Waters Rankings 2013: All Change, No Change

Change is a good thing. It keeps people on their toes; it makes things interesting. But so, too, is consistency, and I’m happy to see that this year’s Waters Rankings features a blend of both. Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, SunGard, Numerix and IPC further entrenched themselves as the providers to beat across a range of categories, while Morningstar, Tibco StreamBase, Markit and Eze Software Group represent the new faces of this year’s winners’ circle, although to be fair, the latter two have tasted success in past years by virtue of a number of recently acquired offerings—Markit acquired Cadis and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC’s) corporate actions processing platform, while Eze Software Group snapped up the Eze OMS and RealTick EMS offerings from ConvergEx Group in January this year—now featuring in their product line-ups. 

As usual, the Waters Rankings has polled the magazine’s entire readership—some 10,000 financial services professionals—across 26 categories, with the view to establishing the industry’s leading services and technology providers. Readers were not asked to vote on specific products or services per se, but rather on the organization behind them. Hence, in some instances, the write ups cover a range of technologies and services on offer from the category winners, accompanied by recent company news and plans still in the pipeline.

Write-ups by Jake Thomases, James Rundle, Anthony Malakian and Victor Anderson.

Victor Anderson

Editor-in-Chief, Waters