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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