11 February 2021, Paris & Hanoi: Horizon Software (Horizon), provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, today congratulates its partner SSI Securities Corporation (SSI) for winning 31 out of a total of 32 awards in 28 categories honoring organization and individuals under the 31st annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll organized by Asiamoney -Asia’s leading magazine, a member of the prestigious group Euromoney Institutional Investor.
SSI is a Vietnam-based provider of financial investment services and is a leading broker on the Hochiminh Stock Exchange (HSX). For this year annual poll, SSI recently marked their 7th consecutive time that they have won two important categories, namely “The best local brokerage in Vietnam” and “The best or overall research in Vietnam”. Besides, SSI is received “Best for overall sales”, “Best for corporate access” and “Best for execution” for the ceaseless efforts of the entire SSI team for always striving to bring the best quality products and services to gaining the trust of customers and partners.
24 out of 25 top spots for honoring individual categories have awarded for SSI Research Center’s people that have excelled in many areas such as small/mid caps, agriculture, automobiles & components, banks, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials (non-banking), healthcare, industrials, IT Services, materials, real estate, telecommunication services, transportation & logistics and utilities. Furthermore, top 3 spots under categories of “Best salesperson” and “Best sales trader” also belonged to SSI.
Notably, the two new categories of this year’s poll are “Best retail broker” and “Best analyst/commentator” which are voted by individual clients has named SSI Securities Corporation as the winner that enhances SSI’s existing reputation in the retail brokerage segment.
Since 2017, Horizon Software has contributed to SSI project for (CW) covered warrants market making on the HSX (Hochiminh Stock Exchanges). Horizon has the strong relations with stock exchanges and other prestigious leading securities players in Vietnam because of its Market Making customizable solution offers a broad range of features to manage incoming client orders and access liquidity venues for best execution.
Steve Yam, CIO at SSI said: “SSI has established the strong relationship with Horizon for over 3 years. A major part of this success story is the dedicated collaboration with Horizon team. We trust in the strength of the Horizon platform particularly its business coverage, stability, flexibility, and scalability. The solution had a quick time to market, and was fully customizable solution which brings efficiency to organizations.”
Patraporn Boonwetch, Business Development ASEAN at Horizon Software commented: “We are extremely proud and happy that SSI has won the best broker of Vietnam this year. These awards recognize and celebrate our Asian partner for their success in delivering and scaling high-impact transformation on our Market Making platform. We will continue to innovate to adopt new practices and solutions to assist SSI and other clients in the region.”
Emmanuel Faure, Head of Sales APAC at Horizon added: “Despite the pandemic crisis, Vietnam is a fast-growing emerging market that successfully revived after the pandemic lockdown. Horizon is really grateful to provide our solutions to leading brokers in Vietnam. We see immense opportunities in this growing market through expanding our OMS down the road to this region as we have successful clients, deploying our OMS Solution in Thailand, Hong Kong and mainland China.”
Horizon is a multi-award-winning company, having claimed in 2020 the FOW Asia Multi Asset Trading System of the year, the FOW Sell Side Trading System of the Year award in 2019, the Trading Tech Europe Best OMS award, the Bobsguide Best Trading System award and the FS Tech Best Trading System award.
About Horizon Software
Horizon has been empowering capital market players for over two decades by building powerful algorithmic technology into its electronic trading platform and offering trading opportunities through direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide. Horizon enables clients to quickly create, test and implement automated trading strategies in real-time, in line with its ‘Trade Your Way’ philosophy. Its platform can be easily integrated with rich APIs and allows proprietary strategies to be built while keeping traders’ code confidential. More information: www.hsoftware.com
About SSI
Established in 1999 – is one of the pioneer companies at Vietnam stock market. By outstanding strengths on human resources, partner network and financial potential, SSI has now been the steadily leading company with the most attractive brand name and prestige. As the leading financial institution in Vietnam, SSI operates in a wide range of financial services including Retail Securities Services, Institutional Securities Services, Asset Management, Investment Banking, and Treasury. More information: https://www.ssi.com.vn/
