2024 Markets Choice Awards Finalists

Listed below are some of the finalists for certain categories in Markets Media Group’s 2024 Markets Choice Awards.

The awards event will be held on the evening of Thursday, May 9, at Central Park Boathouse in New York City.

Best Buy-Side Trading Desk

AllianceBernstein

BlackRock

Fidelity

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

JP Morgan Asset Management

State Street Global Advisors

T. Rowe Price

UBS Asset Management

Best Sell-Side Trading Desk

Bank of America

Citi

Evercore

Goldman Sachs

Instinet

Jefferies

JP Morgan

Mizuho Americas

Morgan Stanley

Best Equities Trading Platform

BIDS (Cboe Global Markets)

IntelligentCross (Imperative Execution)

JPM-X

LeveL ATS

PureStream

Sigma X (Goldman Sachs)

UBS ATS

Best Fixed Income Trading Platform

Bloomberg

MarketAxess

Tradeweb

Trumid

Best Global Exchange Group

Cboe Global Markets

CME Group

Deutsche Boerse

Intercontinental Exchange

LSEG

Nasdaq

Excellence in Buy-Side Trading

Marc Bousquet, Fidelity 

John Bright, Fidelity 

Mark Gurliacci, AllianceBernstein

William Lishman, Schroders

Kevin McKegney, BlackRock

Andrew Parra, Goldman Sachs Asset Management 

Derek Schoenhofen, BlackRock 

Eden Simmer, Pimco

Ken Zimmer, Geode Capital Management 

Best New Product

DSB’s Unique Product Identifier (UPI)

KCx Pulse Algorithm

MarketsIO EventStream

Precision UST Algos

Ridgeline

State Street Alpha AI Data Quality (AADQ)

Mizuho Corporate Culture Award

Baird

BlackRock

JPMorgan Chase

Morgan Stanley

Societe Generale

State Street Global Advisors

Lifetime Achievement

Keith Banks, Bank of America (Ret.)

Tim Buckley, Vanguard 

Kevin Cronin, Invesco (Ret.) 

Jim Esposito, Goldman Sachs (Ret.)

Peter Hayes, BlackRock (Ret.)

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Resources 

Rodney Martin, Voya Financial (Ret.)

Please note: Markets Choice Awards finalists are a snapshot of where we are in the evaluation process. The lists are not final, and not being listed does not preclude consideration for an award. We reserve the right to drop, modify or add awards categories for the final MCA program.