ASIA PACIFIC - Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced it has been recognised with three awards at WealthBriefing Asia’s Awards 2015. The annual publishing house honours innovation and excellence across wealth management professional firms, individuals and technology providers in Hong Kong and Singapore with an esteemed judging panel. Thomson Reuters was awarded:

• Best Data Provider of the Year 2015 in Hong Kong - 2^nd year running
• Best Data Provider of the Year 2015 in Singapore - 2^nd year running
• Best Risk Management Technology of the Year 2015 in Hong Kong

“As wealth professionals look for smarter and more sophisticated tools to make investment decisions and efficiently manage tougher compliance requirements, it’s an exciting time to be delivering best-in-class solutions to support industry development” said Sanjeev Chatrath, managing director for Asia, Financial & Risk, at Thomson Reuters. “We are delighted to have been recognised for delivering customers with innovative and powerful tools for the wealth industry, and for our fast growing risk management solution.”

“The WealthBriefingAsia awards recognise the very best operators in the private client industry, with ‘independence,’ ‘integrity’ and ‘genuine insight’ the watchwords for the judging process,” said Stephen Harris, publisher of WealthBriefingAsia. “Thomson Reuters continues to excel in the sheer scope – and usability – of data it can deliver, as well as the innovative way it meets the needs of the wealth management sector.”

For a second year in a row, judges awarded Best Data Provider to Thomson Reuters for delivering the most comprehensive and innovative financial data solutions recognising the next generation of its financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon - Version 4,Thomson Reuters MarketPysch Indices (TRMI), Elektron Managed Services and  Lipper feeds. Covering multiple asset classes, these solutions also deliver improved flexibility and usability to help clients receive and deliver information across multiple venues and applications, connecting the wealth management community.

Best Risk Management Technology was awarded to Thomson Reuters World-Check solution. It was recognised for giving wealth management firms the ability to stay ahead of changing regulatory requirements in ‘just a few clicks’. Notable was the platform’s ability to simplify and accelerate the tracking of regulatory updates, compliance management, customer on-boarding, due diligence and e-learning. It also recognized the multi-language capabilities as a critical requirement given the growing demands of cross-border financial services.

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