The winners of this year’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology (ITT) Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best cloud-based trading environment to best trading analytics platform and best consolidated market data feed. Consultancy categories covered best specialist trading technology consultancy and best specialist market data consultancy. A special award, sponsored by high performance network services firm BSO, celebrated Fintech Innovation.
The A-Team ITT Awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors and consultancies providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology and market data solutions. This year’s awards received a large volume of votes and celebrated not only winning vendors of trading technology solutions, but also highly commended providers that came very close in the voting. A complete list of winners and highly commended vendors can be found below.
The awards were presented to winning organisations by Andrew Delaney, president and chief content officer at A-Team Group, during a celebratory drinks reception following the company’s 2018 Intelligent Trading Technology Summit in New York City.
Delaney says: “Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 ITT awards and thank you to all the companies that entered their trading technology solutions, services and consultancy expertise. It is my pleasure to present the awards to some of the high-flyers helping trading organisations maximise their potential while remaining compliant.”
A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Technology award winners
| Category | Award winner |
| Best Low Latency Data Feed – Direct | RedlineFeed |
| Best Low Latency Data Feed – Managed | Thomson Reuters Elektron as a Service |
| Best Consolidated Market Data Feed | Bloomberg B-Pipe |
| Best High Performance Data Feed Handler – Software | Vela |
| Best High Performance Data Feed Handler – Software | RedlineFeed – Highly Commended |
| Best High Performance Data Feed Handler – Hardware | NovaSparks |
| Best High Performance Market Access Solution | Enyx – nxAccess |
| Best Machine-Readable News Supplier | RavenPack |
| Best Alternative Data Provider | Estimize |
| Best Cloud-Based Data Solution | BMLL Technologies |
| Best Cloud-Based Data Solution | SteelEye – Highly Commended |
| Best Market Data Provider | Bloomberg |
| Best Market Data Inventory Platform | MDSL |
| Best Specialist Market Data Consultancy | 3d innovations |
| Best Trading Analytics Platform | OneTick Analytics |
| Best Broker-Supplied Algorithm Suite | ITG Algorithms |
| Best Electronic Agency Broker Execution | Instinet |
| Best Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Tool for Best Execution | Dash 360 |
| Best Trade Reconstruction Solution for Best Execution | Fonetic / Trade Comms Suite |
| Best Trade Reconstruction Solution for Best Execution | Shield FC / Shield 2.0 – Highly Commended |
| Best Time-Stamping / Latency Measurement System | Corvil |
| Best Time-Stamping / Latency Measurement System | Solarflare – Highly Commended |
| Best Sell-Side EMS | Horizon Software |
| Best Buy-Side EMS | Portware Enterprise |
| Best Sell-Side OMS | smartTrade |
| Best Buy-Side OMS | Fidessa IMS |
| Best Smart Order Routing System | Itiviti-Ullink UL Smart |
| Best Pre-Trade Risk Controls Provider | Hyannis Port Research |
| Best Market Access Gateway | PrimeXM / XCore |
| Best Cloud-Based Trading Environment | IPC Systems |
| Best Trading and Risk Management System for Post Trade | FIS |
| Best Trading and Risk Management System for Post Trade | Calypso – Highly Commended |
| Best Proximity Hosting Data Centre | Equinix |
| Best Trading Infrastructure Monitoring Platform | Metamako |
| Best Trading Infrastructure Monitoring Platform | Corvil – Highly Commended |
| Best High Performance Network Services | BSO |
| Best Managed Services for Trading | Pico |
| Best Managed Services for Trading | QuantHouse – Highly Commended |
| Best Specialist Trading Technology Consultancy | Citihub Consulting |
| BSO Award for Fintech Innovation | Market EarlyBird |
| BSO Award for Fintech Innovation | Features Analytics – Highly Commended |
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