The Waters Weekly Wrap: May 14-20
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.

Just a reminder, but this year's Waters Rankings are officially open for voting. Please note: Only end users are permitted to vote; all vendors and PR agencies will be disqualified. Voting ends on Friday, June 3.
On this week's Waters Wavelength podcast, Dan and Anthony decide to switch things up by talking about some of their biggest pet peeves when it comes to dealing with folks in public relations.
Also, this week in London the Buy-Side Technology European Summit was held on Tuesday, and the North American Financial Information Summit was held in New York on Wednesday. You can find some featured articles from those events below.
Technology
(Best of Buy-Side Technology & Sell-Side Technology)
Blockchain as an Opportunity (BST)
WSBA's Quaranta: Education is Key to Unlocking Blockchain Adoption (SST)
Collaboration Key to Establishing Trust (BST)
Euronext's Price of Independence (SST)
Pimco Adds kyc.com to Onboarding Suite as Markit Preps New Reg Services (BST)
Icap Renamed NEX Group (SST)
Data
(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)
IMD/IRD Awards Winners (IRD)
Capital One CDO Charts Journey into Big Data (IMD)
Blockchain Willl Be Biggest Operations Disruptor, NAFIS Attendees Say (IRD)
CDOs Still Struggle for Board Understanding (IMD)
NAFIS Live: Big Data Analytics (IRD)
Latency Key But No Longer Killer (IMD)
Opinions
Balancing and Evolving with Your Greatest Asset (Max Bowie)
The Buy Side Slowly Moves Toward Utilities, Managed Services (Anthony Malakian)
Keeping Up With DeFrancesco (Dan DeFrancesco)
Golden Copy: What We Heard At 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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More on Emerging Technologies
Waters Wavelength Ep. 315: Company names and the loans market
This week, Reb, Nyela, and Shen talk about unimaginative company names and then address some challenges in the loans market.
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG
Researchers at Bloomberg have found that retrieval-augmented generation is not as safe as once thought. As a result, they put forward a new taxonomy to help firms mitigate AI risk.
M&A activity, syndicated loans, a new tariff tool, and more
The Waters Cooler: LSEG and LeveL Markets partner for new order type, QuantHouse gets sold to Baha Tech, and Fitch Ratings has a new interactive tool in this week’s news roundup.
Nasdaq, AWS offer cloud exchange in a box for regional venues
The companies will leverage the experience gained from their relationship to provide an expanded range of services, including cloud and AI capabilities, to other market operators.
OCC’s security chief on generative AI with guardrails
Clearinghouse looks to scale technology across risk and data operations—but safety is still the watchword.
Bank of America reduces, reuses, and recycles tech for markets division
Voice of the CTO: When it comes to the old build, buy, or borrow debate, Ashok Krishnan and his team are increasingly leaning into repurposing tech that is tried and true.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges
This week, Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins the podcast to talk about how firms in Asia-Pacific approach AI and data.