Analysis
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side OMS—Charles River Development
Welcome back, Charles River! When the Buy-Side Technology Awards launched in 2007, it was Charles River at the top of the best OMS category. The Burlington-based vendor followed up that feat with wins in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The next four years, though,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—Algomi
By far our most crowded category, the best newcomer always produces a diversity of challenges and considerations for the judges to sort through. Unsurprisingly, these considerations have produced some varied results. Recent winners, S3 Partners (2014),…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Ask any buy-side firm about their raison d’être and performance is likely to feature prominently in pretty much every response, irrespective of the size of the firm, the complexity of its investment strategies and operations, and the number of years it…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit EDM
In April this year, Markit won the best data management provider category in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, a win that yielded the following statement in the category’s write-up in the May 2015 issue of Waters: “It’s a challenge when it comes to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform—Bloomberg
Bloomberg won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best commodities trading platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—UBS Delta
Which technology besides a firm’s order management system and its performance capabilities is more important to a buy-side firm than risk analytics? As a result, very few categories among our awards are as competitive as this one. In fact, four different…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—Dash Financial
Dash Financial won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best algorithmic or direct market access provider.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
SEI won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best fund administrator.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—RIMES Technologies
RIMES Technologies, it seems, just can’t stop winning the best data provider category in the Buy-Side Technology Awards. The New York-based specialist data provider to the global investment management industry, has, apparently without breaking sweat,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Eze Software Group
Finally at the top of the pile in this consistently close-fought category, Eze Software Group (ESG) wins the 2015 best integrated front-office platform award, adding to previous victories in the OMS, EMS and best overall technology provider categories.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—SS&C Advent Software
SS&C Advent won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best portfolio accounting platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Winners' Circle—Eze Software Group
Pete Sinisgalli, CEO of Eze Software Group, and Rob Keller, executive managing director of product management and development, talk to Dan DeFrancesco about their firm's win.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Compliance Product—Fidessa
In a category where the award changes hands yearly among a perennially competitive pack, Fidessa has reclaimed the best buy-side compliance product award, following victories for Linedata and Charles River in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Winners' Circle—Fidessa
Fidessa’s Sentinel came top in a crowded field of compliance entries at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. Tim Bourgaize Murray spoke with Richard Hooke, Fidessa’s product director for the buy side, about the intricacies and future direction of…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
Liquidnet won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best execution venue.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Client Reporting Platform—Vermilion Software
Vermilion won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best client reporting platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
It’s been no secret of late that the major broker-dealers are suffering under new capital requirements. As they cope, some have been forced to exit markets, spin off desks, and pull back from higher-leverage activities. Luckily, they haven’t quit…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Collateral Management Tool—CloudMargin
Collateral management tools—a significant source of expenditure for sell-side securities services arms and a source of pain for investment managers—are at the forefront of post-financial crisis regulatory change. The need for higher quality collateral,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Cyber-Security Platform/Tool—ACA Aponix
Talk about catching lightning in a bottle. Barely more than a year on from its founding and after being bought by mainstay buy-side services provider ACA Compliance this February, Aponix has duly landed the inaugural cyber-security award. As any Waters…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuation Service—Interactive Data
All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Markit’s heady streak of five straight victories in this category. The last time Lance Uggla’s company was without this award—when Numerix held it in 2009—Barack Obama was still in his first year as…
Data Management: Regulation, Problems and Solutions For the Buy Side
Regulators are looking for evidence of good processes and procedures around data withing the firms that fall under their jurisdiction.
DTCC's Daniel Magarino Discusses New Data-as-a-Service Offering
Daniel Magarino talks with WatersTechnology about customizing data so firms can turn data into action.
ETAS 2015 Panelists Cite Memory, Coding and CEP Trends
As legislation bites what opportunities emerge?
Algo Testing a Major Concern Under MiFID II, ETAS Panelists Say
Clarity of definitions and testing environments are still major hurdles for firms' MiFID II readiness, panelists say.