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SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product—IHS Markit
Once again, IHS Markit takes home the best sell-side data management product at the Sell-Side Technology Awards, making it the winner of this category for four consecutive years.
SST Awards 2018: Best Front-Office Execution Platform—Pragma Securities
Pragma Securities wins this year’s best front-office execution platform category, thanks to Pragma 360, dethroning the winner for the past three years, Fidessa.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product—Nasdaq
Unsurprisingly, Nasdaq handily beat out the competition in the surveillance category this year to take home the award, which it has won every year since 2014 in this program.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Middle-Office Platform—UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
Once regarded as little more than a reporting platform, UnaVista has become a powerhouse in its own right over recent years, as regulations have continued to force a focus on transparency on pre-trade, at-trade and post-trade levels.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Mobile Initiative—Saxo Bank
For busy capital markets professionals who are always on the move, this is a particularly important category, given that trading has increasingly become a mobile activity. Last year, the award was taken home by London-based Dealogic for its mobile app of…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Newcomer—OpenDoor Trading
Coming off its win as the most promising startup in 2017, OpenDoor Trading is back in the SST Awards winners’ circle as this year’s best sell-side newcomer. Last year, it was IHS Markit who won the category.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform—NEX Group
NEX Group’s triResolve reconciliation platform has beaten previous staple winner SmartStream to the title in the best reconciliation platform category, which it had won for the previous five years. Jenny Nilsson, head of product marketing at triResolve,…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System—IPC
Communication is key. That concept has formed the foundation of IPC’s success for well over 40 years and 2018 is no different. Taking home the award for the best sell-side trading communication system at the Sell-Side Technology Awards this year, the…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product—RiskVal Financial Solutions
When it comes to market risk, the challenges—and solutions—facing all at present center on transparency. From closing loopholes that in the past allowed regulatory arbitrage, through to more accurately analyzing the market impact of a portfolio’s…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Trading Network—BT
BT takes home the award for the best sell-side trading network at the Sell-Side Technology Awards for the third time, a reflection of the company’s comfortable lead in this ever-competitive category.
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment—Pershing, a BNY Mellon Company
Last year, the winner of this category was OpenFin, thanks to its Chromium-based desktop operating layer. However, this time around, Pershing, a BNY Mellon Company, came out on top in the best sell-side web-based development environment category, thanks…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side OTC Trading Initiative—FIS Front Arena
Tech giant FIS picks up the gong for the best over-the-counter (OTC) trading initiative this year for its Front Arena product, the second year in a row that it has won the award.
SST Awards 2018: Best Smart Order Routing Tool/Product—Pragma Securities
Pragma Securities has attracted widespread attention over the years due to its flagship offering, Pragma 360, an algorithmic trading platform for foreign exchange (FX), North American equities and futures.
SST Awards 2018: Best Swap Execution Facility—Tradeweb Markets
When it comes to the ultra-competitive world of swap execution facilities (SEFs), volume is king. But before the mandate to trade certain derivatives contracts through SEFs kicked in during early 2014, Tradeweb’s TW SEF didn’t look at first like it would…
SST Awards 2018: Best Use of the Agile Methodology—Duco
This category, only the second time it has been on offer in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, is awarded to a third-party technology vendor that has embraced the “early and often” release cadence synonymous with the Agile methodology, while also focusing…
SST Awards 2018: Most Promising Sell-Side Startup—TransFICC
Founding a fintech startup has its challenges, although the large number currently in existence across the capital markets suggest that it’s not especially tough. The difficult part is establishing a successful business that emerges from the valley of…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Product for 2018—UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
UnaVista, a wholly owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), wins this year’s best overall sell-side product award, one of only two categories announced at the SST Awards lunch in London on April 20. UnaVista also won the best middle…
SST Awards 2018 Winners' Circle: UnaVista, London Stock Exchange Group
The London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista platform won two categories in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards in London: best middle-office platform and best overall product for 2018. Victor Anderson chats to the firm’s CEO, Mark Husler, about sell…
SST Awards 2018: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year—SIX
Zurich-based SIX, a technology and data provider and infrastructure operator of the Swiss financial center, wins the final category of the SST Awards 2018—the technology provider of the year—announced on April 20 at the awards lunch in London.
SST Awards 2018 Winners' Circle: SIX
SIX, the Zurich-based financial services firm that underpins the infrastructure of Switzerland’s financial center and provides capital markets firms with financial information and ancillary services, won two categories at this year’s Sell-Side Technology…
Wavelength Podcast Episode 123: An Examination of the SGX-NSE Row; Esma Targets Reporting Platforms
Wei-Shen Wong joins to discuss the brewing battle between the SGX and NSE and Anthony and James look at Esma's shot at reporting platforms.
Interviews from RIMES II Client Conference EMEA 2018
On May 2 this year, RIMES Technologies held its annual EMEA client conference at the Four Seasons hotel in London. WatersTechnology was there to interview a number of the attendees.
SST Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – SmartStream Technologies
SmartStream's Vincent Kilcoyne chats to Victor Anderson about the roll-out of his firm's TLM Fees and Expense Management platform at Credit Suisse.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 122: An Interview with Cboe's Chris Isaacson; GDPR Has Arrived
Cboe's CIO joins the podcast to discuss the exchange's tech migrations after the Bats acquisition, and Anthony and James give a primer on GDPR.