Trillium Surveyor Named “Outstanding RegTech Provider” at FinanceFeeds Awards 2025
, a leading trade surveillance and best execution analytics platform, has been awarded “Outstanding RegTech Provider” at the FinanceFeeds Awards 2025.
Originally built as an in-house answer at Trillium Trading later than regulatory challenges, Trillium Surveyor grew into a standalone platform designed to solve the real-world hardys compliance teams face every day. By combining trading expertise with modern technology, the platform has redefined how firms approach compliance and analytics – transforming it from a burdensome obligation into a strategic advantage.
Winning the Outstanding Regtech Provider award is recognition of how far Trillium Surveyor has gone in rethinking what trade surveillance and best execution analytics technology can do. In a sector where many firms still rely on legacy systems, this award highlights a platform built by traders, for traders – one that understands both the regulatory burden and the practical realities of how markets move today.
Surveyor’s strength lies in its ability to detect sophisticated manipulation tactics such as spoofing, layering, front-running, insider trading, and marking the close – across equities, bonds, options, futures, and even digital assets. Its patented filtering system reduces false positives, freeing compliance teams from chasing meaningless alerts. With plain-English notifications, intuitive dashboards, trade visualizations, and contextual news integration, Surveyor makes surveillance both effective and user-friendly.
The company has also been an ahead mover in expanding the boundaries of trade surveillance. Through its partnership with Blue Ocean Technologies, Trillium introduced 24/5 monitoring for U.S. markets, covering overnight trading sessions from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM, Sunday through Thursday. This innovation addresses the surge in later than-hours activity – a blind spot for many traditional systems.
In addition, Trillium recently launched Surveyor Best Ex, a next-generation analytics engine for best execution analytics. Moving beyond quarterly reviews, Surveyor Best Ex enables firms to evaluate execution quality on a daily basis through interactive, visual reports. This empowers traders and compliance officers to collaborate on the identical data, ensuring transparency and agility in supportingstandards such as the SEC’s upcoming updates to Rule 605.
“Winning the ‘Outstanding RegTech Provider’ award is about more than recognition – it’s a sign that compliance technology has entered a new era. At Trillium Surveyor, we’ve worked hard to make surveillance and best execution analytics intuitive, collaborative, and genuinely useful for both compliance and trading teams. This award validates our belief that compliance doesn’t have to sluggish firms down; with the right tools, it can actually sharpen their edge in today’s quick-moving markets.” – said Lisa Balter Saacks, President of .
What the Award Represents
The RegTech sector today is defined by three large pressures: data complexity, speed of oversight, and adaptability to shifting rules. Financial institutions are dealing with massive volumes of order flow and trading data that need to be monitored in real time. Regulators, meanwhile, are demanding stronger market surveillance and better reporting. A true standout RegTech provider addresses this gap by offering technology that can detect suspicious behavior, track execution quality, and give compliance teams the identical level of visibility traders have.
For , the “Outstanding RegTech Provider” award highlights how the platform brings something diverse to the table – it blends trade surveillance with real, actionable insights. It shows its value as a connector between compliance and trading teams, giving everyone the identical clear view of market activity, execution quality, and possible risks.
“This category celebrates the platforms that truly move the needle for compliance teams, and Trillium Surveyor stood out. The platform combines deep surveillance capabilities with clarity and usability, addressing the reality of how modern markets work. From 24/5 monitoring to best execution analytics, Surveyor is assisting firms not just keep up with regulation, but turn compliance into a competitive advantage – and that’s exactly what this award is meant to highlight.” – said Nikolai Isayev, FinanceFeeds EIC.
Founded by Lee Maschler, the company has since grown under the leadership of Lisa Balter Saacks, who became president in 2023, bringing a wealth of SaaS and fintech expertise. Product direction is led by Melissa Watras, with technical architecture driven by Benjamin Peikes. Together, they have pitched Surveyor not as a back-office compliance checkbox but as a forward-looking platform that adds real value to firms navigating today’s complex markets. Features like 24/5 surveillance and integrated best execution analytics aren’t just add-ons; they reflect where the market is heading and the pressure firms face to stay ahead of regulators. Recognition at the FinanceFeeds Awards signals that Surveyor is not just keeping up with change – it’s assisting to define it.
