They’re back!
It’s awards season and now is the time to get involved. Join Markets Media and Traders Magazine for the 8th 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 in April 2020.
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.
Prior winners from 2019 include:
| 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 |
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.
