Sell-Side Technology Awards 2018: All the Winners
The winners of the 32 categories comprising the 2018 Sell-Side Technology Awards were revealed at a luncheon in London on the afternoon of April 20.

The final two categories of this year’s SST Awards – best sell-side product for 2018 and best sell-side technology provider for 2018 – were announced at the awards luncheon and were won by London Stock Exchange Group and SIX Financial Information, respectively. British ocean rower, Roz Savage, presented the awards. Full category write-ups about the winners will appear in the June 2018 issue of Waters magazine.
Below is the list of this year’s categories on offer and the winners in each of those categories.
- Best Alliance or Partnership: FlexTrade Systems
- Best Artificial Intelligence Technology: Digital Reasoning
- Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side: BT
- Best Data Provider to the Sell Side: SIX Financial Information
- Best Distributed-Ledger Technology: Project R3
- Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm: SmartStream Technologies
- Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side: Avelacom
- Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side: Broadridge Financial Solutions
- Best Reporting Platform or Service for the Sell Side: AxiomSL
- Best Sell-Side Analytics Product: NEX TriOptima
- Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform: FlexTrade Systems
- Best Sell-Side Back-Office Platform: Murex
- Best Sell-Side Compliance Product: Imagine Software
- Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product: Numerix
- Best Sell-Side Data Management Product: IHS Markit
- Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform: Pragma Securities
- Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product: RiskVal Financial Solutions
- Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product: Nasdaq
- Best Sell-Side Middle-Office Platform: Unavista, London Stock Exchange Group
- Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative: Saxo Bank
- Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product): OpenDoor Securities
- Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative: FIS
- Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform: NEX Group
- Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System: IPC System
- Best Sell-Side Trading Network: BT
- Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment: Pershing, a BNY Mellon Company
- Best Smart Order Routing Product/Tool: Pragma Securities
- Best Swap Execution Facility (SEF): Tradeweb Markets
- Best use of the Agile Methodology: Duco
- Most Promising Sell-Side Startup: TransFICC
- Best Sell-Side Product for 2018: UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
- Best Sell-Side Technology Provider for 2018: SIX Financial Information
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