Nominations for the 2017 Markets Choice Awards are open through Friday, February 10.

The MCAs span the most important sectors of institutional trading and investing – buy-side investors, traders and trading desks, sell-side execution desks, exchanges and platforms, traditional technology providers and emerging fintech firms.

Award winners in the previous four years include a veritable Who’s Who of buy-side and sell-side institutional trading: BlackRock, Fidelity, JP Morgan Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, and many more.     

The methodology in crafting shortlists and then winners is simple yet thorough, and keeps the focus on the most important opinions: those of market participants. 

As a first step in our process, we’re asking for your help in nominating the companies, individuals and innovation that deserve recognition. These can be your customers, colleagues, competitors, or even yourself! Just tell us the who, what and why – the better the supporting information, the better the nomination. 

After nominations are in, Markets Media will  conduct editorial interviews with leaders in financial markets for their on-the-ground views of who deserves consideration. We will also have regular consultations with our MCA Advisory Board for further insights in hammering out shortlists. This year, equity market awards will include perspectives from the readership of our recently acquired Traders Magazine. 

Join Markets Media and Traders Magazine in NYC in April for the 5th Annual MCAs, the premier event for identifying and recognizing the best companies, individuals and innovation in financial markets.