Awards & Rankings
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: Michael Cooper, BT
Michael Cooper, CTO of the financial technology business in BT Global Banking and Financial Markets, speaks with James Rundle of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Diane McLoughlin, Eagle Investment Systems
Diane McLoughlin, head of relationship management, Americas and middle-office outsourcing at Eagle Investment Systems speaks with Marina Daras of Waters at the 2014 Buy-Side Technology Awards.
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…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2014—Eze Software Group
The final category of the 31 on offer at this year’s awards, and the second to be announced at the November 7 awards luncheon in London, is that of the technology provider of the year. This category was decided by the four Waters journalists, and, like…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Product for 2014—Vermilion Software
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists where all of the previous 29 category winners were considered as potential recipients goes to London-based client reporting specialist Vermilion. By winning this category—one of only two…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
London-based Vermilion Software created a bit of history by winning the best implementation category in this year’s awards, making it the first entrant to win this category more than once. The fact that Vermilion’s two wins come in consecutive years…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Client Reporting Platform—Vermilion Software
Transparency, compliance, data integrity, scalability, and accuracy are among the reasons why buy-side firms need to get their client reporting—and especially the applications underpinning their client-reporting activities—right. But fit-for-purpose…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—Eagle Investment Systems
First introduced to the line-up in 2012, the best outsourcing provider category has never had a back-to-back winner. Fittingly, like a firm going through a series of vendors looking for the right solution, no company has held the top spot for more than a…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best CEP Platform—Deltix
In the brief history of the best complex-event processing (CEP) platform category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards, One Market Data has ruled the roost, winning two of the three years since the category’s inception in 2011. This year, Deltix has knocked…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Data Provider to the Buy Side—Rimes Technologies
“Dominant” is probably the best adjective to describe Rimes Technologies’ relationship with the best data provider category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards. The New York-based vendor is undefeated since the category’s inception in 2007, making this the…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuation Service—Markit
It might not be a complete sweep, but Markit’s success in the Buy-Side Technology Awards’ best pricing/valuation service category is about as close as one can get. For the fifth straight year and for the seventh time in eight years, Markit’s Pricing and…