The Waters Weekly Wrap: Feb 27 - Mar 4

It's the beginning of the month and that means that the latest issue of Waters magazine is out. You can find links to the features and opinions below.

This week during the Waters Wavelength podcast Dan DeFrancesco and Anthony Malakian discuss how machine learning techniques are creeping into the capital markets. They also talk about how best to climb the corporate ladder based off of C-level profiles they have written in the past. And they wrap things up by looking at the Super Tuesday primary results from the US.
 

Features

The Educator: Georgette Kiser, The Carlyle Group (Waters)

Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality (Waters)

Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution (Waters)

Startups Accelerate: A Look at How the Innovation Space is Changing (Waters)

Dawn of the Wearables (Waters)

Technology

(Best of Buy-Side Technology & Sell-Side Technology)

BISAM Acquires FinAnalytica, Bringing Together Performance, Risk Analytics (BST)

Tradeweb Nabs CodeStreet, Looks to Accelerate Credit Strategy (SST)

Numerix Unveils Enterprise Risk Platform Geared Toward XVA Pricing, FRTB Requirements (BST/SST)

Collaboration the Key to Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (SST)

Ipreo, Symbiont Combine Forces to Tackle Syndicated Loans Market (BST/SST)

R3 Tests 5 Cloud-Based Blockchain Technologies with 40 Banks (SST)

Data

(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)

Getting Smarter About Serving Risk Management Needs (IRD)

Velocimetrics Taps Machine Learning for Automated Data Quality Analytics (IMD) 

JPX Readies New Co-Lo, Derivatives Platform (IMD)

BME Focuses on Post-Trade Value Chain (IRD)

How FIGI Helps Track Swaps Lifecycles (IRD)

Estimize Unveils Forcerank Crowd-Sourced Predictive Stock Ranking Tool (IMD)

Opinions

Agile: The CIOs' Pressure Valve (Victor Anderson)

Data Romance Isn't Dead; It's Just in an Open Relationship (Max Bowie)

Questions Abound About Machine Learning (Anthony Malakian)

Dogs Ate the Regulators' Homework (Michael Shashoua)

Know Before You Build (Dan DeFrancesco)