The Waters Weekly Wrap: May 25-29
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.

After a week of serious conference action in London and New York, things settled down at Waters this week; however the industry continued to comment — and act — enthusiastically as it assessed technology's role in markets where it has traditionally lagged behind.
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Forward at Any Cost
CLOs' Demand Surges, Leading Custodians, Tech Providers to Respond (BST)
C-Levels Wrap Up NAFIS, Discuss Strategies to Push Tech Refresh (SST)
S3 Adds Canadian Best Ex Analytics, Eyes Further Geographies (SST)
Best of the Rest
Swift's KYC Registry Made Available for Fund Distributors, Custodians (BST)
NanoSpeed Slashes FPGA Trading, Data Exchange Gateway (IMD)
Russian CSD Introduces Customizable Corporate Actions (IRD)
More From BST Europe, NAFIS
Agility Key to Reducing Risk, says Aspect Capital CTO (BST)
No Risk Management Without Technology, Says Blackrock's Fishwick (BST)
ESMA Board Member: Capital Market Union Shouldn't 'Reinvent the Wheel' (BST)
Business Strategy Must Embrace Tech to Compete, Says C-Level Panel (BST)
Thomson Reuters Leads IMD/IRD Awards Tally as Race Tightens Between Bloomberg, Interactive Data (IMD)
LEI Implementations Lead to Big Benefits for All (SST)
The Waters Profile: Pierre Dulon, Credit Agricole
An Ever-Closer Union: Credit Agricole CIB's Dulon Bets on Unity (Waters)
From the May Mag
Bitcoin Comes of Age as New Technology Questions Follow (Waters)
T2S: The Final Countdown (Waters)
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More on Emerging Technologies
TT partners Thoma Bravo, Fitch launches GenAI solution, AI infrastructure woes, and more
The Waters Cooler: EquiLend acquires Trading Apps, Ultumus and BMLL partner for ETF data and analytics, and more in this week’s roundup.
The industry is not ready for what’s around the corner
Waters Wrap: As cloud usage and AI capabilities continue to evolve (and costs go up), Anthony believes the fintech industry may face a similar predicament to the one facing journalism today.
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.