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Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product — Markit
At the most recent Waters Rankings awards, voted on solely by end-users, Markit also took home the award for best EDM solution.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side — Thomson Reuters
That's three in a row for Thomson Reuters in this category.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side Trading Network — BT
The BT Radianz Cloud is 15 years old.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side — Broadridge Financial Solutions
The Lake Success, NewYork-based firm has also established itself as a leading business-process outsourcing provider through its Managed Services division.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product — Nasdaq
In last year’s Waters Rankings awards, Nasdaq also took home the award for best market surveillance provider.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative — TradingScreen
In April 2015, TradingScreen announced the launch of its Market Surveillance Tool.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side — Bloomberg
Bloomberg addresses reporting with its trade order management solutions (TOMS) and sell-side execution & order management solutions (SSEOMS).
Winners’ Circle: MSCI — Collaboration and Commitment
MSCI won the coveted best sell-side market risk product category at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its RiskManager offering.
Max Bowie: A Whine About Wine (But Really About Data)
Wine and data...a natural pairing.
Anthony Malakian: As Blockchain Builds, the Buy Side Watches … and Waits
Like his colleague Dan DeFrancesco, Anthony believes that blockchain is overhyped right now. But once this distributed-ledger technology starts to prove its worth, the buy side will buy in, and that’s when things will get really interesting.
May 2016: The Back Office Must Be Loving This
Fintech is all about the front office, but Victor says blockchain could shine the spotlight on the back office.
Agile: More Mentality Than Methodology
Part two of this two-part feature looks at the business processes most suited to Agile & the need for Agile to be a company mentality.
Open to Open Source
The benefits of using open-source software are too great to ignore for financial firms.
Aberdeen's Iain Plunkett: Transformation Through Technology
Aberdeen Asset Management's new group CTO/COO discusses using technology as a lever for transformation.
Dan DeFrancesco: License to Build
Licensing is the key to open source continuing to prosper.
April 2016: ‘A Changeable Marketplace’
Anthony discusses the need to be agile, especially in changing marketplaces with constantly shifting regulatory regimes.
Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention
Regulation Automated Trading was created to protect market integrity and update the CFTC’s rules as algorithmic trading proliferates. There are many areas where there’s consensus agreement as to the benefits of this proposed regulation, but Anthony…
Max Bowie: Data ‘Sandboxes’: Learning Through Play
Like the sandboxes of childhood, today’s developer “sandbox” environments promote innovation through experimentation—thankfully, Max says, just as in those carefree childhood days, without the fees and administrative burden usually associated with data…
Michael Shashoua: Seeking Smarter Applications
Compliance technology and artificial intelligence make more inroads among financial data management operations, with opposite levels of disruption to the industry, Michael writes.
John Brazier: The Buy Side Has Never Had It So Good
The buy side has plenty of options for bond trading, it's a matter of making the right decisions.
Adequately Agile: Capital Markets Firms Embrace Agile Methodology
While the Agile software development methodology has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really only been in the last few years that capital markets firms have started to embrace various aspects of its Manifesto.
Grappling with Vendor Risk Rules
Vendors in the financial services industry rarely make the headlines unless the news is bad. And in 2015, the news was often catastrophically bad. By Steve Marlin
Dan DeFrancesco: Know Before You Build
Why it's important to understand whom you're building for.
Anthony Malakian: Questions Abound About Machine Learning
"There’s a lot of promise in machine learning, but there are still massive unknowns and risks."