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Bloomberg Takes Home Four Waters Rankings Awards

July 25, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Bloomberg has won the following four Waters Rankings Awards.

Best Sell-Side Order Management System (OMS) Provider

Best Market Data Provider 

Best Reference Data Provider

Best Managed Data Service Provider

The annual Waters Rankings Awards celebrate and recognize the initiatives, innovation and achievements of the industry’s technology and data providers over the past twelve months. These awards are voted on by thousands of end users across the buy-side and the sell-side – Bloomberg’s clients.

This is the seventh year in a row, and the eleventh time in the past twelve years, that Bloomberg TOMS has won for Best Sell Side Order Management System Provider – a testament to the strength of this offering and the value it brings to customers. Aside from providing robust multi-asset OEMS functionality, customers get access to all of Bloomberg’s news, analytics and data, as well as pricing and trading tools, automated market-making and connectivity. The suite also provides client insights to inform trading and helps synchronize front office risk and trading with middle-office, operations, and enterprise applications in real-time. New features for FX and list trading have recently been added and the solution is also continually enhanced with next generation automation tools and data science-driven analytics.

This marks Bloomberg’s fifth Market Data award in 2022 and the fourth year in a row Bloomberg has won this award at the Waters Rankings. B-PIPE, Bloomberg’s flagship Market Data feed, delivers consolidated and normalized real-time streaming prices to service the full spectrum of front office use cases. B-PIPE differentiates itself with its fully managed offering, through data quality and reliability, and by providing  unique real-time content natively  in each of the three major public cloud providers globally.

In addition, Bloomberg has won Best Reference Data Provider for the fourth year in a row due to its unmatched depth and breadth, consistent product innovation and unwavering focus on making it as easy as possible for clients to consume comprehensive reference data. Bloomberg’s robust Reference Data offering encompasses timely and accurate terms & conditions, corporate actions, ESG, company financials, supply chain, holdings & ownership and legal entity data. Clients all over the world use this critical foundational data to feed their operational workflows and inform decision making across the front, middle and back office.

Bloomberg Data Management Services (DMS) also won the award for Best Managed Data Service Provider. DMS enables clients to take control of their data supply chain and unlock data value in days, not quarters. Clients can easily join their entity and instrument data to full third party ESG datasets, with customization and transparency, efficiently delivered through a robust managed platform for today and tomorrow’s data workflows. Bloomberg DMS is built on decades of experience managing financial data. Differentiators include transparency and traceability in the data supply chain and a living Unified Data Model within a cloud data management platform that provides needed consistency and precision for downstream applications and table-ready data delivered directly to a cloud data warehouse.

To see the full list of winners, click here.

To learn more about Bloomberg’s solutions, visit our website here.