After winning the Best Sell Side OMS, Horizon Trading Solutions is awarded Best Sell Side EMS at TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
A-Team Group has named Horizon Trading Solutions winner of the Best Sell-Side EMS category at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026, recognizing the company’s leadership in modern execution infrastructure for investment banks, broker/dealers and other sell-side institutions.
This recognition follows Horizon’s previous win for Best Sell-Side OMS, reinforcing the strength of its fully integrated OEMS architecture purpose-built for the evolving demands of agency and principal trading desks.
Execution as strategic infrastructure
As market structure becomes more fragmented, regulatory scrutiny intensifies, and trading desks demand greater automation, Execution Management Systems have evolved from a tactical tool into a core strategic layer of sell-side infrastructure.
Today, performance, flexibility and integration capability are often decisive factors in large-scale platform migrations and legacy replacement initiatives.
Horizon’s EMS has been designed with this reality in mind.
Built on a modern, scalable architecture, it enables firms to:
- Deliver low latency market access
- Operate across multi-desk, multi-asset environments
- Embed real-time risk controls and regulatory safeguards
- Adapt execution logic without structural re-engineering
A modern SOR built for fragmented markets
A key differentiator of the solution is Horizon Compass, a next-generation Smart Order Router (SOR), launched last year and engineered on Aeron-based architecture to ensure low latency messaging, high throughput, and horizontal scalability.
Designed for today’s fragmented liquidity landscape, the SOR dynamically optimizes venue selection, intelligently manages order splitting and internalization logic, and supports best execution frameworks across jurisdictions.
This modern routing capability allows clients to improve execution quality while maintaining operational resilience under peak market conditions.
Algorithmic flexibility with Horizon Extend
Complementing the SOR is Horizon Extend, the firm’s advanced algorithmic execution framework.
Extend enables sell-side institutions to deploy both standard and fully customized execution strategies, integrate proprietary logic, and automate complex hedging and flow management workflows all within a unified environment.
This flexibility empowers trading desks to differentiate their execution offering, respond quickly to market structure changes, and scale strategies across desks without vendor lock-in constraints.
Recognising innovation in Trading Technology
"A huge congratulations to Horizon Trading Solutions for securing the Best Sell-Side EMS award at the 2026 A-Team Group TradingTech Insight Awards Europe. Now in their eighth year, these awards stand as a true benchmark of excellence and innovation within capital markets technology. They specifically recognize vendors who are driving exceptional change in trading infrastructure, core trading technology, and data solutions."
"We are extremely proud to receive the Best Sell-Side EMS award following our recognition for Best Sell-Side OMS. This distinction validates the strategic investments we have made to deliver a truly modern, high-performance execution platform for sell-side institutions. Our SOR, built on Aeron for latency and scalability, combined with the flexibility of Horizon Extend, enables our clients to optimize execution performance while maintaining full control over their trading strategies and risk framework. At Horizon, we design technology that adapts to each client’s competitive opportunity, not the other way around."
Enabling Long-Term Trading Performance
With increasing regulatory complexity, accelerating automation and rising expectations around execution quality, sell-side firms require technology partners capable of delivering both performance and partnership.
Horizon’s EMS forms a central pillar of its OEMS ecosystem enabling institutions to modernize infrastructure, scale intelligently, and sustain trading performance into the future.
What's next?
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Horizon Trading Solutions was named the Best Sell-Side EMS at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 by A-Team Group. The award recognizes Horizon's leadership in modern execution infrastructure purpose-built for investment banks, broker/dealers, and other sell-side institutions. Horizon Compass is a next-generation Smart Order Router (SOR) built on Aeron-based architecture, delivering low latency messaging, high throughput, and horizontal scalability. It dynamically optimizes venue selection, manages order splitting and internalization logic, and supports best execution frameworks across fragmented liquidity landscapes and jurisdictions. An OMS (Order Management System) handles order lifecycle management, while an EMS (Execution Management System) focuses on execution performance, market access, and algorithmic trading. Horizon Trading Solutions offers a fully integrated OEMS architecture that combines both capabilities to serve the evolving demands of agency and principal trading desks. Horizon Extend is Horizon's advanced algorithmic execution framework that enables sell-side institutions to deploy standard and fully customized execution strategies, integrate proprietary logic, and automate complex hedging and flow management workflows. It allows trading desks to differentiate their execution offering and scale strategies across desks without vendor lock-in.Frequently Asked Questions
