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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,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Low-Latency Trading Network—Interactive Data
Speed, reliability and connectivity are the three biggest concerns when it comes to selecting a low-latency trading network, and this year Interactive Data’s 7ticks proved to be the best among a competitive bunch, becoming the second winner—after CFN…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side CRM Platform—SS&C Advent Software
SS&C Advent Software APX might have had a tweak to its name since this time last year, thanks to its acquisition by SS&C in February 2015, but it nonetheless reclaims the award for the best buy-side customer relationship management (CRM) product,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Risk Management Initiative Over the Last 12 Months—IBM
In a year that has witnessed an impressive streak of consolidation and acquisition, there are surely a few out there still wistfully longing for the days when this winner was known as Algorithmics. IBM bought the provider in 2011 for $387 million, well…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Implementation at a Buy-Side Firm—Vermilion Software
In the write-up of this category for last year’s BST Awards, we noted Vermilion’s significant achievement in following up on its success in the 2013 awards by winning the best implementation category for a second year in succession, an achievement…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side EMS—Portware
For the third time in four years, Portware, recently acquired by FactSet, walks away with the best buy-side execution-management system (EMS) category. Buy-side trading desks are under increasing pressure to maintain execution quality while transaction…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side OMS—Charles River Development
Welcome back, Charles River! When the Buy-Side Technology Awards launched in 2007, it was Charles River at the top of the best OMS category. The Burlington-based vendor followed up that feat with wins in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The next four years, though,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Newcomer (Vendor or Product)—Algomi
By far our most crowded category, the best newcomer always produces a diversity of challenges and considerations for the judges to sort through. Unsurprisingly, these considerations have produced some varied results. Recent winners, S3 Partners (2014),…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product—BI-SAM
Ask any buy-side firm about their raison d’être and performance is likely to feature prominently in pretty much every response, irrespective of the size of the firm, the complexity of its investment strategies and operations, and the number of years it…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Management Product—Markit EDM
In April this year, Markit won the best data management provider category in the Sell-Side Technology Awards, a win that yielded the following statement in the category’s write-up in the May 2015 issue of Waters: “It’s a challenge when it comes to…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform—Bloomberg
Bloomberg won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best commodities trading platform.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics Product—UBS Delta
Which technology besides a firm’s order management system and its performance capabilities is more important to a buy-side firm than risk analytics? As a result, very few categories among our awards are as competitive as this one. In fact, four different…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Algorithmic/DMA Product or Service—Dash Financial
Dash Financial won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best algorithmic or direct market access provider.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Fund Administrator—SEI
SEI won this year's Buy-Side Technology Award for best fund administrator.