Awards & Rankings
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Synechron
Synechron’s Blockchain Accelerator Program helped it win two awards at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards: best distributed-ledger technology project and best use of the Agile methodology.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions won the best outsourcing provider category for the second straight year at this year's Sell Side Technology Awards held at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
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…
Waters Rankings 2017 Now Open for Entries
Fintech firms and capital markets service providers are now able to post their entries to the 15th annual Waters Rankings. Entries close on May 12.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Entries Extended by a Week
The entry deadline to WatersTechnology's 5th annual Sell-Side Technology Awards has been extended by a week to Monday February 13, 2017.
AFTAs Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: SmartStream
SmartStream won the Best Back-Office Initiative category.
AFTAs Awards 2016 Winners' Interview: MTS Markets
MTS Markets won two awards at the AFTAs 2016.
AFTAs 2016: All the Winners and Why they Won
At a dinner held in midtown Manhattan on Dec. 5, the winners of this year's AFTAs were announced.
AFTAs 2016: Best Technology Executive: Buy Side—Scott Murray (Northern Trust)
Murray was named CTO at Northern in 2011.
AFTAs 2016: Best Technology Executive: Sell Side—Bob Greifeld (Nasdaq)
Greifeld was recently named chairman of the board at Nasdaq.
AFTAs 2016: Best Third-Party Technology Vendor CIO or CEO—Steven O’Hanlon (Numerix)
The 2016 American Financial Technology Awards features a number of new categories to the now decade-old line-up—13 new categories in all—the highest profile of which is the best third-party technology vendor CIO or CEO category, awarded to an individual…
AFTAs 2016: Best Analytics Initiative: Buy Side—JPMorgan Asset Management (Sparta)
JPMorgan Asset Management’s Sparta uses the R language.
AFTAs 2016: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor: Trading and Analytics—ChartIQ
ChartIQ has been helping traders to make better decisions through its data visualization service
AFTAs 2016: Best Compliance Initiative—JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase wins the best compliance initiative category for its Global Legal Agreements Portal solution.
AFTAs 2016: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Northern Trust
Northern Trust wins best infrastructure initiative, one of three award wins for the custodian at the 2016 AFTAs.
AFTAs 2016: Best Communication Infrastructure Provider—IPC Systems
IPC Systems wins inaugural best communications infrastructure provider category for Unigy platform.
AFTAs 2016: Best Collaboration Initiative—MTS BondsPro and Bloomberg TSOX
MTS Markets International and Bloomberg win for collaborating on MTS BondsPro available on Bloomberg terminals.
AFTAs 2016: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor: Risk, Security and Compliance—Axioma
Axioma wins most innovative third-party technology vendor award for flagship Axioma Risk platform.