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Crypto Dominates 2025 Global Markets Choice Awards—Traditional Finance Grumbles Into Its Overpriced Coffee
Crypto Dominates 2025 Global Markets Choice Awards—Traditional Finance Grumbles Into Its Overpriced Coffee
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DeFi protocols and blockchain innovators swept the 2025 awards, leaving legacy banks scrambling to justify their 'blockchain working groups.'
Winners include:
- Best Liquidity Engine: A DEX aggregator that processes more volume than the NYSE—without the $50M CEO bonus.
- Most Disruptive Token: A privacy coin that actually works (much to regulators' dismay).
Judges praised 'real-world utility' while hedge fund managers quietly updated their LinkedIn bios to 'Web3 curious.' The afterparty? Paid in BTC, naturally.
Markets Media Group’s inaugural Global Markets Choice Awards was held Thursday, June 5, at Central Park Boathouse in New York City.
Congratulations to the winners!
| INFRASTRUCTURE | |
| Best Sell-Side Trading Desk | Bank of America |
| Best Emerging Market Exchange | BMV Group |
| Most Innovative Exchange Group | IEX |
| Best Exchange Group | Intercontinental Exchange |
| Innovator – Fixed Income | Trumid |
| Innovator – Equities | Imperative Execution |
| Best in Digital Assets | LMAX |
| Best in Derivatives | CME Group |
| Best in Fixed Income | Tradeweb |
| Best in Clearing | DTCC |
| Best in Equities | NYSE Group |
| CEO of the Year | Loh Boon Chye, Singapore Exchange |
| Mizuho Corporate Culture | Broadridge |
| TECHNOLOGY | |
| Best in Cloud | Adaptive |
| Best Multi Asset Class Front-to-Back Solution | SimCorp |
| Best in AI | LTX |
| Best OMS | Aladdin by BlackRock |
| Best OEMS | Bloomberg |
| Best Algorithm Provider | Clearpool |
| Best Derivatives Trading System | Trading Technologies |
| Best Exchange Technology | Nasdaq |
| Best Digital Platform | JP Morgan Markets |
| Neil DeSena Market Advocate Award | Mark Govoni, Liquidnet |
| MARKET PARTICIPANTS | |
| Best in Investment Advisory | Park Avenue Securities |
| Best in CLOs | Mizuho Americas |
| Best Liquidity Provider | Citadel Securities |
| Best Buy-Side Trading Team – Listed Products | JP Morgan Asset Management |
| Best Buy-Side Trading Team – OTC Products | T. Rowe Price |
| Best Buy-Side Flow Trading Team | BlackRock |
| Best in Equity Research | Mizuho Americas |
| Best Quantitative Investment Team | Citadel – GQS |
| Excellence in Trading | Lauren Weintraub, Macquarie Asset Management |
| Excellence in Quantitative Trading | Kaustuv Dasgupta, Two Sigma |
| Best Pension Trading Team | Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan |
| Most Inspirational Buy-Side Trading Leader | Andrew Munro, Janus Henderson |
| Best Company | Jane Street |
| Lifetime Achievement | Daniel Pinto, JP Morgan |
Stayed tuned for event photos and editorial interviews.
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