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
Agentic AI takes center stage, bank tech projects, new funding rounds and more
The Waters Cooler: SEC hack investigation, FCA–Nvidia partnership, LTX BondGPT upgrade, and CDO problems are also in this week’s news round-up.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells
This week, Par Cassells joins Nyela to discuss shorter settlement cycles and the role of vendors in the transition.
Perceive, reason, act: Agentic AI, graph tech used to assess risk
Industry executive Jay Krish is experimenting with large language models to help PMs monitor for risk.
BNY standardizes internal controls around data, AI
The bank has rolled out an internal enterprise AI platform, invested in specialized infrastructure, and strengthened data quality over the last year.
NY Fed Home Loans Bank spurns multi-cloud model
The cost and complexity of diversifying away from the big three providers outweighs concentration risks.
Citi close to launching GenAI investment tools
The new tech will be used to improve investment recommendations and increase cross-selling opportunities.
Overnight trading, a new dealer-to-client credit biz, so much AI, and more
The Waters Cooler: TP Icap acquires Neptune, Sterling launches overnight trading, and Thoma Bravo gets billions from investors in this week’s news round-up.
First Citizens used AI to retain SVB customers
The firm’s retention efforts involved using AI to monitor customer behavior and sentiment—including profanities.