The Waters Weekly Wrap: April 16-22
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.

And your winners are...
Yesterday we announced the winners of this year's Sell-Side Technology Awards. Here are all the winners. Keep an eye out in the coming weeks as to why these firms won their respective categories..
Also, in this week's Waters Wavelength Podcast, Dan and Anthony discuss the North American Trading Architecture Summit and the Sell-Side Technology Awards. They also talk about the passing of music icon Prince.
And here's the best of the rest from WatersTechnology from this past week:
Technology
(Best of Buy-Side Technology & Sell-Side Technology)
CFTC Policy Advisor: New US President Means Big Changes for Dodd-Frank (SST/BST)
MayStreet Adds DaaS for US Equities, Futures & Options (BST)
NATAS Panel: Identify Business Strategy Before Innovating (SST)
Northern Trust, AltX Ink Deal for Fund Intelligence (BST)
Calypso President: Acquisition Means Greater Focus on Technology (SST)
Lazard's CISO: Authorities Need to Improve Hacker Arrests, Prosecutions (BST)
Data
(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)
Symphony Preps Apps, Life Beyond Chat (IMD)
Corporate Actions: Only the Strong Survive (IRD)
Thomson Reuters Releases Power Markets App on Eikon (IMD)
ICBC Standard Bank Picks Fenergo for Client Lifecycle Management (IRD)
Icap Taps OpenFin for Desktop Version of Fusion Data, Trading Portal (IMD)
Thornburg Selects Markit EDM (IRD)
Opinions
Don't Forget the Fundamentals (Max Bowie)
The Symphony Builds (Anthony Malakian)
Finding the Best During a Busy Week (Dan DeFrancesco)
Golden Copy: The Blockchain is Just a Database (Joanna Wright)
Features
Aberdeen's Iain Plunkett: Transformation Through Technology (Waters)
Open to Open Source (Waters)
Adequately Agile: Firms Eye Agile Method (Waters)
Reg AT: A Source (Code) of Contention (Waters)
Grappling with Vendor Risk Rules (Waters)
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