Waters Rankings 2016
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2016: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—Commcise
Commcise was founded in July 2015.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: SS&C Advent
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Katherine Pearce about SS&C Advent being named as the Best Accounting System Provider at this year's Waters Rankings.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Castle Integration
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Vinod Paul about ECI's win the in Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider category.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners' Interview: IPC Systems
Dan DeFrancesco chats with Rajan Singh about IPC's Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider win.
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Interview: Eze Software Group
Dan DeFrancesco chats with James Griffin about his firm's two wins at this year's Waters Rankings
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
The UBS Neo platform was launched in 2013 and covers equities, commodities, FX and fixed income.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Agency Broker — Bloomberg Tradebook
Winning the best agency broker category in this year’s Waters Rankings makes it two in a row for Bloomberg Tradebook, and that is thanks largely to a busy year of product enhancements rolled out by the New York-based agency broker.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider — Convergex
If, as a capital markets firm, you aren’t using trading algorithms to at least some degree, there are two possibilities: Either you’re based in some backwater and you route your trades to your brokers by phone calls and faxes and they execute them on…
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: SS&C Advent — After Mergers, Moving Forward
At this year’s Waters Rankings, SS&C Advent won the award for the best accounting system provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Portfolio Management System Provider — RiskVal Financial Solutions
RVPortfolio undergoes a series of enhancements and upgrades this year
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Crossing Network Provider — TradingScreen
Tradecross is currently running in beta version and has been supported by 15 buy-side firms
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Reconciliation Management Provider — Electra Information Systems
It seems like just the other day that Electra Information Systems pulled off one of the great coups of the last decade at the Buy-Side Technology Awards by unseating SmartStream Technologies, a perennial winner over the years in this increasingly…
Waters Rankings 2016 Winners’ Circle: Equinix — Investment and Expansion
At this year’s Waters Rankings, Equinix was once again named as the best datacenter provider.
Waters Rankings 2016: Persistence Pays Off
After last year’s Waters Rankings that saw 25 different firms in the winners’ circle, the 2016 Rankings were always likely to be somewhat less spectacular in terms of the broadness of the winners’ mix. Be that as it may, this year will be remembered by…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Sell-Side OMS Provider — Bloomberg Trading Solutions
Bloomberg had dominated this category for five consecutive years in the Waters Rankings before Fidessa pulled off something of an upset last year and was voted as having the best sell-side order management system (OMS).
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Buy-Side OMS Provider — Eze Software Group
Order management systems constitute the heart of all buy-side firms, responsible for ensuring that orders are sent accurately and efficiently to brokers or directly to execution venues. Eze Software Group (ESG) continues to set records in what is…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best EMS Provider — Eze Software Group
After winning the best EMS category in 2013 and 2014, Eze Software Group has once again been named as having the best execution management system (EMS). Eze—whose Eze OMS won as the best order management system provider for the buy side—is ready to meet…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Performance Measurement and Attribution System Provider — BISAM
If order management systems constitute the heart of a buy-side firm, then performance measurement and attribution platforms are their brains, responsible for providing reliable information and transparency into how exactly they are performing and whether…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best TCA System Provider— IHS Markit
Anyone who has charted the inexorable rise of IHS Markit as it has evolved from a niche provider of daily credit default swap prices to one of the industry’s largest data and technology providers, founded by Lance Uggla and a handful of TD Securities…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best EDM System Provider — Eagle Investment Systems
In recent years, one name has stood head and shoulders above all others when it comes to enterprise data management (EDM): Markit. But as someone from a large and well-established US third-party technology provider remarked at last year’s Buy-Side…
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
Another Waters Rankings means yet another win for Thomson Reuters in the best reference data provider category. The two have become synonymous with each other, as this marks the fifth straight year that the New York-based data giant has made it to the…