Rain, Snow and Architecture
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It's been a bit of a fractured week here in London, thanks to the Easter four-day weekend. Not so for my colleagues in New York, however, who have been expertly covering the recent North American Trading Architecture Summit (Natas). We've also had the announcement of the Sell-Side Technology Awards winners, in a gala dinner that took place directly after SST's primary North American event, and one which I'm reliably informed led many to make their way home through snow and rain in Times Square at some ungodly hour of the morning.
Nevertheless, many thanks to all who entered, and sincere congratulations to all of the winners. I was a judge for this year's awards, even though I unfortunately couldn't be at the event itself, and they were some of the hardest I've ever been presented with. Every category was a contest, best expressed perhaps by GoldenSource unseating Markit EDM in the data management category for the first time in either the BST or SST Awards, and by Thomson Reuters claiming their first win in a few years.
Back to Natas, though. My US-based colleagues have done a sterling job in writing up the key points from the day, which you can access through this website tag. Thanks to everyone who made it a success ─ our events team works hard to bring the very best speakers in, but the conferences wouldn't happen at all if you didn't turn up for them, so we really appreciate your continued support.
Settling Down
Outside of Waters events, there have been a couple of big stories this week. The first is the enhanced oversight of high-frequency trading in Europe, covered by our European reporter, Marina Daras. The next is the adoption of central securities depositories regulation (CSD Reg) by the European Parliament. Both will have significant effects on market structure for years to come, particularly in terms of how the various macro-regulatory efforts in the EU continue to interplay with one another, not to mention how well they sit along regulatory reforms by other regulators outside of the Eurozone and EU borders.
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My thanks to my colleague Tim Murray for taking charge of this column last week in my absence.
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