Analysis
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Automated Trading Platform—FlexTrader
FlexTrade wins this year’s best automated trading platform category, an award it won at the first Sell-Side Technology Awards back in 2013. Since then, four different companies have won the award, but FlexTrade—with its FlexTrader platform—takes the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product—Numerix
Numerix maintains its crown among sell-side credit risk products, winning the best sell-side credit risk category for the fifth straight time in the Sell-Side Technology Awards. A vendor’s ability to hold its spot in the winners’ circle for that long…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
Since the launch of the Sell-Side Technology Awards five years ago, there has been only one winner of the best cloud provider category—BT with its BT Radianz Cloud.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—AlphaPoint
Back in June 2016, Waters attended the sixth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, held at Bank of America’s One Bryant Park offices. One of the eight profiled startups on the day was Madison Avenue-based AlphaPoint, whose platform was…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—AlphaSense
No part of the capital markets is seeing more investment and innovation that the analytics sector. Trading firms are always looking to find new information sources and artificial intelligence has helped to improve those efforts as they try to find alpha…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product—IHS Markit
It may return to the Sell-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle with a slightly different name, but IHS Markit has again triumphed in the best sell-side data management product category. This year’s victory makes it four wins out of a possible five for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product—FIS
There is no questioning the importance of banks having a proper risk management platform in place. However, the January 1, 2019, implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) has made market risk platforms even more of a top-of-mind…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side—Thomson Reuters
On the day of the Brexit referendum, Thomson Reuters’ Elektron platform processed 30 billion live updates in 24 hours, while at the time of the result’s announcement they peaked at 10 million updates per second. In an era where data volumes are exploding…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System—Cloud9 Technologies
For the second straight year, it is Cloud9 Technologies taking home the best sell-side communication system award in what’s becoming an increasingly competitive category.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Network—IPC Systems
The trading network landscape has become a highly competitive one over the last few years, with multiple providers struggling to find their place. Good reflexes and continuous evolution of services are essential to making headway in this ultra…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge follows up last year’s win in this category by winning it again, and by so doing becomes the second two-time winner of this award after Saxo Bank won it in 2014 and 2015.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—IHS Markit
The newcomer categories in the Sell-Side Technology and Buy-Side Technology Awards are by far and away the most popular, regularly attracting 20-plus entries. This year Waters received 21 entries, which, after the first round of voting, were whittled…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year—Nasdaq
The best overall product category is traditionally one of only two announced at the annual Sell-Side and Buy-Side Technology Awards held in New York and London, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year—IHS Markit
Like it or not, many in the industry were uncertain just how Markit and two of its highest profile acquisitions—Cadis, acquired in May 2012, and thinkFolio, some 18 months later in early 2014—would get on together.
Analytics, Research Needs Pushing M&A and Value of Infrastructure Providers
Rush Kapashi of McKinsey says we should expect further M&A in the space, specifically to bolster analytics and research needs.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Compliance Product—AcadiaSoft
AcadiaSoft returns to this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle after its win in 2016 as the best sell-side newcomer. This year, AcadiaSoft Hub has been named the best compliance product, a category that has seen a different winner each…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations Premium platform claims a fifth consecutive victory in the best sell-side reconciliation platform category, continuing its streak as the only recipient of this award since the inception of the Sell-Side Technology Awards…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product—Nasdaq
Nasdaq’s double win at this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards—winning the best overall product of the year and the best market surveillance product categories—reflects the firm’s position as arguably the industry’s foremost provider of surveillance…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm—AxiomSL
The best implementation award is the only category of all 30 on offer in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards where the outcome is determined by the effectiveness of a technology implementation at a sell-side firm. By winning this award, New York…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Swap Execution Facility (SEF)—Tradeweb
Tradeweb has begun to build a dynasty at the Sell-Side Technology Awards, winning the best swap execution facility (SEF) category for the third consecutive year. The New York-based vendor has built a strong reputation thanks to its constant engagement…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative—FIS
It’s been a year-and-a-half since FIS completed its acquisition of SunGard, but the deal continues to yield dividends, as the platform created by SunGard has helped FIS reach the winners’ circle in the best OTC trading initiative category. Front Arena, a…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Reporting Platform/Service for the Sell Side—Nex Abide Financial
Nex Abide Financial unseats Bloomberg as this year’s winner of the best reporting platform or service in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its Nex Regulatory Reporting platform. It was the comprehensiveness of the vendor’s reporting suite that…
Automation “Not the Holy Grail” For Buy-Side Trading Desks
Panellists at this year's TradeTech conference in Paris discuss the important of maintaining the human element of trading over the so-called "Holy Grail" of automation.