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The Champs 2015, Part 1: BST and SST Award Winners
There were 58 winners, all told.
2015: A Year in Profiles
12 months, 13 C-level execs profiled in the pages of Waters.
Waters Weekly Wrap: December 14-18
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
Welcome to WatersTechnology 2.0
The new-look WatersTechnology website features better content surfacing and streamlined navigation for ease-of-use.
Waters Weekly Wrap: December 7-11
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
American Financial Technology Awards 2015 ─ All the Winners
The winners of the AFTAs 2015 were announced on the evening of December 7 at an awards dinner in New York.
Waters Weekly Wrap: November 30-December 4
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
Keeping It Agile: Aspect Capital's Barney Dalton
CTO of Aspect Capital, Barney Dalton, brought flexible control to both development and infrastructure through agile process implementation.
Cloud as a Business Enabler
The cloud has been around the capital markets for some time, and while it might be the delivery mechanism of choice for all applications and services in the future, the industry is still coming to grips with what’s possible, feasible, cost-effective, and…
Tim Bourgaize Murray: Syndicated Loans: Getting the Dominos Lined Up
After writing a two-part feature this month on the syndicated loans market, Tim Bourgaize Murray reflects on the progress that’s been made, the work still to do, and the massive potential to demonstrate how financial services can fix problems on its own.
Dan DeFrancesco: The Art of the Deadline
Deadlines on regulations in the capital markets are rarely hard and fast. Dan discusses why the back and forth between regulators and firms is so frustrating.
Michael Shashoua: Question Time for Mifid II Opponents
The industry’s likely successful effort to postpone Mifid II’s compliance deadline by a year to January 2018 is only a temporary salve for a lack of effort on straightening out data management, which could have made the lobbying unnecessary, Michael…
Max Bowie: Are Vendor Buys Putting Traditional Exchange Business on ICE?
With the recent acquisitions of Interactive Data and Trayport, does Intercontinental Exchange see its future as a vendor, or, Max wonders, does it see controlling the entire trade flow as the future?
December 2015: Agile: Beneficial But Not Without Its Pitfalls
While the agile development method is not perfect, Victor says there are plenty of positives for firms that use it wisely.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2015—RIMES Technologies
The final category of the 32 on offer at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards, and the second to be announced at the November 6 awards luncheon held at Le Méridien in London, is that of the technology provider of the year. This category was decided by…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Product for 2015—Algomi Honeycomb
The first of two categories decided by the Waters journalists, where all of the previous 30 category winners were considered as potential recipients, goes to London-based Algomi, thanks to its outstanding Honeycomb offering. Honeycomb is a corporate bond…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side IBOR Platform—SimCorp
The term “investment book of record”—or IBOR—is both new and old. While the term itself is new, its function is based on activities that have always existed across the buy side, to some degree or another: a centralized, intra-day book of positions across…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—AlphaSense
The word on everyone’s lips these days is “analytics.” As firms work to collect and store huge amounts of information, they want to be able to analyze that data to make actionable business decisions based on it. It’s only the second time that the best…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side TCA Tool—ITG
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) is not a new concept to the capital markets, but it is a critical one if buy-side firms want to assess the quality of their executions with the view to providing better levels of service to their asset owners. Multi-asset…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Winners' Circle—S3 Partners
Following up on last year’s best newcomer award, New York-based S3 Partners was named as the best big data technology provider to the buy side at this year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards. Robert Sloan, founder and managing partner at S3 Partners, chats…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Big Data Technology Provider to the Buy Side—S3 Partners
Last year, S3 Partners, a New York-based financial data, analytics and services vendor, won the best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product) category in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its Blacklight data aggregation and analytics tool. This year…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—Eze Castle Integration
It was only a matter of time before Eze Castle Integration (ECI) won this category. ECI—not to be confused with Eze Software Group (see page 50)—was at the vanguard of cloud’s explosion and was signing buy-side clients long before the technology became…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Buy Side—SunGard
SunGard is one of the more ubiquitous vendors on Wall Street. So it came as something of a surprise when, in August this year, Fidelity National Information Services swooped in and bought the Wayne, Pa.-based company for a whopping $9.1 billion. How that…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform/Service—Indus Valley Partners
After years of little change, the best reconciliation platform category in the BST Awards has become one of the most hotly contested. SmartStream Technologies won the first four awards, while last year, Electra Information Systems took the crown. Now,…