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2013: Keep Calm and Carry On
Victor Anderson looks into his 2013 crystal ball and sees little change next year in terms of the challenging operating environment, although he does see opportunities for technology vendors and delivery models that will transpire over the next 12 months.
A Year in Profiles
Anthony takes a look back at the individuals who were profiled in the pages of Waters magazine from 2012.
The Best of the Buy Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' buy-side coverage from the past year.
The Best of the Sell Side in 2012
The pick of Waters' sell-side coverage from the past year.
2012: A Year of Opinions
Highlights from Waters' opinion pieces over the past year.
2012's Financial Crime Coups Raise Stakes, Anxiety
Global regulation was the year’s obsession, but criminal probes─from rate rigging to rogue trading; sanctions violations to insider bets─won the headlines in 2012. Not every financial crime has a ready tech fix, but with buy-side cornerstones like SAC…
Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets
The IT function, which spends somewhere between 2 and 5 percent of a company’s revenues—as much as $5 billion in some large financial services companies—still produces managerial accounting, budgeting, planning, and performance reporting on spreadsheets…
Doing More with Less
David Hagen, vice president, global trading technologies at Linedata discusses financial technology fragmentation and how companies can streamline systems to do more with less
Data Management Strategies Designed for Success
Eagle Investment Systems’ Rob Brachowski discusses the latest data management trends and tools that investment management firms are implementing as part of their data governance strategies.
Waters Announces 2012 American Financial Technology Awards Winners
Last night, Waters hosted the eighth annual American Financial Technology Awards banquet, following the Waters USA conference, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Trading Technologies
Once again, winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service, Trading Technologies is going from strength to strength. Tom Haldes, head of buy-side technology at the Chicago-based vendor, talks about the…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Rimes Technologies
Rimes Technologies further cements its dominance in the data field this year with another win at the awards. Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice president of global marketing for the company, talks about what’s next for Rimes, the challenges of sourcing…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Progress Software
With Progress Apama winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Product for 2012, Waters caught up with Theo Hildyard, director and capital markets product manager at Progress Software, to talk about CEP and how it can…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2012─Markit
The recipient of this final award of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards is traditionally decided by Waters’ two editors—Victor Anderson and Anthony Malakian. The past four years set something of a precedent: The winners— Linedata Services in 2008,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuations Service─Markit
Pricing is Markit’s bread and butter─it always has been, and, unless CEO Lance Uggla and his management team make a dramatic directional change to the vendor─which boasts a headcount of 2,500—it always will be. Markit’s pricing strategy, which covers…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Execution Venue─Liquidnet
When you think buy-side block trading, you think Liquidnet. The 13-year-old crossing network remains the pre-eminent player in the movement of institutional orders, even as order sizes continue to be shredded in dark venues globally. Liquidnet has…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Integrated Front-Office Platform─Charles River Development
The comprehensiveness of Charles River Development’s Investment Management Solution (IMS) was cited by our judging panel last year as one of the prime reasons for awarding the Burlington, Mass.-based vendor the 2011 Best Technology Provider Award, one of…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm─SimCorp
Copenhagen-based SimCorp is a rare animal indeed—it is one of the only buy-side–focused third-party technology vendors that offers a true all-singing-all-dancing, front-to-back- office investment management platform, a strategy that has yielded handsome…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Fund Administrator─SEI
In 2012, perhaps more so than any year prior, the buy side took notice of the importance of the fluid relationship between hedge funds and their fund administrators. As the largest US hedge funds submitted their first ever Form PF filings this year—with…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side CEP Product/Service─Progress Software
Back in the late 1990s, two Cambridge University computer science graduates conducted research into new data structures for pattern matching in high-velocity streaming data. That research became the foundation of a software company that the two founded…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Risk Initiative Over the Last 12 Months─IBM Risk Analytics
IBM Risk Analytics—formerly known as Algorithmics and now fully integrated with its parent company, IBM—since its initial win in the best risk/portfolio provider category back in 2008, has won or been close to winning that award each year. This year,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Service/Platform─SmartStream Technologies
Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform/Service, one of the newest Buy-Side Technology Awards categories, was created in 2010 as the buy side leaned heavily on vendors to automate post-trade needs for the reduction of back-office costs. And though there…