IMD/IRD Awards 2017—All the Winners and Highlights from the Evening
On the 15th anniversary of Inside Market Data's first US conference, 20 companies shared the spoils in more than 25 award categories.

FactSet also won the Best Analytics Provider category that it also won last year.
Bloomberg, meanwhile, won the Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider award, which was won last year by Interactive Data
SIX Financial Information scooped three categories; Best Corporate Actions Provider, which it won for the eighth year in a row: Most Innovative Regulatory Solution for its Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service; and the Best Overall Data/Service Provider award, which was awarded based on a combination of the reader poll, submissions in judged categories, and other industry initiatives.
Thomson Reuters and SmartStream each won two awards. Thomson Reuters won Best Reference Data Provider and Best Mobile Initiative for its Eikon Messenger on Mobile service, while SmartStream’s Reference Data Utility won Best Reference Data Integration Vendor and Best Reference Data Initiative for the introduction of its Listed Derivatives Reference Data Service.
This year’s inductee into the Inside Market Data Hall of Fame is Chris Johnson, senior product manager for market data at HSBC Securities Services, in recognition of his tireless efforts to educate industry practitioners on topics relating to reference data and regulation.
Full write-ups of the winning entries will be published in the June edition of Inside Data Management magazine.
Full list of winners:
Best Market Data Provider (Vendor): FactSet
Best Market Data Provider (Exchange): London Stock Exchange
Best Market Data Provider (Broker): Tullett Prebon
Acquisition of the Year: CBOE (acquisition of BATS Global Markets)
Best New Data Product: IHS Markit—real-time bond pricing service.
Best Reference Data Provider: Thomson Reuters
Best Enterprise Data Management Vendor: GoldenSource
Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider: Bloomberg
Best Research Provider: S&P Global Market Intelligence
Best Analytics Provider: FactSet
Best Low-Latency Data/Technology Provider: Nasdaq
Best Supporting Services Provider: Jordan & Jordan
Best Big Data Analytics & Technology Provider: S3 Partners
Best Mobile Initiative: Thomson Reuters—Eikon Messenger on Mobile
Best Market Data Newcomer (product): Advantage Data—BDC Advantage
Best Reference Data Integration Vendor: SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU)
Best Managed Service for Reference Data: Broadridge
Best Corporate Actions Data Provider: SIX Financial Information
Best Reference Data Newcomer (product): AIM Software—GAIN Data Portal
Most Innovative Regulatory Solution: SIX Financial Information—Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service
Best Real-Time Market Data Initiative (Vendor): MarketAxess—Trax Axess All
Most Innovative Market Data Project (Vendor): OTC Markets—OTC Compliance Analytics
Best Enterprise Data Management Initiative (Vendor): Eagle Investment Systems
Best Reference Data Initiative (Vendor): SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU)— Listed Derivatives Reference Data Service
Best Corporate Actions Initiative (Vendor): DTCC DataPro
Best Overall Data/Service Provider: SIX Financial Information
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