Awards categories
Awards categories
Service/initiative categories (January 2024 to April 2025)*
*All of the initiatives/projects entered into the categories below must pertain to the period from January 2024 to April 2025
Best AI/machine learning data initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative AI/ML-driven initiative that enhances data quality, accuracy and accessibility, while also demonstrating measurable business outcomes.
Best alternative data initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative alternative data solution that enhances market insights and informs business and investment decisions, while also demonstrating accuracy, transparency and scalability.
Best corporate actions data initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative corporate actions data initiative that demonstrates accuracy and transparency, while simultaneously improving automation/straight-through processing of corporate actions information/messages.
Best private markets data initiative
Judges are looking for innovation, transparency and accuracy in the sourcing, collection, analysis and delivery of private markets data.
Best ESG data initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative ESG data initiative that demonstrates the voracity, transparency and accuracy of ESG data with the view to improving sustainability-focused insights and investment goals.
Best counterparty data project or initiative
Judges are looking for an impactful counterparty data project that enhances the all-round efficiency, accuracy and transparency of counterparty data with the view to mitigating market, credit and operational risks.
Best enterprise data management initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative project that enhances data quality, governance, integration, dissemination and discoverability/accessibility.
Best reference data initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative reference data initiative that enhances the accuracy, transparency and efficiency of reference data across the enterprise, ensuring regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.
Best real-time market data initiative
Judges are looking for an initiative that delivers reliable and robust high-quality market data with minimal added latency from a wide range of /sources exchanges.
Best risk data aggregation initiative
Judges are looking for an initiative that enhances firms’ risk data aggregation capabilities, providing them with accurate and aggregated views of their total risk exposure.
Most innovative market data project/initiative
Judges are looking for a groundbreaking market data initiative that illustrates accuracy, transparency, operational robustness and scalability.
Most innovative regulatory solution/initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative project designed to enhance regulatory compliance, efficiency, and transparency across a range of industry rules, regulations and mandates.
Best reference data managed service
Judges are looking for a reference data managed service that delivers accuracy, reliability, scalability, and innovation, while also supporting all-round operational efficiency and data integration with downstream systems.
Best market data managed service
Judges are looking for a market data managed service that demonstrates robustness, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, while simultaneously providing users with easy access to high-quality market data.
Best data governance solution
Judges are looking for a data governance framework designed to ensure the accuracy, availability and all-round integrity of the data residing within an organization, while also allowing its dissemination across the business in compliance with the firm’s data governance rules.
Best data analytics initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative project that allows users to accurately and efficiently interrogate large, complex datasets in order to make the most judicious business and investment decisions.
Best regulatory reporting solution/initiative
Judges are looking for an innovative project/initiative that allows users to enhance their all-round regulatory compliance, while simultaneously streamlining various operational processes and ensuring data quality and integrity.
Best data feed management solution
Judges are looking for a service/platform designed to deliver curated, easy-to-consume data that can be fed into existing platforms with the minimum of fuss, allowing users to make the most informed, judicious and defendable business and investment decisions.
Vendor/provider categories
The categories below are open to all data and technology vendors/providers, while those specified are open exclusively to exchanges and brokers.
Best alternative data provider
Judges are looking for a provider that offers innovative sourcing and collation of alternative data, along with accuracy, timeliness and ease of integration with other data types and transparency.
Best ESG data provider
Judges are looking for an ESG data provider that offers broad coverage, accuracy, transparency and ease of integration of its various datasets supporting sustainable investment and risk management decisions.
Best private markets data provider
Judges are looking for a provider that offers extensive entity coverage, accuracy, timeliness and transparency around the private markets data it provides the market.
Best corporate actions data provider
Judges are looking for a provider that offers accuracy, timeliness, global coverage, high levels of straight-though processing/automation and ease of integration of the corporate actions data/messages it provides the market.
Best data analytics provider
Judges are looking for ease of use, accuracy, ideally AI-driven insights and seamless integration of its analytics tools, allowing users to make more informed business and investment decisions.
Best enterprise data management vendor
Judges are looking for a provider that supports a broad range of data management functions, including flexibility, scalability data surfacing/cataloguing, integration/interfacing with downstream systems and operational efficiency/robustness.
Best evaluated pricing service provider
Judges are looking for a provider that offers high-quality, accurate and reliable pricing data along with full transparency and the ability for clients to challenge prices (and speak to specialists) in the event of challenges/queries.
Best low-latency data or technology provider
Judges are looking for a provider offering the market ultra-low-latency data along with reliability and scalability and a range of flexible, efficient delivery options.
Best market data newcomer (vendor or product)
Judges are looking for a market data provider or product/service established between January 2024 and April 2025 that offers innovation and differentiation, while also addressing real-world market data challenges.
Best market data provider (broker)
Judges are looking for a broker offering speed, accuracy, broad instrument coverage and flexible and reliable delivery options around the data it provides its clients.
Best market data provider (exchange)
Judges are looking for an exchange offering speed, accuracy, broad instrument coverage and flexible and reliable delivery options around the data it provides its clients.
Best market data provider (vendor)
Judges are looking for a market data vendor offering speed, accuracy, broad instrument coverage and flexible and reliable delivery options around the data it provides its clients.
Best reference data integration vendor
Judges are looking for a vendor/service that supports all-round reference data management, including security master, pricing and corporate actions data, while also offering scalability, high levels of automation and operational robustness.
Best market data newcomer (vendor or product)
Judges are looking for a market data provider or product/service established between January 2024 and April 2025 that offers innovation and differentiation, while also addressing real-world market data challenges.
Best reference data provider
Judges are looking for a reference data provider offering broad market and instrument coverage, timeliness, high levels of automation and operational robustness.
Best research provider
Judges are looking for a provider of market research/intelligence offering its clients broad instrument/market coverage, in addition to sourcing, collating and delivering accurate and transparent research/data allowing them to make better informed business and investment decisions.
Best cloud-based data provider
Judges are looking for a provider of cloud-based market, reference or pricing data offering broad markets coverage, speed (time) to market, reliability and scalability in addition to operational robustness and security.