Waters Weekly Wrap: January 4-8
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.

Many in the fintech industry have made resolutions for the New Year, while others have already begun expansion. Read on to see what the industry has in store for 2016.
Resolutions
Making a Better Industry: New Year's Resolutions for the Capital Markets (SST)
Your 2016 Trifecta: Machine Learning, Blockchain & Social (BST)
Finra's Tech Aims in 2016: Cyber Security, Technology Management, Data Quality Governance, Outsourcing (SST)
NICE Actimize Eyes Big Data Analytics, Blockchain in 2016 (BST)
Trading Technologies to Add Trade Analytics, Backtesting in 2016 (BST)
NSX Aims to Entice Institutional Buy-Side Flow with Lower Fee Structure (BST)
2016: No More Risk Silos? (IRD)
Golden Copy: 2016's Biggest Data Challenges Emerge (IRD)
Expansions
HSBC Expands Global Custody Services into the US (SST)
Axius Expands Market EarlyBird Offering, Bows Hot Tweets (IMD)
MNI Vet Connor Joins Gimme Credit to Lead International Expansion (IMD)
Best of the Rest
Numerix Rolls Out Latest CrossAsset Release (BST)
Maybank Taps Fidessa's Equities Trading Platform (SST)
Solvency II Journey 'Only Just Beginning' (IRD)
Solactive Launches Benchmarks, Sets Roadmap for Smart Beta Indexes (IRD)
Trading Desks' Latest Concern: Data Support (IMD)
Zurich Insurance Completes Two-Year Data Migration Effort (IMD)
Data Consumers Fear Price Hikes After Bloomberg Buys BarCap Index Biz (IMD)
December Features
Keeping It Agile: Aspect Capital's Barney Dalton (Waters)
'Scratching and Clawing,' Syndicated Loans Tack Toward Progress: Part I (Waters)
Pragmatic Steps Highlight Syndicated Loans' Latest Tech Push, Part II (Waters)
All Roads Lead to Rome: Navigating IFRS 9 (Waters)
Market Surveillance: Rising to the Challenge (Waters)
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