Waters Wavelength

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-podcast/?viewAsMember=true https://link.springer.com/art...

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 Global 6:00 – They cover the main items on the European regulatory calendar this year 7:30 – Wha...

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 talks about his interest in the Cusip lawsuit 12:0...

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/trading-tech/7951509/what-is-aladdin-trader-black...

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/management-strategy/2479553/waters-wavelength-podc...

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 the foundations right? 20:30 – Bill walks through...

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 do firms deal with these challenges? 15:30 – The...

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/7951276/integration-looms-large-for-buy-side-firms-d...

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 markets. 7:30 – They address the evolving regulatory la...

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 time on the podcast. He first came on to talk about...

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 the State of the Union for generative AI in the ca...

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 – Steve explains how CIOs and CTOs assess the AI shift...

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 – The journey from a messaging system leveraging c...

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 familiar with Numerix and why he took the job. 13:30...

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 year, click here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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 and the right speakers are key. Then, Tony goes o...

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-Zers. Dear listener, you have been warned.

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 space to his current role at Broadridge. 7:00 – He t...

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 click here: https://nafis.eventmaker.io/ 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 – Jerome joins the podcast and gives an overview of his...

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 Fireblocks. 7:00 – He explains the technology behind manag...

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. 6:30 – He explains the nuances between how the r...

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 asset allocators and managers only treat their feve...

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 distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the lessons...

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 an overview of his 20-odd years at the buy side b...