Waters Rankings 2015 — All the Winners and Why They Won

As has become a summer tradition, end-users representing a large swath of the capital markets cast thousands of votes over a six-week period to determine the outcome of the 30 categories making up this year's Waters Rankings. Below is the list of this year's category winners, who received their awards at the Metropolitan Club-hosted Waters Rankings luncheon on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The August issue of Waters features write-ups on all of the category winners, explaining their strengths in the categories they won. We would like to thank our readers for sharing their expertise in determining this year's winners, as well as everyone who attended the event.

To view 2014's winners, please click here.

TRADING SERVICES

Best Broker-Dealer ─ UBS

Best Agency Broker ─ Bloomberg Tradebook. Click on this link to hear Sabrina Gagliotta discuss Bloomberg's success. 

Best Crossing Network Provider ─ Instinet

Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider ─ The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Best Reconciliation Management Provider ─ Bloomberg

Best Algorithmic Trading Provider ─ Instinet

TRADING TOOLS

Best Sell-Side Order Management System (OMS) Provider ─ Fidessa

Best Buy-Sider Order Management System (OMS) Provider ─ Eze Software Group

Best Portfolio Management System Provider ─ Bloomberg. Click on this link to read Bloomberg's winners' circle interview with Dan Matthies, head of the Bloomberg AIM.

Best Execution Management System (EMS) Provider ─ REDI Global Technologies

Best Performance Measurement and Attribution System Provider ─ S&P Capital IQ

Best Transaction-Cost Analysis (TCA) System Provider ─ ITG

DATA MANAGEMENT

Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) System Provider ─ Markit

Best Reference Data Provider ─ Thomson Reuters

Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider ─ Thomson Reuters

Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider ─ Interactive Data

Best Data Analytics Provider ─ S3 Partners. Click on this link to hear Robert Sloan discuss S3's rapid ascension.

COMPLIANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT & THE BACK OFFICE

Best AML Compliance Solutions Provider ─ NICE Actimize. Click on this link to hear Ed Sander discuss what NICE Actimize is currently working on.

Best Market Risk Solution Provider ─ FinAnalytica

Best Credit Risk Solution Provider ─ Numerix

Best Market Surveillance Provider ─ Nasdaq

Best Reporting System Provider ─ AxiomSL

Best Accounting System Provider ─ Advent Software. Click on this link to read Advent Software's winners' circle interview with Robert Roley, Advent's vice president of solutions. Click on this link to hear Jan Dinger talk about Advent's plans going forward. 

INFRASTRUCTURE & CONNECTIVITY

Best Cyber-Security Provider ─ FireEye

Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider ─ IPC Systems

Best Data Center Provider ─ SunGard

Best Network Provider ─ BT

Best Mobile Solutions Provider ─ Bloomberg Tradebook

Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider ─ Eze Castle Integration