Waters/Analysis
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform ─ SmartStream
Moves away from discrete, siloed systems toward fully integrated single platforms, particularly across the back office, are at the forefront of sell-side institutions’ minds these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Sell Side ─ OneMarketData
The concept of big data is an unusual phenomenon that has, since the global financial crisis of 2008, garnered attention from both buy-side and sell-side firms as they grapple with increased data volumes, the variety of sources and formats of that data,…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side ─ BT Group
At their core, cloud environments come down to three things: scale, connectivity and security. BT has all three areas covered in spades with its BT Radianz Cloud, winner of the best cloud provider to the sell side category in this year’s Sell-Side…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side ─ IBM
If any computing company can offer end-to-end infrastructure solutions, it’s IBM. It’s reliable, it’s massive, and it’s got quite a few software engineers under its roof. The company has seen a shift among the sell side from home-grown grid software to…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Web-based Development Environment ─ smartTrade
Given the decline of Adobe Flash as the modus operandi for dynamic web development, with even the parent company abandoning the platform, all attention seems to be turning to HTML5 these days.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product) ─ Torstone Technology
In many respects, the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards mirrored the Buy-Side Technology Awards, launched back in 2007, not only because of their similar methodologies and many of the categories on offer, but also in terms of certain categories’…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product ─ Numerix
Since the financial crisis, counterparty risk has earned its place as arguably the most important exposure to manage accurately on an ongoing basis. The fallout from the crisis has meant a greater focus on counterparty risk, either because of new…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product ─ LCH.Clearnet
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the ability to monitor and manage margin requirements has become paramount for sell-side firms—after all, none would want to make similar headlines to those made by Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers back in 2008.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Sell-Side Provider of the Year ─ SunGard
The award for the best overall sell-side technology provider for 2013, the most prestigious of the categories comprising this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, and the second of two awards announced on the evening of April 21 at the Marriott Marquis in…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform ─ FlexTrade
Name a feature, and the FlexTrader execution management system has it. The ability to control multiple portfolios comprised of several sub accounts from one blotter? Check. Access to over 200 trading destinations? Check. A formula-building template for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Bloomberg
Aggregate the power of an execution management system (EMS), an order management system (OMS), and the resources of Bloomberg, and you’ve got an execution tool to be reckoned with. The Sell-Side Execution & Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) leverages…
Nomura Research Institute: 60 Seconds with Shin Kusunoki
Shin Kusunoki, corporate senior vice president and financial and asset management systems division manager, Nomura Research Institute (NRI)
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John Landry, CEO, Electra Information Systems
A Year in Profiles
Anthony takes a look back at the individuals who were profiled in the pages of Waters magazine from 2012.
The Best of the Buy Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' buy-side coverage from the past year.
The Best of the Sell Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' sell-side coverage from the past year.
2012's Financial Crime Coups Raise Stakes, Anxiety
Global regulation was the year’s obsession, but criminal probes─from rate rigging to rogue trading; sanctions violations to insider bets─won the headlines in 2012. Not every financial crime has a ready tech fix, but with buy-side cornerstones like SAC…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2012─Markit
The recipient of this final award of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards is traditionally decided by Waters’ two editors—Victor Anderson and Anthony Malakian. The past four years set something of a precedent: The winners— Linedata Services in 2008,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuations Service─Markit
Pricing is Markit’s bread and butter─it always has been, and, unless CEO Lance Uggla and his management team make a dramatic directional change to the vendor─which boasts a headcount of 2,500—it always will be. Markit’s pricing strategy, which covers…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue─Liquidnet
When you think buy-side block trading, you think Liquidnet. The 13-year-old crossing network remains the pre-eminent player in the movement of institutional orders, even as order sizes continue to be shredded in dark venues globally. Liquidnet has…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Integrated Front-Office Platform─Charles River Development
The comprehensiveness of Charles River Development’s Investment Management Solution (IMS) was cited by our judging panel last year as one of the prime reasons for awarding the Burlington, Mass.-based vendor the 2011 Best Technology Provider Award, one of…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm─SimCorp
Copenhagen-based SimCorp is a rare animal indeed—it is one of the only buy-side–focused third-party technology vendors that offers a true all-singing-all-dancing, front-to-back- office investment management platform, a strategy that has yielded handsome…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Fund Administrator─SEI
In 2012, perhaps more so than any year prior, the buy side took notice of the importance of the fluid relationship between hedge funds and their fund administrators. As the largest US hedge funds submitted their first ever Form PF filings this year—with…