Abstract-In this letter, we investigate the application of jointly processing the matched filtering and blind adaptive equalization functions in a receiver for a Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing (Nyquist-WDM) system employing a root-raised-cosine (RRC) pulse shaping filter. We show that blind equalization is able to also provide the matched filtering function, if the number of filter taps is increased. In addition, if implemented in the frequency domain, this form of blind equalization is more computationally efficient than when a separate RRC is used. It is also verified that this method is not sensitive to frequency offset. We demonstrate a 16-channel 19-GBd Nyquist-WDM system with QPSK and 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulation formats, and find the frequency domain blind equalizer can replace the RRC filter without adding a performance penalty.Index Terms-Coherent optical system, matched filtering, blind adaptive equalization, QPSK, 16-QAM.