Awards & Rankings
AFTAs 2013: Best Technology Executive, Buy-Side—Tom Miglis, Citadel
Since 2001, Tom Miglis’ steady hand has run technology at Ken Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Group. But despite his long tenure as CIO, Miglis wasn’t named best buy-side technology executive as a lifetime-achievement-type award, but rather because…
AFTAs 2013: Best Compliance Initiative—ConvergEx Group
Compliance and market surveillance are among the most important functions at any institutional trading firm. Given heightened regulatory scrutiny of the capital markets, that importance looks set to grow, but compliance teams often struggle with basic,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative—Morgan Stanley
Waters has written extensively in recent months about mobility and the idea that work is a thing you do, not a place you go. Firms across the industry are developing new mobile strategies, but it is Morgan Stanley’s Matrix Mobile rollout that won this…
AFTAs 2013: Best IT Integration Initiative—Bank of America Merrill Lynch
IT integration projects have an annoying habit of resembling icebergs: They might appear to be relatively rudimentary undertakings at the outset, but they invariably grow in complexity, timescale, and budget as they progress, often throwing up more…
AFTAs 2013: Best OTC Trading Initiative—State Street Corp.
If there’s one thing that 2013 will be remembered for in the capital markets, it will be that this was the year that swap execution facilities (SEFs) started operating. While State Street launched SwapEx in February 2012, it wasn’t until September 2013…
AFTAs 2013: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—Blackstone
Park Avenue-based Blackstone Group wins what is traditionally the most competitive of the 16 categories on offer in the annual American Financial Technology Awards, thanks to its BXAccess integrated investor portal, a blend of cutting-edge technology,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Bank of America
When it comes to financial technology, the key word has always been efficiency. For execution, that comes down to finding the right venues to trade with the best results for internal desks or external clients. For compliance, it’s about identifying and…
AFTAs 2013: Best Cloud Initiative—NYSE Euronext
In recent months, cloud-based solutions in the capital markets have become increasingly popular. NYSE Euronext has established itself as a major player in this space, and, through its Qbeats project, won this year’s gong for best cloud initiative.
AFTAs 2013: Best Reporting Initiative—Blackstone
Where Northern Trust, last year’s winner of the best reporting initiative category in the American Financial Technology Awards, went outside the organization for a new reporting platform, Blackstone turned inward to create a custom-built solution,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Data Management Initiative—Citi
The disciplines and processes that fall under the data management moniker are the best examples of tasks for which no finish line exists. It is a given that all financial services firms need to cost-effectively manage their data, whatever its prefix—big,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative—JPMorgan
Imagine having access to the full breadth of execution services of one of the world’s most powerful banks on a single platform. It would have to include pre-trade, trade, and post-trade capabilities, as well as clearing, custody, margin, and prime…
AFTAs 2013: Best Analytics Initiative—Credit Suisse
The common refrain when it comes to data is that it’s not just important to have it—one also needs to know what questions to ask it. Enter analytics, which has become a critically important aspect of financial technology over the past few years,…
AFTAs 2013: Best Risk Management Initiative—International Securities Exchange
Execution management systems (EMSs) abound in the institutional trading space, but combining them with risk management capabilities, thereby broadening their usage from the front to the middle office, is a powerful proposition. With PrecISE, the Deutsche…
AFTAs 2013: Best Global Deployment—Instinet
It is no secret that some of the most complex and laborious technology projects in the capital markets come on the back of mergers or acquisitions—necessary evils of participating in a constantly evolving industry. It is therefore not surprising that the…
The Champions: All the Award Winners from 2013
Waters looks back at all the winners of its various awards programs across WatersTechnology's five brands: Buy-Side Technology, Sell-Side Technology, Inside Market Data, Inside Reference Data and Waters magazine.
Waters Announces American Financial Technology Awards 2013 Winners
Tonight, Waters hosted the ninth annual American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2013—Eagle Investment Systems
By winning the most prestigious category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the second of two awards announced at the awards luncheon on November 1, Eagle Investment Systems created a little bit of history by becoming the first company to do so…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Winners' Circle—Eagle Investment Systems
With its second win in the best overall buy-side technology provider category, Eagle Investment Systems has proved once again that it is at the top of its game. John Lehner, Eagle’s president and CEO, talks to Waters about cloud on the buy side, what he…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Overall Buy-Side Product for 2013—LCH.Clearnet
The penultimate category of the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013, the best buy-side product of the year, was the first of only two awards announced on the day of the BST Awards luncheon on November 1 in London. Each of the 26 individual category winners…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best TCA Provider to the Buy Side—ITG
This is only the second year of this category’s existence, but you wouldn’t guess it from checking all the transaction-cost analysis (TCA) products on offer in the market. It means any provider needs to go that much farther to stand out, especially since…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—Datawatch Corporation
Big data is rapidly emerging as one of the more contentious terms in modern buy-side technology. Some people argue that it’s absolutely a new phenomenon; others contend that it’s always been there, and it’s just the relativistic levels of data compared…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative—LCH.Clearnet
The award bonanza for LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear Margin Approximation Risk Tool (Smart) continues thanks to a savvy partnership with the Bloomberg Professional Service, which has exposed it to potentially over 300,000 pairs of eyes. Bloomberg in August…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Microsoft
When you think of the term “cloud technology,” Microsoft is top-of-mind even for decidedly non-technologists. The buy side has only relatively recently come around to the idea of using cloud-based technologies to cut costs and save resources, even though…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
This is the fourth year that the best reconciliation platform or service category has been included in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and for the fourth straight year, SmartStream has taken home the award. The London-based vendor’s success can be…