Awards & Rankings
Waters Rankings 2017: NICE Actimize
NICE Actimize talks AML with Waters at the 2017 Waters Rankings
Waters Rankings 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
Our reporters take a look at this year’s Waters Rankings category winners, complete with write-ups explaining their achievements over the last 12 months.
Waters Rankings 2017: Winners' Circle—SS&C Advent
SS&C Advent won the best accounting platform category at this year’s Waters Rankings, thanks to its Geneva and APX products. James Rundle talks to Robert Roley, general manager of SS&C Advent, about the firm’s compliance efforts, mobility, and its cross…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Mobile Solutions Provider—TS
TS offers the basics of an OEMS platform through its mobile application.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Data Analytics Provider—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge's Analytics Master leads the front of the pack as European regulatory reform looms.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Sell-Side Clearing Provider—The DTCC
The DTCC continues its dominance in the clearing category with its fourth consecutive win at the Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider—Wolverine Execution Services
The algorithmic trading industry is a curious beast: Almost all the press it receives tends to be negative, given that it is only at times when things go awry that the industry sits up and takes notice. One has to look no further than two of the highest…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Outsourcing Service Provider—Electra Information Systems
Electra answers the problem of managing huge amounts of data through its Electra Data solution.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cybersecurity Provider—Eze Castle Integration
ECI has a full suite of offerings to help clients bolster their cyber defenses.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Market Surveillance System Provider—Nasdaq
Nasdaq has been piling up the wins in this category.
Waters Rankings: Best Credit Risk Solution Provider—Moody’s Analytics
Back in 2015, Moody’s Analytics caused something of a stir when it replaced Numerix—one of the Rankings’ most consistent winners over the past decade—as the recipient of the credit risk solution provider category. But on closer inspection, that win…
Waters Rankings: Best Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Solution—NICE Actimize
The vendor is also set to launch ActimizeWatch for AML, a cloud-based analytics optimization solution that uses consortium data and machine-learning techniques to identify cross-organizational money laundering topologies.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Provider—IHS Markit
Here we are again at one of WatersTechnology’s awards and apparently nothing has changed: It’s pretty much business as usual as far as IHS Markit is concerned and its domination of the enterprise data management (EDM) provider category in the Waters…
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Transaction-Cost Analysis (TCA) System Provider—FIS
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) is not a new business process that needs to be managed by capital markets firms. If anything, it might even be considered to be a bit dreary and frumpy.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Performance Measurement System Provider—FactSet
FactSet? Really? Winner of the best performance measurement system provider category at this year’s Waters Rankings? Surely not?
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Agency Broker—Bloomberg Tradebook
Despite pulling back from currency markets, Tradebook continued to invest in new technologies and stay ahead of the game.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider—Amazon Web Services
AWS, the new winner for Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider, says companies want to scale operations without replacing legacy systems.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Market Risk Solution Provider—RiskVal Financial Solutions
In last year’s Waters Rankings, RiskVal Financial Solutions caused something of an upset by becoming the first recipient of this award other than FinAnalytica (acquired by BISAM in March 2016) or SunGard (now FIS) in the last six years.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Portfolio Management System Provider—RiskVal Financial Solutions
RiskVal wins again for Best Portfolio Management System Provider as it aims to bring the front and middle offices together.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider—IPC Systems
In the world of financial technology, consistency is perhaps king over everything else. In its seventh consecutive win in the Waters Rankings in the best trading floor communication system provider category, IPC Systems has demonstrated exactly that.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Buy-Side Execution Management System Provider— Eze Software Group
Eze continues its dominance in the execution-management space with Eze EMS, formerly known as RealTick.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cloud-Based Services Provider—Archer
Archer joins the Waters Rankings winner's circle for the first time for its dedicated cloud-based platform.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider—SIX Financial Information
SIX Financial Information takes the title of best corporate actions solutions provider from Thomson Reuters.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider—Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters reclaims its position as the best low-latency data feed provider at the Waters Rankings.