Waters Weekly Wrap: January 19-23, 2015
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands

Now that 2015 is really rolling, we saw a number of significant annoucements and trends covered this week, addressing matters ranging from ontology to mobile to dark liquidity.
Also, we've launched another cycle of our great awards programs for the year, opening up the Sell-Side Technology awards portal to entries. Enjoy!
Major Moves
Nine buy-side giants aim to squash HFT with new Luminex dark pool (BST)
EDM Council jumps into business ontology work. (IRD)
BATS, Direct Edge one step closer with tech migration. (SST)
European settlement unification's coming together. (SST)
Tick42 outlines new 'Solutions' strategy. (IMD)
Pershing execs explain development, design for NetX Mobile. (BST)
From the Mag
The Waters Profile: AQR CTO Neal Pawar taps into his experience in theater to relate to his employees. (Waters)
Fintech takes the UK by storm. (Waters)
FIX-ing liquidity in fixed income. (Waters)
Gliding Down: Pensions seek to match tech to LDI strategies. (Waters)
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Overbond’s demise hints at cloud-cost complexities
The fixed-income analytics platform provider shuttered after failing to find new funding or a merger partner as costs for its serverless cloud infrastructure “ballooned.”
Standard Chartered’s AI Factory applies the ‘repeatability’ principle
The AI Factory will be a library of transversal services of AI capabilities for the bank to use, like a tree that continually bears fruit.
Quants use AI to shush noisy order-book data
Signals from clusters of seemingly informed trading perform better, researchers say.
Cboe to exit Japan equities, S&P/Barclays partner, LSEG mulls 24-hour trading, and more
The Waters Cooler: Regnology acquires Wolters Kluwer’s FRR unit, and storms ahead for the $500 billion Stargate project.
SS&C sets early roadmap after Calastone buy
CEO Bill Stone also said on SS&C’s earnings call that Blue Prism, AI are helping to push growth.
ViaNexus aims to bring data entitlement control to MCP, agentic AI
The startup believes that Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol marks a major step forward for agentic AI, but the market data industry has its own complexities that haven’t been addressed—yet.