The Waters Weekly Wrap: May 21-27
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
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On this week's Waters Wavelength podcast, topics include KYC on the buy side, BNP Paribas growth plans for its custodian business, Game of Thrones spoilers, and the rumored Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight.
Technology
(Best of Buy-Side Technology & Sell-Side Technology)
Bloomberg Launches Entity Exchange to Help Buy Side Handle KYC, Onboarding Demands (BST)
BNP Paribas Securities Services' Gallagher Talks Growth Goals, New Regulatory Positioning (SST)
HA&W Wealth Management Turns to BasisCode for Compliance (BST)
Nasdaq Financial Framework Offers Harmonized Products Portfolio (SST)
BNY Mellon Launches ‘Big Data' Solution for Investor Allocations, Behavioral Insights (BST)
Clocking the CAT (SST)
Data
(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)
Nasdaq Readies First ‘Lab-Grown' Analytics (IMD)
Finding Opportunities in Standards (IRD)
Hall of Fame: CBOE's Tom Knorring, ‘The Mathematician' (IMD)
GLEIF CEO Addresses Concern About Muni Bond Registration (IRD)
FXecosystem Taps Metamako Switch for Network Monitoring, MiFID 2 Compliance (IMD)
LEI System Ready to Take the Next Step (IRD)
Opinions
Poignancy and People Power (Victor Anderson)
From High Performance to High Octane (Max Bowie)
The Need for Speed (Anthony Malakian)
Show Me the Data! (Dan DeFrancesco)
Before and After NAFIS (Michael Shashoua)
Features
Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld: Slow and Steady (Waters)
Agile: More Mentality Than Methodology (Waters)
Dancing in the Dark: Fraud Shapes Dark Pools (Waters)
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2016: All the Winners and Why they Won (Waters)
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