The Waters Weekly Wrap: March 5-11

This was a week that featured some of the biggest vendors enhancing their product offerings and analytics is (surprise!) seeing more investment.

In this week's Waters Wavelength podcast, Dan and Anthony try and get some feedback on the features they're working on by discussing their progress thus far. They open things up talking about Anthony's feature on the consolidation of risk platforms on the buy side, and then they switch to Dan's feature, which looks at the use of open source in financial services. The guys wrap things up chatting about the state of the UFC following the most recent pay-per-view.

Technology

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

Axioma Adds ConceptONE's Regulatory & Risk Reporting Units to its Risk Suite (BST)

Target2-Securities: Wave Two on Course for Launch as Precursor to Arrival of Euroclear (SST)

Thomson Reuters Enhances Eikon's Workflow, Analytics Capabilities (BST)

ITG Launches Analytics Tool (SST)

Fidessa Launches Integrated Tool for Discovering Crossing Opportunities (BST)

Lombard Risk Aims to Create Global Regulatory Reporting Harmony with AgileReporter Launch (SST)

Data

(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)

London's Fintech Start-Ups Mature (IRD)

AlphaSense Gets $33M to Grow Financial Search (IMD)

Bloomberg Launches Tool for Liquidity Risk Assessment (IRD)

StockViews Raises £250K to Grow Machine Learning, AI Capabilities (IMD)

Putting Blockchain On The Ledger (IRD)

Deutsche Börse Shuffles Info Execs (IMD)

Opinions

Don't Undervalue the Unusual (Max Bowie)

Institutional Investors Give Mixed Message on Cybersecurity (Anthony Malakian)

Golden Copy: Risk Data Nuances ... And Déjà Vu (Michael Shashoua)

Pipe Dream: Marijuana's Potential Move to Wall Street (Dan DeFrancesco)

Features

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

Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality (Waters)

Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution (Waters)