The Waters Weekly Wrap: March 19-25
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands.
This week it was announced that IHS is merging with Markit, creating a $13 billion data and analytics behemoth. Sell-Side Technology and Buy-Side Technology got reactions from end users to figure out what the deal could mean for the capital markets. Inside Market Data looked at the data world implications of the purchase.
And in this week's Waters Wavelength Podcast, Dan and Anthony give their thoughts on the tie-up, in addition to some news coming out of the FIA Boca conference.
And here's the best of the rest from WatersTechnology from this past week:
Technology
(Best of Buy-Side Technology & Sell-Side Technology)
Trading Technologies to Add Options Trading, Build Out Charting Capabilities (BST/SST)
Fidessa Bolsters Futures Algo, TCA Suite (BST)
Blockchain Vendor Elliptic Raises $5 Million Series A (SST)
An Open-Source Audit: Where Financial Firms Are Turning to Open Source (BST/SST)
Horizon's Trading Platform Upgrade Introduces Three Major Changes (SST)
Data
(Best of Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data)
ICE's IDC-S&P Evaluated Pricing Tie-Up Sparks Competition Concerns (IMD)
Swaps Reporting Deadline Pushed Back (IRD)
Statpro Builds Cloud-Based Data Management, Performance Engine (IMD)
State Street Begins Data-Mapping Activity (IRD)
LSE ‘Group Ticker' Delivers Lower, Predictable Latency; Lays Foundation for Future Data Products (IMD)
MiFIR special report (IRD)
Opinions
To Ensure Data Quality, Keep Long Leases on Short Leashes (Max Bowie)
Barclays Point Fixed-Income Users Worry About Bloomberg Port Conversion (Anthony Malakian)
Golden Copy: Long Road to Disruption (Michael Shashoua)
R.I.P. Vendors: Can Open Source Fundamentally Change the Way Third Parties Operate? (Dan DeFrancesco)
Features
The Educator: Georgette Kiser, The Carlyle Group (Waters)
Machine Learning: Hype vs. Reality (Waters)
Fixed Income: Electronic Evolution (Waters)
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