Awards & Rankings
The 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards Are Coming
We are happy to announce that Waters magazine will be hosting the inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards on the evening of April 23 in Manhattan. We are currently in the throes of confirming our judging panel, but pretty much all the other details have…
Introducing the First Annual Sell-Side Technology Awards
Although I usually talk around a specific area or news item in my weekly letter, today I’ll be introducing Sell-Side Technology’s newest event.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: The Winners and Why They Won
The American Financial Technology Awards, now in their eighth year, seek to acknowledge the best IT projects, driven by buy-side and sell-side end-users themselves. Waters congratulates this year’s winners.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best IT Team ─ BNY Mellon
The American Financial Technology Award for best IT team is one of the most coveted of all 14 awards, and was announced at the very end of the ceremony on Dec. 3 at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan’s Times Square.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Sell-Side Technology Executive — Steve Ellis, Wells Fargo
In late 2008, Wells Fargo’s executive vice president, group head of wholesale services, was dragged, reluctantly, into managing the merger of the Wells Fargo and Wachovia technology stacks following the purchase of the failed Charlotte-headquartered bank…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Buy-Side Technology Executive — Richard Alexander, Cerberus Capital Management
Richard Alexander’s father, Ray, ran a small credit union whose members were technology company employees. It is not much of a surprise, then, that years later, Richard Alexander would find himself at the top of the financial IT food chain.
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Mobile-Strategy Initiative — Bank of America Merrill Lynch
This new category for the 2012 American Financial Technology Awards reflects the world’s increasing use of mobile devices like Apple iPads and iPhones, and BlackBerrys to perform financial functions previously reserved for the desktop computer. Bank of…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best IT Integration Initiative ─ Wells Fargo
Most corporate acquisitions are done for one of two reasons: The two companies are very similar and the bigger one wants to eliminate a competitor, or the two are very different and the bigger one wants to diversify. Wells Fargo’s overnight purchase of…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best OTC Trading Initiative — Citi
The debut of Citi’s transparency reporting portal couldn’t have been timed better, right down to the day. On June 11, 2012, the bank rolled out the Client Money Segregation portal, giving clients insight into where their segregated funds are being kept,…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative ─ ITG
Given the complexity and scope of the data challenges currently facing capital markets firms, it seems appropriate that ITG walked away with the most cutting-edge IT initiative category in this year’s American Financial Technology Awards thanks to its…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Infrastructure Initiative — ConvergEx Group
There’s a change happening in the world of FIX connectivity—in recent years, FIX costs have exploded, while at the same time, broker-dealers have had to adjust to life in a tough market as well look to cut costs. As firms seek savings, FIX connectivity…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Cloud Initiative — CBRE Clarion Securities
In early 2011, real estate investment management firm CBRE, an affiliate of CB Richard Ellis Group, acquired ING Clarion Real Estate Securities, a unit of ING Group that manages globally listed real estate securities for separate accounts and mutual…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Data Management Initiative — MetLife
It goes without saying that data quality is a vital component in any data management overhaul that a firm employs. It is tough for any organization to maintain a strong and consistent data quality culture if there are sprawling databases and disparate…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative — Bank of America Merrill Lynch
It is becoming less acceptable for trading platforms to lack multi-asset capability. Another kind of consolidation was already on Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (BAML’s) mind in mid-2010, when it strove to provide a fully integrated client experience…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Reporting Initiative — Northern Trust
Often, the best IT implementations are paradoxically those that reduce users’ reliance on IT. When Northern Trust went looking to replace its legacy enterprise reporting system, this was exactly what the firm was trying to achieve. As Dan Houlihan, head…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Risk Analytics Initiative — LCH.Clearnet
Given risk management’s elevation in recent years to arguably the single most critical business process for buy-side and sell-side firms to monitor outside of specific alpha-seeking functions, it is hardly surprising to note the slew of risk management…
American Financial Technology Awards 2012: Best Global Deployment — ITG
Most technology implementations within financial services firms, regardless of how trivial they might appear at the outset, are not for the fainthearted—they have a knack for turning out to be far more complicated than anticipated, extending deadlines…
Waters Announces 2012 American Financial Technology Awards Winners
Last night, Waters hosted the eighth annual American Financial Technology Awards banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
See You at Waters USA
It's almost early December, which means that our Waters USA conference is right around the corner ─ specifically, this Monday, December 3.
BST Awards 2012: The Winners and Why They Won
Earlier this month, Waters magazine announced the category winners in the sixth annual Buy-Side Technology Awards. Below follows a brief explanation outlining a number of noteworthy performances in this year's awards, plus the list of winning companies…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Trading Technologies
Once again, winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service, Trading Technologies is going from strength to strength. Tom Haldes, head of buy-side technology at the Chicago-based vendor, talks about the…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Rimes Technologies
Rimes Technologies further cements its dominance in the data field this year with another win at the awards. Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice president of global marketing for the company, talks about what’s next for Rimes, the challenges of sourcing…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Progress Software
With Progress Apama winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Product for 2012, Waters caught up with Theo Hildyard, director and capital markets product manager at Progress Software, to talk about CEP and how it can…