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Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product — GoldenSource
Waters has written it before, but it’s worth noting again: Ask a decent-sized sample of CIOs from across the financial services industry what their biggest bug bear is, and you’re likely to hear something relating to their data—be that data cleanliness,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment — Caplin Systems
Caplin Systems has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in the industry over the past few years, having been an early mover in the adoption and evolution of HTML5 and its leading-edge applications developed specifically for the capital markets. With the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) — Markit
At first blush, it might seem strange that a vendor as ubiquitous as Markit would come away with the award for best newcomer in the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards. And yet this year, the vendor has done just that with its new integrated resource…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology — Software AG (Apama)
There was a time, perhaps two years ago, when wherever you looked, complex-event processing (CEP), the technology darling of the capital markets, stared right back at you. Now, however, like so many other technologies that are part and parcel of the…
Big Data Webcast: Analyze This
As a consequence of their participation in the capital markets, the necessary evils that all buy-side and sell-side firms have been forced to address include mounting data volumes, greater data varieties, and increased data velocity, all of which must be…
The Champions: All the Award Winners from 2013
Waters looks back at all the winners of its various awards programs across WatersTechnology's five brands: Buy-Side Technology, Sell-Side Technology, Inside Market Data, Inside Reference Data and Waters magazine.
A Very Special Year
Since I started at Waters in May, I have learned plenty about what makes the financial services world go round. It has not been a full year yet, but it has certainly been an exciting time, and it has made me realize one thing: From a technology…
2013 in Perspective: The Webcasts
It's been a remarkable year for the financial services industry, and as the leading title covering the applications of IT in the capital markets, Waters has extensively covered developments across all platforms, including our ever-popular webcast series.
2013's Trading Technology: A Year of 'Accelerating Returns'
Readers of Waters' ongoing coverage will have noticed several themes that blossomed over the past 12 months. Some of them were predictable. But 2013 also offered up more than a few unexpected hints of opportunities to come—whether imminently, or further…
2013's Business Technology: The Year in Trends
This year has seen major leaps forward when it comes to analyzing data, managing latency, the use of public clouds and the development of an IBOR strategy. 2013 also marked the three-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act becoming the law of the land.
Data Governance Webcast: Accepting Accountability
If last year’s industry buzzwords were “big” and “data,” this year is all about data governance — the variables that all financial services firms need to develop and implement in order to improve the accuracy, transparency and accountability around their…
Analytics Poised to Lead Future Financial Services Change
While analytics tools are pervasive in retail financial services, their growth in capital markets is being driven by a number of factors. With a range technologies now at the disposal of both buy-side and sell-side firms, how will their use evolve? This…
Buy-Side Data Governance Requires a Cultural Change
At a recent Rimes Technologies roundtable, hosted by Waters, senior representatives from the buy side debated the issue of data governance within asset management firms. The problem with implementing effective governance, they said, may be cultural…
SST Awards 2013: A Leap of Faith
The inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, held on the evening of April 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, will be remembered for many things, not least because those in attendance were introduced to an American icon in the form of ex-Major…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product ─ SunGard
Given recent events across the financial services industry, few aspects of trading infrastructure and process are of a higher profile than market surveillance. Firms face devastating consequences from failing to properly monitor their employees’ trading…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year ─ Numerix
As with the Buy-Side Technology Awards, all category-winning products were considered for this award, the penultimate category of the Sell-Side Technology Awards and one of only two announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in Times…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System ─ Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions
With all the fuss and attention that software receives, when it comes to fulfilling basic trading needs, people often overlook the humble telephone. No office can operate without one, and the specialized needs of a trading floor make it an essential…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative ─ Pershing
For better or worse, the days of employees being tethered to their desks are gone. The Apple iPad, and to a lesser degree, other tablet devices, have revolutionized the capital markets and morphed technologists, portfolio managers and, yes, even traders,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Technology ─ Progress Apama
Complex-event processing (CEP) engines are hardly new, but the way they’re now being employed has changed dramatically. CEP once held dominion solely in the front-office realm of low-latency trading. But in recent years, CEP has spread throughout the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side ─ Activ Financial
When Activ Financial launched in 2002, it was considered a low-latency, options specialist. But the plan was always to expand and become a major player in the world of market data. Fast forward to 2013 and Activ has a distribution network across North…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm ─ Caplin Systems
Of all the categories of this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, the award for the best implementation takes more stock of a vendor’s ability to deliver on its promise than any other.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Trading Network ─ IPC
Trading networks are an emergent, but fierce, area of competition in capital markets technology. From concentrated webs within co-located data centers through to global, continent-spanning interconnections that link participants across the buy and sell…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product ─ Markit EDM
That Markit EDM ─ previously known as Cadis before Markit acquired the London-based data management technology provider in June last year — extended its focus from its buy-side stronghold to the sell side, is hardly surprising. That extension of its…