WINNERS
| Best in Fintech | Battea |
| Excellence in AI | 7 Chord |
| Best Fixed Income Execution | GX2 Systems |
| Best Trading Infrastructure Analytics | Corvil |
| Best Execution Management System (EMS) | TradingScreen |
| Best Order Management System (OMS) | smartTrade Technologies |
| Best Cryptocurrency Trading Platform | smartTrade Technologies |
| Best Options Trading Broker | Dash Financial Technologies |
| Best New Trading Platform | Fenics USTreasuries |
| Best New Product | DTCC Exception Manager |
| Best New Algo Trading Product | Cantor Fitzgerald Precision |
| Best in Data | ICE Data Services |
| Best Clearing House | OCC |
| Best Crypto Exchange | Gemini |
| Best Exchange Group | Nasdaq |
| Best Fixed Income Trading Platform | MarketAxess |
| Positive Change, Visionaries | Jerome Pustilnik, Instinet Co-Founder (Posthumous) |
| Positive Change, Diversity | BNP Paribas |
| Positive Change, Philanthropy | Bryan Harkins, Cboe Global Markets |
| Excellence in Equities Trading | Frank Loughlin, AllianceBernstein |
| Best Buy-Side Fixed Income Trading Technology | Wellington Management |
| Best M&A Deal | CME Group - NEX Group |
| Best Hedge Fund | Citadel |
| Best Global Trading Team | BlackRock |
| Best Buy-Side Trading Desk | AllianceBernstein |
| Neil DeSena Market Advocate Award | Rishi Nangalia |
| Best Algorithmic Trading Company | Clearpool Group |
| Best Company | Virtu Financial |
| CEO of the Year | Lee Olesky, Tradeweb Markets |
| Person of the Year | Yie-Hsin Hung, New York Life Investment Management |
| Lifetime Achievement |
Andrew M. Brooks, T. Rowe Price Associates |
Rising Star Maria Adamjee, CenturyLink
Rising Star Anshul Anand, Thesys Technologies
Rising Star Kelly Anlas, Clearpool Group
Rising Star Tim Coates, Synechron
Rising Star Maria Dwyer, GlobalCollateral
Rising Star Allison Gott, Citadel Securities
Rising Star Tyler Hallmark, OpenDoor Securities
Rising Star Alexandria McGrath, Vela
Rising Star Tim Miller, Dash Financial Technologies
Rising Star Erica Thomas, Tradeweb Markets
Best New Block Trading Product CODA Block
Best Clearinghouse Options Clearing Corporation
Best Sell Side OMS Fidessa
Best in AI Synechron AI Accelerators
Best Fixed Income Trading Platform Tradeweb Markets
Best Buy-Side EMS Portware Enterprise, a FactSet Trading Solution
Best Exchange Technology Nasdaq
Best Mid-Sized Broker-Dealer Clearpool Group
Best in RegTech Thesys Technologies
Best New Trading Platform OpenDoor Securities
Best Dark Pool Luminex Trading & Analytics
Best Fixed Income Data Provider MTS BondsPro
Best Multi-Asset EMS FlexTrade
Best Agency Broker Instinet
Best Enterprise Risk Management Aplomb Strategies
Best Algorithmic Trading Provider Dash Financial Technologies
Best Global Exchange Group CME Group
Best New Product GlobalCollateral’s Margin Transit Utility
Neil DeSena Market Advocate Award Greg Tusar
Best Buy-Side Fixed Income Trading Technology Wellington Management
Best Buy-Side Equity Index Trading Desk Vanguard
Buy-Side Quantitative Trader of the Year Enrico Cacciatorre Voya Investment Management
Best Hedge Fund Trading Desk AQR
Best Buy-Side Equity Trading Desk J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Efficiency and Resourcefulness in Trading Mark Louka, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Best Buy-Side Fixed Income Trading Desk State Street Global Advisors
Best Buy-Side Trading Enterprise BlackRock
Buy-Side Trader of the Year Dan Royal, Janus Henderson Investors
Woman of the Year Jen Nayar, Vela
Best Company Liquidnet
CEO of the Year Michelle Neal, BNY Mellon Markets
Lifetime Achievement Terry Duffy, CME Group
Best New Product – Dark Pool Trading Fidessa BlockShadow
Best New Product – Execution FlexAlgoWheel
Lifetime Achievement Larry Eugene Thompson, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Best Company Citadel Securities
Best Buy-Side Fixed Income Trading Desk BlackRock, Inc.
Best Buy-Side Equity Trading Desk J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Best Buy-Side FX Trading Desk T. Rowe Price
Best Global Exchange Group London Stock Exchange Group
Best Clearing House The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Market Advocate Award Neil V. DeSena, SenaHill Partners, LP
CEO of the Year Jen Nayar, Vela
Woman of the Year Adena T. Friedman, Nasdaq
Trader of the Year Fixed Income Sam Priyadarshi, Vanguard
Trader of the Year Equities Nanette J. Buziak, Voya Investment Management
Excellence in Block Trading Mike Bellaro, Deutsche Asset Management
Excellence in ETF Trading Julie Abbett, J.P. Morgan
Excellence in Electronic Trading Linn Karstadt, Jefferies
Best Buy-Side EMS Portware, A FactSet Company
Best OMS Fidessa
Best New Product FlexONE
Best Multi-Asset EMS FlexTrade Systems
Best FinTech Company OpenDoor Trading, LLC
Best Fixed Income Trading Platform Liquidnet
Best ETF Platform Tradeweb Markets
Best New Risk Product Lime Watchdog Risk System, Lime Brokerage LLC
Best Emerging Fixed Income Trading Platform Trumid
Best Emerging Equity Trading Platform Luminex Trading & Analytics LLC
Best in Cloud Abacus Group
Best New Initiative Synechron Blockchain Accelerators
Rising Star Brittany Callaghan, FXSpotStream
Rising Star Sandra Delmore, Liquidnet, Inc.
Rising Star Robert LaMura, OpenDoor Trading, LLC
Rising Star Patrick Menard, Lime Brokerage LLC
Rising Star Priya Prasad, Citadel Securities
Rising Star Jennifer Tkachuk-Tremblay, TD Securities
Rising Star Vincenzo Vedda, Deutsche Asset Management
Rising Star Jon Watras, Hotspot
Best Agency Broker Convergex
Best Algorithmic Trading Platform Clearpool Autonomy
Best Asset Manager BlackRock
Best Buy-Side Derivatives Trading Desk Vanguard
Best Buy-Side Equity Trading Desk J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Best Buy-Side Fixed Income Trading Desk AB
Best Buy-Side Trading Desk Deutsche Asset Management
Best Buy-Side Trading Technology Neuberger Berman
Best Clearing House LCH.Clearnet
Best Consultancy Sapient
Best CTO Mark Etherington
Best ETF Liquidity Provider Bloomberg Tradebook
Best Exchange Technology Provider MillenniumIT
Best Fixed Income Trading Platform Tradeweb
Best Futures Exchange CME Group
Best FX EMS FlexTrade
Best Hedge Fund BlueMountain Capital Management
Best M&A Deal FactSet-Portware
Best Mid-Sized Buy-Side Equity Trading Desk The Boston Company
Best Multi-Asset EMS FlexTrade
Best New Product Algomi Honeycomb
Best New Trading Platform Luminex
Best Order Management System Fidessa
Best Public Pension Plan Colorado PERA
Best Systematic Trading Technology Lime Brokerage
Lifetime Achievement Barbara Novick
Women in Finance, Outstanding Contribution Catherine Wood
Best Algorithm Provider Credit Suisse
Best Asset Manager Fidelity Investments
Best Bank Broker-Dealer Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Best Buy-Side Dark Pool Liquidnet
Best Buy-Side EMS Portware
Best Buy-Side Equity Trading Desk T. Rowe Price
Best Buy-Side Multi-Asset Trading Desk Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Best Company BlackRock
Best Electronic Liquidity Provider Citadel Securities
Best Equity Exchange Nasdaq
Best ETF Liquidity Provider Jane Street
Best ETF Provider BlackRock iShares
Best Financial Services Cloud Provider The Beast Apps
Best Fixed-Income Algorithm Provider Quantitative Brokers
Best Fixed-Income Trading Platform Tradeweb
Best Fund Administrator State Street
Best FX TCA FlexTrade
Best Global Exchange CME Group
Best Hedge Fund Two Sigma
Best Hedge Fund Trading Desk AQR Capital Management
Best Multi-Asset EMS FlexTrade
Best New Clearing Product Traiana Harmony CCP Connect for Equities
Best New Data Product Bloomberg Tradebook Strategy Analyzer (STAZ)
Best New Product Perseus LiquidPath
Best Options Exchange Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
Best Public Pension Plan Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System
Best Swap Execution Facility Bloomberg SEF
Best TCA Provider Markit
Best Technology Company REDI
Lifetime Achievement Duncan Niederauer
Most Influential Person Michael Bloomberg
Most Innovative New Product ITG RFQ-hub
Women in Finance Outstanding Contribution Mee Warren
Lifetime Achievement Thomas Joyce
Most Influential Person Jeff Sprecher, IntercontinentalExchange
Best Company MARKIT
Best Asset Manager Fidelity Investments
Best Buy-Side Trading Desk Invesco
Best Buy-Side Derivatives Trading Desk Allianz Global Investors
Best Bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Best Co-Location Facilities Provider Equinix
Best Dark Pool Barclays LX
Best Futures Exchange CME Group
Best Multi-Asset EMS FlexTrade Systems
Most Innovative New Product Perseus Telecom, High Precision Time
Best Fixed Income Trading Platform Tradeweb Markets
Best Algorithm Provider Credit Suisse
Best Post-Trade Services TRAIANA
Best Exchange Technology BATS Global Markets
Best Data Provider Bloomberg
Best Options Exchange Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
Best Technology Company REDI
Best M&A Deal IntercontinentalExchange-NYSE Euronext
Best Buy-Side EMS Portware
Best Equities Trading Platform Deutsche Bank Autobahn
Innovators of the Year IEX Group
Best Buy-Side Dark Pool Liquidnet
Best Options Technology OptionCity Software
Best Derivatives Risk-Management System Calypso Technology
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Join Markets Media and Traders Magazine for the 6th Annual Markets Choice Awards in NYC, the premier event for identifying and recognizing the best companies, individuals and innovation in financial markets.
The black-tie evening awards gala will be held Thursday, April 25, 2019 at Tribeca 360.
The MCAs span the most important sectors of institutional trading and technology – buy-side traders; sell-side execution desks; exchanges and platforms; incumbent technology providers and emerging fintech firms.
Our methodology in selecting nominees and then winners is simple yet thorough, and keeps the focus on the most important opinions: those of market participants.
Nominations are open now through February 28th. Following that we will put out shortlists for online polling, and finally determine winners from online responses, editorial interviews with leaders in financial markets, and consultation with our own MCA Advisory Board.
Please stay tuned for more information.
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