The Waters Weekly Wrap: October 5-9
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
It was a busy week for WatersTechnology. Not only did our October features go live, but we had the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in New York this week.
Speaking of events, there are a ton coming up in New York, Europe and Asia over the next few months. Also, there is still time to get your submissions in for this year's American Financial Technology Awards. You can do so here.
The October Features are Here...
JPMorgan Asset Management's Curt Engler: Building Bigger Better (Waters)
The Mila Mess: Finding Out What's Wrong with Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (Waters)
Beyond the Credit Crunch: The New Credit Risk Landscape (Waters)
Buy or Die? Capital Markets M&A Activity Ramps Up (Waters)
The Finite Sunshine of the Cyber Mind (Waters)
Buy-Side Technology North American Summit
Regulators Seeking Deeper Markets Transparency as Non-Banks Rise (BST)
The Benefits of Best of Breed (BST)
Death of the Data Warehouse (BST)
Harnessing Generation Y's Talent in Fintech (BST)
BlackRock's Godrich: OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Centers Increasingly on the Rise (BST)
Incident-Response Plans, Education Key to Protecting Against Hacks, say Panelists (BST)
The Best of the Rest
ESMA's ‘Final Countdown' to MiFID 2 Targets Time Synch, Data Disaggregation (IMD)
Technologists as Traders: Sitting in the Hot Seat (SST)
MDX Bows Data Distribution Platform (IMD)
Inexact Science: When, If Ever, Should Intuition Trump AI? (BST)
Digesting MiFIR's Technical Standards (IRD)
Celoxica Adds Eurex Feed Handers to Ticker Plant (IMD)
Diversification Key to Successful Clearing Mandate (SST)
OTAS Plugs Trading Analytics into Portware EMS (IMD)
Big Hitters Pull Together to Establish SPReD Reference Data Utility (SST)
Interview: Chambadal Explains SmartStream's Involvement in SPReD Utility (Waters)
Interactive Brokers Taps Airex to Grow Trader Data Portal (IMD)
Compliance Science Selects AIM Software for EDM (IRD)
Cyber Security: To Insure or Not to Insure (SST)
Offloading Compliance Responsibilities to a Vendor Still a Dream (SST)
New Bernstein Pairs Tool Highlights Bloomberg App Portal's Speedy Maturation (BST)
The September Features: A Labor of Love
McNamara, Zerbs Work Towards Common Tech Goals in Toronto (Waters)
The Great Unbundling Bungle: Fretting Over Mifid II (Waters)
Messaging Wars: Bloomberg, Symphony and ... Senator Warren? (Waters)
Corporates Get Electronic, Part II: The Buy Side (Waters)
Euro Exchanges Draw a Roadmap for 2016 (Waters)
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