This week, Joseph Lo, head of enterprise platforms at Broadridge, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They talk about Broadridge’s thinking behind BondGPT and OpsGPT, and some of the challenges firms face when experimenting with and using LLMs. https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7951726/broadridge-ceo-we-intend-to-be-a-leader-in-aiTo…

Joining Wei-Shen on the podcast this week is Val Wotton, managing director and general manager for Institutional Trade Processing at the DTCC. They talk about the time left to US T+1, the assessment of firms’ readiness, as well as the SEC’s rule on affirmation rates.5:30 – Val joins the podcast and gives an overview of his role at the DTCC 7:00 – T…

This week, Daniel Liebau, founding chairman of Lightbulb Capital, a research and advisory firm related to blockchain, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss decentralized finance technology, and also Dan’s DeFi 2034 paper, as well as some possible future scenarios for TradFi and DeFi. https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-scholars-podcas…

Ben Parker, CEO at regtech firm Eflow, joins Theo on the podcast. They talk about the regulatory landscape in Europe, including the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation Refit. 4:00 – Ben joins the podcast and gives an overview of his background and eFlow Global6:00 – They cover the main items on the …

This week, Expero’s managing director and financial services practice lead, Tim Baker, joins Reb on the podcast to discuss the ongoing Cusip case, the FCA’s wholesale market data study, and issues to do with copyrighting market data.https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7951301/the-cusip-lawsuit-a-love-story 5:00 – Tim joins the podcast and t…

Tony speaks with Joe Wald, managing director and head of electronic trading at BMO Capital Markets. But before that, Tony and Shen discuss their story about BlackRock’s mysterious “new” fixed-income tool, Aladdin Trader. Shen also talks about her recent trip to London. Skip ahead to 18:00 for the interview with Joe.https://www.waterstechnology.com/…

It’s Thanksgiving in the US, so we decided it’s time to revisit some of the dos and don’ts for PR people. Then, they discuss how Reb is settling into her new city. Here are Parts One (https://www.waterstechnology.com/management-strategy/2458851/waters-wavelength-podcast-episode-18-dos-and-donts-for-pr-people), Two (https://www.waterstechnology.com/…

This week, Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave, joins Tony on the podcast to talk about the importance of putting the right foundations in place and having the right mindset before starting a technology project. 7:00 – Bill joins the podcast.10:30 – They discuss the increasing pressure for quick wins.14:00 – How important is it to get th…

This week, Yogita Mehta, commercial product director for corporate actions at SIX Financial, joins the podcast to discuss the existing challenges firms face in the corporate action lifecycle. 2:30 – Yogita joins the podcast and gives an overview of her career.6:30 – They discuss the biggest challenges in the corporate action lifecycle. 13:00 – How …

This week, Adaptive Financial Consulting’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Barrett, joins Theo on the podcast to discuss the buy versus build debate. Then, they look at what characteristics firms are after in a trading system.https://www.greenwich.com/market-structure-technology/trading-technology-unveiled https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tech/795…

This week, David Sharratt, global head of data product commercialization at Standard Chartered, joins Wei-Shen to talk about monetizing data. They discuss what a data product is, the steps necessary to build it, and the common pitfalls firms face in the process.6:00 – David joins the podcast and talks through his 30-plus years in the capital market…

This week, David Hardoon, group chief data and AI officer at Union Bank of the Philippines, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to discuss language models and how they add that conversation layer to knowledge. They then unravel some of the terminologies around LLMs and the fundamentals of what firms are trying to achieve. This episode is David’s second t…

John Duigenan is the general manager for the Financial Services Industry for IBM. He joins Tony on the podcast to discuss the fields of generative AI and large language models. He has worked at IBM for more than 25 years in various roles.4:00 – John joins the podcast and talks about how he started in the financial services industry.6:00 – What’s th…

This week, Steve Rubinow, former chief innovation and technology officer at the New York Stock Exchange and lecturer at the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, joins Tony on the podcast. They talk about AI disruption and the state of the education system.3:30 – Tony reminisces about how he first met Steve.7:00 – Stev…

This week, Brad Levy, CEO of Symphony, joins Tony on the podcast. They discuss Levy’s vision for Symphony going forward and how his managing style has changed since 2020.7:30 – Brad Levy joins the podcast and talks about his vision for Symphony. 10:30 – Brad chats about moving towards a markets-focused platform, extending to buy-side firms. 14:00 –…

This week, Emanuele “Manny” Conti, Numerix’s new CEO, joins Tony on the podcast. They talk about his vision for Numerix’s future, the company’s acquisition strategy, and major trends that are changing the industry. 3:30 – Manny is a Midwesterner and a fan of Ohio State football, which Tony finds unfortunate.7:30 – Manny discusses how he became fami…

This week, Steve Moreton, global head of product management at CJC joins Tony on the podcast to explain why firms should start experimenting with virtual reality now, because VR’s capital markets adoption is not a question of if, but when. (Actually, it’s already here.)To view Moreton’s Metaverse presentation at FISD Netherlands from earlier this y…

This week, Reb joins Tony and Shen on the podcast. They talk about returning to in-person conferences after what feels like many years of having these done online. They delve into how these events can, and should, stimulate more interesting interactions—whether in the form of case studies or topic-specific fireside chats. Having the right moderator…

This week, Shen records the podcast at The Grapes, Limehouse, one of the oldest pubs in London. (Fun fact: Ian McKellen owns it.) She’s joined by Reb and Nyela, as well as Theo and Eliot, our newest reporters representing WatersTechnology in London. It’s chaotic, extremely noisy (cause we’re at a bar, duhh), and Shen is greatly outnumbered by Gen-Z…

This week, Tyler Derr, chief technology officer at Broadridge, joins Tony and Shen on the podcast. They discuss how Broadridge has grown through acquisitions, interoperability in the capital markets, blockchain use cases, and thoughts on emerging technologies.4:00 – Tyler joins the podcast and walks through his background in the transfer agency spa…

This week, Tony and Shen discuss the upcoming North American Financial Information Summit (Nafis) on May 16, 2023. They walk through the themes that will be discussed during the summit and why they are important.You can find more information about the summit here: https://www.financialinformationsummit.com/na , and if you want to register, you can …

This week, Jerome Kemp, president at Baton Systems, a company looking to transform post-trade processing using distributed ledger technology (DLT), joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They talk about the processes within the post-trade ecosystem that can benefit from DLT and some of the challenges that firms face in the implementation phase.3:00 – Jerom…

This week, Stephen Richardson, head of Apac and senior vice president of financial markets at Fireblocks, a digital asset security platform, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They chat about private key security and the technology traditional firms need to interact with digital assets.5:00 – Stephen joins the podcast and gives an overview of Fireblock…

This week, Matt Smith, CEO of compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to discuss the evolution of compliance solutions for electronic and voice communications and the regulatory landscape.1:30 – Matt joins the podcast and talks through some of the points in a report SteelEye released at the end of 2022.…

Andrea Gentilini, head of SEI Novus, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. Together, they talk about using the term ‘target operating model’, and how the buy side should use data to evaluate managers’ skillsets better. 3:00 – Andrea joins the podcast and gives an overview of his career and how he landed at SEI Novus.6:30 – He gives an analogy about how as…

It’s just Shen and Tony on this week’s podcast. To start, they chat about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in the US and Rebecca Natale’s undying love for Taylor Swift. Then, they get into the nitty-gritty of the recent announcement by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to scrap the replacement of its clearing and settlements system using di…

Joining Tony on the podcast this week is Spencer Lee, chief markets officer at TS Imagine, a trading, portfolio, and risk analytics solutions provider. They talk about the needs of buy-side fixed income traders, innovation in the space, and how traders deal with the various trading protocols. (2:30) – Spencer Lee joins Tony on the podcast and gives…

This week, Wei-Shen speaks with Josephine about her experience attending the World Financial Information Conference (WFic) in Prague in mid-October. She also recounts some of the engineering streams and panels that discussed challenges with delivering and consuming data on the cloud.Do check out her story covering the cooperation between JP Morgan …

This week, with no guest in tow, Tony and Shen go off the rails discussing how firms are migrating more workflows and processes to the cloud. They then touch on interoperability, blockchain, APIs, and open source before circling back to the cloud.על ידי WatersTechnology

This week, Andy Volz, chief operating officer at Clear Street, joins Tony on the podcast. They discuss the challenges existing technology infrastructures pose to the capital markets, the growing necessity of the cloud, and some trends in the market.9:00 – Andy joins Tony on the podcast and gives an overview of his career and what Clear Street does.…

James Crosby, founder and CEO of data management firm Fencore based out of Singapore, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast this week. They talk about the risks of vendor lock-in and how firms—both end-users and service providers—are working towards interoperability.4:30 – James joins the podcast and gives an overview of what Fencore does.8:30 – They discu…

Bill Dauge, head of alternative data at Nasdaq, joins Tony on the podcast this week. They talk about Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS and what it entails, and the trends that are driving this. 4:30 – Bill joins the podcast and gives an overview of his role at Nasdaq.7:30 – He goes into Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS and the exchange’s overall cloud str…

Joining Wei-Shen on the podcast is Enrico Bruni, managing director and head of Europe and Asia at Tradeweb. They discuss electronification in the repo markets, particularly in the dealer-to-client space, and Tradeweb’s “reverse onion” approach. As Bruni puts it, there’s nothing simple in repo land. 7:00 – Enrico joins the podcast and gives an overv…

This week, Manisha Kimmel, chief policy officer at MayStreet, joins Jo Wright on the podcast. They get into the weeds on the NMS plan, the fee amendment, and the comment letters submitted to the SEC.https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-24-89/s72489.htmhttps://twitter.com/MayStreetTech/status/14734056553063546912:30 – Manisha joins the podcast. She gives…

WARNING: Explicit content. This episode contains swear words, please listen with caution. You have been warned.Tony and Shen go on a long rant about Covid, kids on scooters, and spatial awareness. Enjoy!Merry Christmas!על ידי WatersTechnology

This week, Jennifer Peve, managing director, and head of strategy and business development at DTCC, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss how tokenization could help solve some of the challenges in US private markets and how the Digital Securities Management (DSM) platform that DTCC aims to launch in 2022 can potentially help. 3:00 – Jennifer…

This week, Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave, joins Tony on the podcast to talk about innovation discovery, talent acquisition, and technology battlefronts.5:00 – Bill joins the podcast.7:00 – They discuss the challenge of recruiting technical talent.12:00 – The technology innovation space is crowded.14:00 – Should tech leaders be more…

We’re stepping a little outside the box this week! Garry Cooper, CEO and co-founder at Rheaply, joins Tony on the podcast to discuss the circular economy. Rheaply is a software-as-a-service company that helps enterprises re-source assets and services. 5:30 – Garry joins the podcast and defines the circular economy.7: 30 – Then, he details problems …

This week, we have a return guest on the podcast. Likhit Wagle, general manager of global banking and financial markets at IBM, joins Tony to discuss mainframe modernization and its importance, particularly since it will be a while before banks put a substantial portion of their mission-critical workloads onto the public cloud. 5:00 –Wagle joins th…

This week, Geoff Horrell, head of innovation at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), joins the podcast to talk about the exchange’s innovation strategy after the Refinitiv acquisition, deep learning, and the ideation process.5:00 – Geoff joins the podcast and gives an overview of his remit at LSEG.7:00 – Then, he explains what has changed since …

This week, Lou Maiuri, COO at State Street, joins Tony on the podcast to discuss State Street’s acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman’s Investor Services business and the firm’s strategy beyond that. They also cover how firms can build interoperability within the organization and some of the challenges with the new landscape of working remotely.6:…

Happy Labor Day! This week on the podcast, Wei-Shen, and Tony discuss how Big Tech firms are eyeing more of the capital markets space and the roadblocks they may face. We talk about a recent column written by our very own Josephine Gallagher and some of the other Waters Wrap columns written by Tony.https://www.waterstechnology.com/buy-side-technolo…

Kris Hopkins, head of capital markets at SBI Digital Markets, the Singaporean subsidiary of SBI Digital Assets, joined the Waters Wavelength Podcast to talk about digital assets and why he thinks capital markets firms should get more involved. 2:00 Kris joins the podcast and talks about how he started his career as an intern at the London Internati…

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss climate change and how it will accelerate climate migration.Then, Shen gives a breakdown of her journey back to Hong Kong and how the early days of quarantine have beenעל ידי WatersTechnology

The pandemic has been a lot about “glow ups” and, equally, “glow downs” on a social and individual level. This week, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss how Covid-19 impacted our usual habits, from working out in the mornings to having a better sleep schedule.With many of us still experiencing a languishing blend of work/gym/home life, how do we get back on …

Shameek Kundu, former chief data officer at Standard Chartered, and now head of financial services and chief strategy officer at Truera, a startup dedicated to building trust in AI, joined the Waters Wavelength Podcast to talk about AI explainability and how regulators approach the use of AI. 5:00 Shameek joins the podcast and talks about the speed…

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony give listeners an overview of our three heavy-hitters of the week. https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/7842386/putting-the-green-in-green-data-rise-of-impact-investing-drives-esg-mahttps://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7841241/technical-difficulties-openfin-says-its-committed-to-fdc3-while-…

This week, Shen and Tony delve a little into Facebook and Apple’s privacy feud, in which Apple is, in an iOS update, prompting users to give apps permission to track their activity. Facebook could be hurt by this move as it directly threatens revenue from targeted ads. How does that argument fit into overall privacy concerns as people start to go i…

This week’s episode is all about Tony! First off, he’s now fully vaccinated! Wei-Shen calls him out for bragging that he doesn’t (usually) get reactions to vaccines. Tony also had his first in-person interview at the very-loved White Horse Tavern in Downtown Manhattan. We discuss his issues with anxiety and how he has dealt with it so far. Then, th…

This week, Keiren Harris, strategy-based market data consultant and the founder of DataCompliance, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to discuss how exchanges in Asia are approaching their data business. Keiren also writes about market data issues on MarketData.Guru. Also, next week from May 17 through to May 20, we have the WatersTechnology Innovation …