Analysis
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Charles River Development
Charles River takes Best Integrated Front-Office Platform crown as new capabilities were added.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform—Rival Systems
This is Rival Systems' first Buy-Side Technology Award.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Market Surveillance Tool/Platform—Nasdaq SMARTS
This is the first year of the category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—Axioma
Axioma's Fabien Couderc discusses the win.
Putting All Data in the Cloud Is Possible, Say Panelists
Data governance and close scrutiny of vendors will help bring all data into either public or private clouds, said Waters USA panelists.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side EMS—REDIPlus
If you create something good, people will take notice, especially if they are looking to strengthen an area through deploying new technologies.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—Symbiont
The New York-based vendor wins the category in its inaugural year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Collateral Management Tool—CloudMargin
CloudMargin wins the category for the second year in a row.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best IBOR Platform/Service—SimCorp
SimCorp continues its winning streak as it wins Best IBOR Platform/Service for the third straight year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The ability for fund administrators to deliver the quality and caliber of services expected by increasingly demanding buy-side firms is largely contingent on their technology—possessing industry-leading technology makes delivering reliable, accurate and…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—FlexTrade
“TradeGuide draws in data from multiple sources, which is interpreted with conclusions presented in an easy-to-digest format."
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
UBS unseated Barclays in 2014 to claim the best broker-supplied tool category in the BST Awards, a feat that it repeated last year and again this year, bringing the Swiss bank’s total of wins in this category to six, thanks to its UBS Delta platform, a…
Smaller Hedge Funds Looking to New Tools to Better Manage Risk
"The cost of computations, the cost of connections, the cost of storage and analysis have come down. There's been a leveling of the playing field."
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—RIMES Technologies
RIMES continues to dominate the best data provider category with its 10th consecutive win at the BST Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—Quantitative Brokers
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA), the process by which the quality of brokers’ executions are measured, has, over the course of the last five years, risen to prominence, to the point now where it is one of the most important criteria buy-side firms…
Cybersecurity: A Proving Ground for AI
Artificial intelligence can show its true value to the industry in the cybersecurity space.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—Satuit Technologies
Satuit Technologies joins the winner's circle for the first time for its SatuitCRM platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Product Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—RIMES Technologies
Alessandro Ferrari of RIMES Technologies discusses the win.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Low-Latency Trading Network—Ullink
This is Ullink's first win in the category.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Data Analytics Tool—S3 Partners
S3 Partners follows up wins as best newcomer and best big data provider, with victory in best data analytics category.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side OMS—IHS Markit
IHS Markit claims its first victory in the OMS category, despite only entering the space two years ago.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Use of the Agile Methodology by a Technology Vendor—Confluence
Waters ran a two-part feature on the Agile software development methodology earlier this year, looking at how capital markets firms and technology providers use it to provide consistent, regular software updates demanded specifically by their end-users.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—FIS Global
Acquisition of SunGard in 2015 propels FIS Global to victory as best outsourcing provider.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent wins best portfolio accounting title for third year running for its Geneva platform.