European Markets Choice Awards 2021 – The Finalists

Best Execution and The DESK are delighted to announce the finalists in the inaugural European Markets Choice Awards, sponsored by Instinet and Tradeweb.

The Awards recognise excellence and identify the leading companies and individuals in institutional trading and technology.

Every aspect is covered from buy and sellside execution desks, to exchanges and platforms, incumbent technology providers, regtech firms as well as up and coming fintech firms. We look at achievements over the past year, innovative contributions and future developments.

The nominations are generated by the industry, for the industry and the methodology for choosing the winners is based on reviewing submissions, industry information and consultations from a wide range of market experts.

Save the date/time: Thursday, Jun 24 at 4:30 pm (BST) for the virtual awards reception. And we look forward to seeing everyone live and in-person, next year.

1. CEO OF THE YEAR
• Andrea Pignataro, founder and CEO of ION Trading
• David Schwimmer, CEO, LSEG
• Rob McKay, CEO, Itiviti

2. LIQUIDITY PROVIDER (Equities)
• Citadel Securities
• Credit Suisse
• Goldman Sachs

3. LIQUIDITY PROVIDER (Fixed Income)
• Citadel Securities
• Jane Street
• JP Morgan

4. FIXED INCOME ALPHA GENERATOR (Buy-Side)
• M&G
• PIMCO
• Standard Life Aberdeen

5. EQUITY ALPHA GENERATOR (Buy-Side)
• Allianz Global Investors
• BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM)
• Schroders

6. BUY-SIDE EQUITIES TRADING DESK
• Allianz Global Investors
• Man Group
• Union Investment

7. BUY-SIDE FIXED INCOME TRADING DESK
• BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM)
• KBC Asset Management
• Pictet Asset Management

8. SELL-SIDE EQUITIES TRADING DESK
• Goldman Sachs
• Kepler Cheuvreux
• Morgan Stanley
• Wells Fargo

9. SELL-SIDE FIXED INCOME TRADING DESK
• Citadel Securities
• Citi
• JP Morgan

10. EQUITIES E/OMS
• Factset
• Instinet Newport
• Itiviti

11. FIXED INCOME E/OMS
• Aladdin
• Bloomberg
• Charles River

12. TRADING ANALYTICS TOOL
• big XYT
• MarketAxess
• Virtu

13. TRADING VENUE (OTC PRODUCTS)
• Bloomberg
• Brokertec
• FXAll
• MarketAxess
• MTS
• Tradeweb

14.TRADING VENUE (FLOW PRODUCTS)
• CBOE Europe
• Eurex
• LSEG

15. MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATOR
• Derivatives Service Bureau
• Eurex Clearing
• LCH Clearnet
• TriOptima

16. BEST COMPANY
• Allianz Global Investors
• BTON Financial
• JP Morgan
• MarketAxess

17. BEST REGTECH/ AML SOLUTIONS COMPANY
• ComplyAdvantage
• Fenergo
• Nice Actimize

18. BEST REGTECH/ DATA SOLUTIONS COMPANY
• Kaizen Reporting
• Nice Actimize
• Smartstream

19. BEST POST TRADE COMPANY
• Baton Systems
• Cassini Systems
• TP ICAP

20. INSTINET SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
• Amundi Asset Management
• Euronext
• Federated Hermes
• Schroders

Please note: the European Markets Choice Awards shortlists are a snapshot of where we are in the evaluation process. The shortlist is not final, and not being listed does not absolutely preclude consideration for an award. We reserve the right to drop or modify some of the shortlist awards categories, which includes the option of including additional categories in the final EMCA programme not listed here.

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