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Waters Rankings 2014: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
At first blush, a single-dealer trading platform with aggregation capabilities would seem like an astonishingly simple idea. And yet, it’s at the conceptual level where any simplicity ends, and the long, hard technology work begins. For that reason, the…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider — IPC
Traders at top-tier firms today need it all—good degrees from the best universities, impeccable work records and excellent references, a proven ability to perform under pressure, and the ability to pick up the telephone. The last point may seem redundant…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Accounting System Provider — Multifonds
Luxembourg has developed a banking industry whose scope goes well beyond its modest population of little more than half a million people. Its success can be traced in part to cross-border fund administration serving many European markets, a sector for…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Mobile Solutions Provider — Morningstar
One of the most exciting—albeit challenging at times—enhancements to the trading landscape has been the introduction of tablet devices and, specifically, the Apple iPad. Traders, portfolio managers and even compliance officers are increasingly looking to…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Network Provider — SunGard
Some technology providers do one small thing extremely well, and that narrow precision guides them to immense success. But if there is one category in the financial services industry where just the opposite is required, it’s network connectivity, which…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Datacenter Provider — Equinix
Scale might be important, but for large numbers of financial services organizations, doing it on their own is too costly a prospect, particularly when it comes to datacenters. The modern facilities used by both buy-side and sell-side firms are demanding…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider — BT
It took a while for the cloud to percolate through the collective filter of the financial services industry. Treated with suspicion at first, the idea eventually refined itself through discussion and application into a workable model for many firms, but…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Cloud-Based Services Provider — Eze Castle Integration
Eze Castle Integration has come a long way since it was spun off from Eze Castle Consulting in 2000, with its flagship offering winning the award for the best cloud-based services provider in this year’s Waters Rankings, ahead of the higher-profile BT…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: IPC
After winning the best trading floor communications system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings for its Unigy platform, we caught up with IPC’s vice president of product management, Ranjan Singh, to talk about global deployments, the focus on…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Bloomberg
In this year’s Waters Rankings, Bloomberg won three categories—best sell-side OMS provider, best portfolio management system provider, and best EDM system provider. James Rundle speaks to the heads of those three business units about their technologies,…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Multifonds
Multifonds swept the vote in the best accounting system provider category in this year’s Waters Rankings. We caught up with CEO Oded Weiss to talk about how the industry environment has improved in the last few years, the importance of data in modern…
Waters Rankings 2014: A Shot in the Arm
There is little doubt that the Waters Rankings were in need of a revamp, having remained in their original format since their launch in 2003. And so, after consulting Waters’ readers, we decided to add four new categories, and more significantly, change…
Technologically In-Klined: Seer Capital CIO Jack Kline
Seer Capital, founded only a few years ago in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, today invests in a broad array of securitized credit. That’s possible because of the flexible architecture implemented by CIO Jack Kline, who knows that traders can’t be…
The Critical Asset: Buy Side Embraces Data Governance, but Challenges Remain
While the concept of data governance has been around for several years, regulation is providing a fresh impetus to convert theory into practice. However, changing the perception of data and established cultures in buy-side organizations is harder than it…
Fits and Start(up)s: Chasing New Fintech Innovation Models
Incubators, accelerators, and mentoring programs have gained favor in recent years as start-up financial technology providers look to partner with clients—and potential strategic investors—earlier in the launch process, and global financial centers seek…
Israel: Land of Startups
Israel is currently one of the hottest places for high-tech companies to establish themselves, with the country featuring one of the highest numbers of start-ups per capita in the world. With such a fertile ground for developing cutting-edge technologies…
Waters Rankings 2014 ─ All the Winners
At a luncheon held on July 16 at the Hudson Hotel, New York City, the winners of the 2014 Waters Rankings were revealed.
Data. Broadcast Yourself.
While YouTube might not have any direct links to the financial services industry, Brian Sentance argues that the social media phenomenon’s model, which allows users to control the information they publish and consume, is already emerging across the…
The Acquisition: Japan Exchange Group CIO Yoshinori Suzuki
Yoshinori Suzuki, CIO of Japan Exchange Group, has overseen a massive technology overhaul during his tenure at the organization—but it’s an overhaul that he never expected to be in charge of just a few years ago. By Anthony Malakian, with photos by James…
July 2014: Beware the Snake Oil Salesman
The importance of technology in the capital markets cannot be understated, but when it comes to IBOR implementations, Victor says firms should be wary of vendors peddling all tech and no support.
Max Bowie: Data Wizards Must Be Ready For an Unexpected Journey
The level of innovation among providers of data tools and services is often measured by the new products they create. But Max says innovation also takes place at the end-user level as firms find increasingly creative ways put those products to new and…
Michael Shashoua: Critical Mass
Even as data quality and governance work becomes more demonstrably valuable for firms, the time that has passed since the 2008 events that spurred rules changes could be eroding its momentum. Michael hears professionals’ reasons for staying the course.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: In Search of Spanish Treasure
Bad banks have gained preference in recent years both as a way to unwind toxic assets and as entities for buy-side firms to invest in. With each opportunity, the industry has sorted and implemented these mechanisms faster and faster—often with outsourced…