Sell-Side Technology Awards
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Alliance or Partnership—Nasdaq & Digital Reasoning
What do you get when you combine the best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider with the best market surveillance provider from the same awards? Well, you get the winner of this year’s best alliance category award—the first time this category…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Distributed-Ledger Technology Project—Synechron
There is no shortage of distributed-ledger technology (DLT) projects across the capital markets. Seemingly, every firm in the space has thrown its hat into the ring, working on some type of offering either internally, through a consortium, or via a…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: All the Winners and Why they Won
The two final categories of this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards ─ best overall sell-side product for 2017 and best sell-side technology provider for 2017 ─ were won by Nasdaq and IHS Markit, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best use of the Agile Methodology—Synechron
This category, the first 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 its…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Automated Trading Platform—FlexTrader
FlexTrade wins this year’s best automated trading platform category, an award it won at the first Sell-Side Technology Awards back in 2013. Since then, four different companies have won the award, but FlexTrade—with its FlexTrader platform—takes the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product—Numerix
Numerix maintains its crown among sell-side credit risk products, winning the best sell-side credit risk category for the fifth straight time in the Sell-Side Technology Awards. A vendor’s ability to hold its spot in the winners’ circle for that long…
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: Broadridge Retains its Outsourcing Crown
Victor Anderson speaks to Broadridge's Michael Alexander about various aspects of the firm's outsourcing business in the wake of its second consecutive win in the best outsourcing category at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards.
SST Awards 2017 Winners’ Interview: SmartStream Maintains its Reconciliations Dominance
SmartStream continued it domination of the reconciliations category at this year's SST Awards, thanks to its TLM Reconciliations Premium platform. Victor Anderson speaks to Rocky Martinez about what sets the offering apart in a highly competitive…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
Since the launch of the Sell-Side Technology Awards five years ago, there has been only one winner of the best cloud provider category—BT with its BT Radianz Cloud.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—AlphaPoint
Back in June 2016, Waters attended the sixth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, held at Bank of America’s One Bryant Park offices. One of the eight profiled startups on the day was Madison Avenue-based AlphaPoint, whose platform was…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Data Management Product—IHS Markit
It may return to the Sell-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle with a slightly different name, but IHS Markit has again triumphed in the best sell-side data management product category. This year’s victory makes it four wins out of a possible five for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Market Risk Product—FIS
There is no questioning the importance of banks having a proper risk management platform in place. However, the January 1, 2019, implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) has made market risk platforms even more of a top-of-mind…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Data Provider to the Sell Side—Thomson Reuters
On the day of the Brexit referendum, Thomson Reuters’ Elektron platform processed 30 billion live updates in 24 hours, while at the time of the result’s announcement they peaked at 10 million updates per second. In an era where data volumes are exploding…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System—Cloud9 Technologies
For the second straight year, it is Cloud9 Technologies taking home the best sell-side communication system award in what’s becoming an increasingly competitive category.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Network—IPC Systems
The trading network landscape has become a highly competitive one over the last few years, with multiple providers struggling to find their place. Good reflexes and continuous evolution of services are essential to making headway in this ultra…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Outsourcing Provider to the Sell Side—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge follows up last year’s win in this category by winning it again, and by so doing becomes the second two-time winner of this award after Saxo Bank won it in 2014 and 2015.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—IHS Markit
The newcomer categories in the Sell-Side Technology and Buy-Side Technology Awards are by far and away the most popular, regularly attracting 20-plus entries. This year Waters received 21 entries, which, after the first round of voting, were whittled…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Overall Sell-Side Product of the Year—Nasdaq
The best overall product category is traditionally one of only two announced at the annual Sell-Side and Buy-Side Technology Awards held in New York and London, respectively.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year—IHS Markit
Like it or not, many in the industry were uncertain just how Markit and two of its highest profile acquisitions—Cadis, acquired in May 2012, and thinkFolio, some 18 months later in early 2014—would get on together.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—SmartStream
SmartStream wins the best sell-side reconciliation platform at the SST Awards for the fifth straight year, thanks to its TLM Reconciliations-Premium offering.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Synechron
Synechron’s Blockchain Accelerator Program helped it win two awards at this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards: best distributed-ledger technology project and best use of the Agile methodology.
SST Awards 2017 Winners' Interview—Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions won the best outsourcing provider category for the second straight year at this year's Sell Side Technology Awards held at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Compliance Product—AcadiaSoft
AcadiaSoft returns to this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards winners’ circle after its win in 2016 as the best sell-side newcomer. This year, AcadiaSoft Hub has been named the best compliance product, a category that has seen a different winner each…