business lines versus a target of around $47 million.
AFTAs 2015: Best Global Deployment—Nomura Securities
The URL-driven content browser concept allows .Net windows filtering Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications to be downloaded, installed and launched directly from URLs.
AFTAs 2015: Best Risk Management Initiative—Citadel
Citadel's Risk Center allows the firm to manage risk across all of its portfolios from a centralized location.
AFTAs 2015: Best Analytics Initiative—The Northern Trust Company
Northern Trust is using big data tools like Splunk and Hadoop to create an application that tracks and analyzes financial transactions.
AFTAs 2015: Best Reporting Initiative—Credit Suisse
Client Dashboard uses customizable widgets in a portal framework catering to various user groups, with the ability to set preferences and create standardized print-friendly reports.
Looking to the Cloud: Visibility and Security via Cloud Services
Bloomberg's Brian Cunningham talks to WatersTechnology about the major considerations for both buy-side and sell-side firms currently assessing the pros and cons of cloud-based services.
Bitcoin, Blockchain Go Bigtime: A Look Back at Crypto Currencies & Distributed Ledgers in 2015
The biggest stories from the past year on bitcoin and blockchain.
The Top 10 Features of 2015: A Year in Headlines, Part Two
Discover which of the Waters features stood out in 2015.
The Top 10 Features of 2015: A Year in Headlines, Part One
Discover which of the Waters features stood out in 2015.
The Champs 2015, Part 2 AFTAs and Waters Rankings
45 awards were handed out between these two programs.
The Champs 2015, Part 1: BST and SST Award Winners
There were 58 winners, all told.
2015: A Year in Profiles
12 months, 13 C-level execs profiled in the pages of Waters.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2015—RIMES Technologies
The final category of the 32 on offer at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, and the second to be announced at the November 6 awards luncheon held at Le Méridien in London, is that of the technology provider of the year. This category was decided by…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Product for 2015—Algomi Honeycomb
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists, where all of the previous 30 category winners were considered as potential recipients, goes to London-based Algomi, thanks to its outstanding Honeycomb offering. Honeycomb is a corporate bond…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
The term “investment book of record”—or IBOR—is both new and old. While the term itself is new, its function is based on activities that have always existed across the buy side, to some degree or another: a centralized, intra-day book of positions across…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—AlphaSense
The word on everyone’s lips these days is “analytics.” As firms work to collect and store huge amounts of information, they want to be able to analyze that data to make actionable business decisions based on it. It’s only the second time that the best…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—ITG
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) is not a new concept to the capital markets, but it is a critical one if buy-side firms want to assess the quality of their executions with the view to providing better levels of service to their asset owners. Multi-asset…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Winners' Circle—S3 Partners
Following up on last year’s best newcomer award, New York-based S3 Partners was named as the best big data technology provider to the buy side at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. Robert Sloan, founder and managing partner at S3 Partners, chats…