The Waters Weekly Wrap: December 1-5, 2014
Introducing a new best-of roundup

Deals, Deals, and More (Unsettled) Deals!
CME Group, BGC continue their tussle over GFI (SST)
IPC flocks to Centerbridge, firms up former Silver Lake partner as permanent CEO (SST)
DST Global Solutions proves the latest among SS&C's annual big buys (BST)
Waters Profile: The Swiss-Icelandic-French Connection
Symphony Makes Splash by Switching Gears
Consortium of major firms snaps up Markit's Collaboration Services in a surprise (BST)
Move upends a messaging space that was already in flux, but disrupting Bloomberg remains the target (IMD)
EMIR Continues Down Rocky Road
Updating ESMA's latest work on European Market Infrastructure Regulation (IRD)
DTCC, triOptima take a stab at sorting the trade repository challenge (SST)
Multiplication by Division
Making risk aggregation work by lining up data stewardship units, responsibilities first (IRD)
Credit Agricole, FIS partner on mutualizing derivatives post-trade processing (SST)
Features Focus: Emerging Markets
The changing calculus for major exchange technology providers and their frontier-market clients (Waters)
Completing the hard technology work behind linking the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong (Waters)
Can tech alliances facilitate growth, consistency among Africa's disparate exchange landscape? (Waters)
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