Analysis
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Essentia Analytics
Clare Flynn Levy returned to the buy-side technology industry at the start of 2013, founding Essentia Analytics, which won this year’s best data analytics category in the Buy-Side Technology Awards. Victor Anderson caught up with her recently to find out…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Eagle Investment Systems
In the wake of its win in the best outsourcing provider to the buy side category in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, James Rundle caught up with Eagle Investment Systems’ CEO John Lehner to talk about outsourcing, cybersecurity, and what the BNY…
REDI Looks Outside of the Financial World for Financial World Support
More single-dealer EMS acquisitions could be in REDI's future
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—StatPro
StatPro once again takes its place in the Buy-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle, this year for its efforts on the risk front with its Risk Limits Monitoring Module. James Rundle speaks with Dario Cintioli, managing director of StatPro, to discuss…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—S3 Partners
Taking the coveted prize of best newcomer in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards is S3 Partners, which impressed the panel of judges with its Blacklight offering. Robert Sloan, founder and managing partner at the firm, explains to James Rundle what…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Charles River Development
Charles River Development has reminded the industry of its pedigree by going back to its roots, winning the best buy-side compliance product category in this year’s awards. James Rundle caught up with Stephen Butcher, managing director for EMEA, to talk…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Rimes Technologies
Few organizations have been as successful in these awards as Rimes Technologies, which continues to impress with its consistent performance and its forward-looking approach to industry issues. James Rundle sat down with Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Winners' Circle—Markit
When it comes to pricing exotic, illiquid, or hard-to-value instruments, few organizations manage it better than Markit, as illustrated by its win in the best pricing/valuation category in this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. James Rundle spoke with…
Azure Disruptions Show Firms Need a Plan for When Outages Occur
Abacus CTO Viktor Tadijanovic discusses having proper contingencies in place for a service interruption
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue—Liquidnet
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards have witnessed a handful of new winners, as well as several former champions retaking the crown. But perhaps in no other category is stability more ensured than that of the best buy-side execution venue, where the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—SunGard Financial Systems
Pennsylvania-based software giant SunGard taking this year’s award for providing the buy side’s premier risk and portfolio analytics product is far from a massive upset—the vendor’s stable of buy-side solutions is enviable and arguably unmatched across…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
While the buy side can claim tremendous gains furnishing its own technology, and in some cases even commoditizing it in recent years, the sell side remains one of the most important sources of technology for investment managers. This category is a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—FlexTrade
Trying to pinpoint the best algorithmic or direct market access (DMA) provider to the buy side is a lot like picking among multiple choice answers on a law school entrance exam: Almost all of them seem right, depending on your line of argument, but only…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Competition is fierce among technology vendors serving the performance measurement and attribution space, but for the seventh consecutive year, the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ judging panel found BI-SAM’s B-One platform to be the performance measurement…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—BT
BT Group returns to the winners’ circle in the Buy-Side Technology Awards this year with its Radianz platform, reinforcing its preeminent position in the cloud space by complementing its wins in both the 2014 Waters Rankings and the 2014 Sell-Side…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corp.
Despite the fact that many are still uncomfortable with the term “big data,” the impact it has had on an increasingly diversified and electronic financial services industry is incontrovertible. Other industries already employ big-data analytics to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—Advent Software
After a year away from the winners’ circle, Advent Software has reclaimed the award for the best buy-side customer relationship management (CRM) product thanks to a combination of two of its offerings: Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) and Advent Direct…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
The best fund administrator category has never been the most popular in terms of the number of entries it has attracted since its 2009 debut in the Buy-Side Technology Awards. But that is understandable, given the modest number of organizations making up…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Portfolio Accounting Platform—Advent Software
In a year when the investment book of record (IBOR) received its own dedicated category for the first time, few can argue the immediacy and importance now squarely placed upon portfolio accounting across the business of the buy side. From newly…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Low-Latency Trading Network—CFN Services
Topics such as underground fiber and microwaves connecting market centers have caught the public’s imagination of late, although the average person is still oblivious to how much trading information is being zapped across nations in milliseconds. For CFN…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
It’s hard to think of many industry issues in recent years that have rallied a level of widespread interest and support as the investment book of record (IBOR). The technology behind IBOR isn’t particularly new—indeed, documented examples of these…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—Essentia Analytics
It’s tough being a start-up in the financial services industry, regardless of how great one’s products or services might be, the extent of one’s seed capital, or the depth of intellectual capital and experience one’s principals might possess. This is a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—ITG
While transaction-cost analysis (TCA) as a concept has been around the capital markets for a long time, the technologies supporting such functions have never had to be as rich or sophisticated as they do now. Buy-side clients expect not only basic…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—StatPro
It’s easy to forget that StatPro won the award for best newcomer for its Revolution product only three years ago. Mature beyond its years, StatPro has rapidly established itself with investment managers by taking advantage of its relative youth to evolve…