Buy-Side Technology Awards 2018: All the Winners and Why they Won
Here are the free-to-view write-ups covering this year's 36 category winners, plus a number of winners' circle interviews and video clips from this year's awards function in London on November 2.

The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards – best overall buy-side product for 2018, and best overall buy-side technology provider for 2018 – were announced on the afternoon of the awards on November 2, and were won by Nasdaq and TriOptima, respectively.
Below are all of this year’s category winners, the write-ups of which will feature in the December 2018 issue of Waters magazine.
- Best broker-supplied tool – Dash Financial Technologies
- Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool – Nasdaq
- Best buy-side algorithmic/DMA product or service – Dash Financial Technologies
- Best buy-side client reporting platform – FactSet
- Best buy-side collateral management tool – TriOptima. Click on this link for a video interview with TriOptima’s Neil Murphy.
- Best buy-side commodities trading platform – Neovest
- Best buy-side compliance product – Indus Valley Partners
- Best buy-side corporate actions platform – SmartStream Technologies. Click on this link for SmartStream’s winners’ circle interview with Adam Cottingham.
- Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform – Tier1CRM
- Best buy-side cyber-security platform – Eze Castle Integration
- Best buy-side data analytics tool – Trade Informatics
- Best buy-side data management product – IHS Markit
- Best buy-side EMS – FlexTrade
- Best buy-side execution venue – MarketAxess
- Best buy-side IBOR (investment book of record) platform – SimCorp
- Best buy-side market surveillance tool/platform – Nasdaq
- Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) – AxeTrading
- Best buy-side OMS – Charles River Development
- Best buy-side performance measurement and attribution product – StatPro
- Best buy-side portfolio analysis tool – Style Analytics
- Best buy-side pricing/valuation service – TriOptima
- Best buy-side reconciliation platform/service – Duco. Click on this link for Duco’s winners’ circle interview with CEO, Christian Nentwich.
- Best buy-side risk management initiative over the last 12 months – StatPro
- Best buy-side risk management product – Axioma
- Best buy-side TCA (transaction-cost analysis) tool – Tradeweb Markets
- Best cloud provider to the buy side – Eze Castle Integration
- Best data provider to the buy side – RIMES Technologies. Click on this link for RIMES’ winners’ circle interview with Alessandro Ferrari.
- Best fund administrator – SEI
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm (data & operations) – RIMES Technologies
- Best implementation at a buy-side firm (trading and risk) – FlexTrade
- Best integrated front-office platform – SS&C Eze
- Best low-latency trading network – Itiviti AB. Click on this link for a video interview with Itiviti’s Richard Bentley.
- Best outsourcing provider to the buy side – SS&C Advent
- Best portfolio accounting platform – SimCorp
- Best use of the Agile methodology by a technology vendor – OpenFin
- Best overall buy-side product, 2018 – Nasdaq
- Best overall buy-side technology provider, 2018 – TriOptima. Click on this link for a video interview with TriOptima’s Thomas Griffiths.
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