Waters Wavelength

This week there were several big announcements surrounding bitcoin and digital currencies. Anthony and James delve into those stories and look at James’ all-encompassing feature—which was published on Thursday—that looks at some of the issues hindering the cryptocurrency space. James next gives a breakdown of the FCA’s announcement that it will phase-out the Libor benchmark and what it will mean f...

This week, Anthony and James look at two major announcements coming out of IBM and then turn their attention, once again, to the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments (Mifid II) and how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is concerned about industry preparedness as January draws near. They end things by giving their thoughts—sans sophistication—on the first episode of Game of Thrones’s...

This week, Anthony and James look at Anthony’s feature on the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks. They then discuss the CFTC’s announcement this week that it is going to conduct a review of its swaps data reporting rules. Finally, they wrap things up by discussing Donald Trump Jr., and his disclosure of emails linking him to a Russian lawyer. While James is basically a socialist, Anthony is a...

This week James and Anthony look at recent regulatory developments in Europe as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has releases its long-awaited study of the asset management industry and the UK, and final policy notes relating to Mifid II. They next turn their attention to this month’s Waters magazine cover story—a profile of Cheyne Capital’s Josh Jacobson—and examine how some vendors are ente...

This week, Michael Radziemski joins Anthony and James on the podcast to discuss tech evolutions taking place in financial markets. Radziemski has 30 years of experience in the industry, with stints at Bankers Trust, Citigroup and Lord Abbett, where he was chief information officer from 2003 to 2016. 1:30 Radziemski looks at the problem of convenience overshadowing need in technology. 4:00 How has...

On the podcast, Viral Shah, co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a co-creator of the Julia programming language, talks with Anthony about the launch of Julia 0.6, what’s expected of Julia 1.0, and how finance and insurance firms are using the language for research and risk modeling. Then, Anthony and James take a look at how machine learning and alternative data are starting to be paired, cre...

This week, Anthony and James delve into regtech and also take a look at how employee privacy may be diminishing due to new cognitive technologies being used in surveillance. They next turn their attention to clearinghouses in London and how new EU rules could force them to relocate to the Eurozone. Finally, they talk about how Anthony was incredibly wrong in saying that a Floyd Mayweather-Conor Mc...

On this edition of the podcast, new co-host, James Rundle, joins Anthony Malakian to discuss Thursday’s UK general election and the effect it could have on the fintech sector in London and Europe. After that, Anthony chats with Sell-Side Technology deputy editor John Brazier to discuss the integration of Barclays’ Point IP into Bloomberg’s Port portfolio analytics platform. The UK General Election...

This week on the podcast, Anthony is joined by Waters reporter Emilia David to discuss her feature that looked at technology adoption in the municipal bond market. And since the summer has finally arrived, Anthony and Emilia look at the summer movies they’re most interested in seeing. Here are the timestamps, in case you want to jump around: (0:00-2:05) The intro offers a reminder to vote in this...

Earlier this week, Waters’ sibling publication, Inside Data Management, hosted its annual North American Financial Information Summit (NAFIS). During the event, Stephen Morse, former head of global financial data partnerships at Twitter, spoke to the audience about how traders are mining data created through social media—and, specifically, through Twitter—to find a trading edge. After Anthony give...

Earlier this week it was announced that Liquidnet had acquired OTAS Technologies, a vendor that had made its name in the analytics and artificial intelligence fields. To discuss what the deal means for users, as well as some of the broader trends in the market, Adam Sussman, head of market structure for Liquidnet, joins Anthony on the podcast. (0:00-2:40) Some information about the Waters Rankings...

This week on the podcast, Anthony is once again joined by Dan (last time…at least for a while!) to welcome this week’s guest: Neal Pawar, AQR’s chief technology officer. AQR, which manages $187.6 billion as of March 31, 2017, is in the midst of a major buildout, upgrading different parts of it infrastructure, front to back, as the firm looks to continue its growth. To answer these enhancements, th...

This week, Marc Andrews—vice president of Watson Financial Services Solutions for IBM—sits down with Anthony and Dan to discuss how the company is using the famed Watson platform in the financial services space. 1:00 How to enter your company for this year’s Waters Rankings. 3:00 Marc talks about why IBM focused on regulatory compliance, first, for the financial sector. 4:45 The difference between...

This podcast is dedicated to co-host Dan DeFrancesco, who, starting Monday, will move over to Waters’ sibling publication, Risk, where he’ll write about the commodities sector. To start, Dan discusses his new remit and Anthony talks about how the podcast will progress going forward (0:40). Dan then touches on his three favorite stories, which we’ve put in front of the paywall for all to read, incl...

The guys open things up talking about how the Waters Rankings are now open for entry and describe the (very easy) process for getting listed (1:00). Next, they delve into how Hollywood portrays technologists and traders on TV and in film, whether these characters are accurate to real life, and what that means for talent acquisition (3:00). Finally, they talk about the films that they’re most excit...

The guys open things up discussing Anthony’s feature that looked at the public cloud sector and how the likes of AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud and Azure are trying to differentiate themselves in the capital markets space (1:00). They then discuss what the continued adoption of artificial intelligence means for jobs (18:28). The guys wrap things up talking about the United Airlines fiasco (26:15) and New Yor...

Dan and Anthony chat about some of the hottest topics at this year’s North American Trading Architecture Summit. They open things up discussing the keynote address by Deutsche Bank’s Jim Adams, which examined financial firms’ use of open source and the need for collaboration (1:18). Dan and Anthony then talk about the C-level panel and its focus on cybersecurity (11:40). They also share some conve...

The guys open things up talking about four acquisitions that occurred over the past month. Dan and Anthony first talk about FactSet-BISAM Technologies (2:50), Numerix-TFG Financial Systems (7:21), Broadridge-Message Automation (10:05) and Trumid-Electronifie (13:09). The conversation then turns to Burton-Taylor’s research on industry data spend in 2016 (19:09). They wrap things up talking about th...

Dan and Anthony open things up discussing the former’s feature on shadow IT, looking at the pros and cons that come with developing technology project outside of the IT department’s jurisdiction (1:00). They then chat about Anthony’s trip to Florida for FIA Boca, including CFTC acting-chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo’s impassioned speech (15:00). Anthony wraps things up talking about his distaste...

Dan is joined by Emilia David, WatersTechnology US staff writer, to discuss a recent DTCC conference she attended. They open things up to talk about Emilia’s story regarding the benefits of implementing automation across the entire organization as opposed to in silos (1:45). Emilia then shares some other highlights from the panel, including blockchain, cloud computing and regulators’ relationships...

Dan and Anthony are joined by Bill Murphy, chief technology officer of Blackstone and the Waters Wavelength podcast’s first-ever guest. The guys talk to Bill about technical debt (legacy systems that build up over time) and how firms can effectively handle it (1:56). They wrap things up discussing how the NBA playoffs are shaping up (22:00).

Dan invites Gabriel Woo, VP of innovation at RBC, onto the podcast to discuss some of the recent announcements the Canadian bank has made about artificial intelligence (2:45). Later on, Dan and Anthony welcome on former WatersTechnology editor and current Risk.net writer James Rundle to discuss the recent breakdown in the London Stock Exchange-Deutsche Börse merger (25:30). The guys wrap things up...

Dan opens things up explaining why he’s not recording the podcast from Canada (:34). Then he and Anthony discuss colleague Aggelos Andreou’s story on organized trading facilities (OTFs) and how their implementation will affect the European marketplace (2:10). US staff writer Emilia David then joins the podcast to talk about her story looking at the rise of request-for-quote (RFQ) trading platforms...

Dan and Anthony decide to switch things up, using Dan’s column this week as a jumping off point to have a wide-ranging debate about what kind of impact artificial intelligence will have on our day-to-day lives in the future (1:50). They wrap things talking about the likelihood of a Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor boxing match (25:20).

Dan and Anthony open things up talking about phishing emails and how Dan was almost hacked (2:08). They then take a look at the recent trend in the industry of large and small vendors partnering up and debate if that’s a trend to keep an eye on (11:15). They wrap things up discussing the Super Bowl (16:30), including Lady Gaga’s halftime performance (23:20), and breweries they both visited over th...