Waters Wavelength

Episode 247: DTCC’s Peve on using tokenization to streamline private markets

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jennifer Peve, managing director, and head of strategy and business development at DTCC, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss how to...

Episode 246: Bill Murphy on innovation discovery

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave, joins Tony on the podcast to talk about innovation discovery, talent acquisition, and techn...

Episode 245: Sustainability and the circular economy

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ec...

Episode 244: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on modernizing mainframes

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 243: LSEG’s head of innovation on strategy and deep learning

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Geoff Horrell, head of innovation at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), joins the podcast to talk about the exchange’s innovation st...

Episode 242: State Street's COO on acquisition strategy

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 241: Big Tech and the capital markets

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 roadbloc...

Episode 240: Kris Hopkins on digital assets

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kris Hopkins, head of capital markets at SBI Digital Markets, the Singaporean subsidiary of SBI Digital Assets, joined the Waters Wavelength Podcast t...

Episode 239: The ‘E’ in ESG and quarantine woes

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 238: Trying to get back on track

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 237: Shameek Kundu on AI explainability

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shameek Kundu, former chief data officer at Standard Chartered, and now head of financial services and chief strategy officer at Truera, a startup ded...

Episode 236: Market data, ESG, and interoperability

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony give listeners an overview of our three heavy-hitters of the week. https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/784...

Episode 235: Privacy and hybrid remote-work

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 pe...

Episode 234: Vaccine shots and anxiety

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 r...

Episode 233: Asian exchanges

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Keiren Harris, strategy-based market data consultant and the founder of DataCompliance, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to discuss how exchan...

Episode 232: AI networking and virtual conferences

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Annie Wu, senior conference producer at Infopro Digital (WatersTechnology’s owner), joins Wei-Shen on the Waters Wavelength Podcast. They...

Episode 231: Dealing with Gen-Z

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Robert Wigley, chairman at UK Finance, joins Wei-Shen on the Waters Wavelength podcast to talk about his new book ‘Born Digital’ and ho...

Episode 230: Bloomberg on FRTB

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eugene Stern, head of market risk product, and Brad Foster, head of enterprise data content at Bloomberg respectively, join the Waters Wavelength Podc...

Episode 229: World Backup Day

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the Wavelength Podcast, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss their backup data habits.

Episode 228: Automated Bars

20 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the Wavelength Podcast, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss tech disruption in the bar industry.

Episode 227: PanAgora Asset Management on ESG

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

George Mussalli, chief investment officer of equity investments at the firm, and Mike Chen, the firm’s director of portfolio management and sustaina...

Episode 226: M&A and People

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of the Wavelength Podcast, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about the importance of communication when it comes to M&A activity within a company...

Episode 225: The 'GameStop' Controversy

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony speak with WatersTechnology’s new GameStop editor Rebecca Natale to get the skinny on the Reddit vs. Wall Street saga. ...

Episode 224: Mental Health

17 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wei-Shen and Tony are trying a different format this year with the podcast, and they start by discussing mental health and ways to help and support co...

Episode 223: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on Cloud Adoption

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For the last podcast of 2020 here at WatersTechnology, Wei-Shen speaks with Likhit Wagle, general manager of global banking at IBM, about how financia...

Episode 222: Grasshopper’s John Lin on Using Tech for Good

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, John Lin, founder and now chairman of Grasshopper, a Singaporean prop-trading firm, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They talk about his expe...

Episode 221: Tech Execs Discuss Innovation in 2020

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, two bank technology executives join the podcast to discuss what’s driving innovation in the capital markets during a pandemic, and the ch...

Episode 220: ESG in the News

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Wei-Shen and Tony take a look at some headlines involving ESG. Come for the headlines, stay for the snark.

Episode 219: People & Datacenters on the Move?

14 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss some headlines from across the industry. 2:30 Texas woos financial services firms located in New Jersey. (Dalla...

Episode 218: David Hardoon on AI’s Unforeseen Challenges

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Hardoon, senior advisor for data and artificial intelligence at UnionBank of the Philippines, joins to discuss all things artificial intelligenc...

Episode 217: Citi Ventures' Victor Alexiev on Problem Solving

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Wei-Shen talks with Victor Alexiev, director and head of programs and strategic partnerships for Citi Ventures APAC. They ta...

Episode 216: M&A and Other Banter

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a couple late postponements, Wei-Shen and Tony just spend the show having a conversation about Tony’s new pool cue and other nonsense (start o...

Episode 215: Bill Murphy on Innovation & Technical Debt

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On February 3, 2020, it was publically announced that Bill Murphy—Blackstone’s CTO for almost a decade—would be leaving the firm at the end of M...

Episode 214: BNY Mellon's Hans Brown on Innovation

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Wei-Shen talks with Hans Brown, head of enterprise innovation and chief information officer for corporate technology at BNY ...

Episode 213: Data Management in a Post-Covid World

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Once again, Wei-Shen and Tony are poaching a panel from the inaugural WatersTechnology Innovation Exchange. This week, the conversation centers around...

Episode 212: AI Gains Traction on Wall Street

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony step aside and turn the podcast over to a panel of AI experts. Last week, executives from Bank of America, Prudential, Fa...

Episode 211: Using Behavioral Analytics

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Clare Flynn Levy, founder and CEO at Essentia Analytics, joins to talk about her shift from the buy side to going “native”...

Episode 210: What Was This Episode Even About?

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Since it’s the end of August, Tony and Shen—mainly Tony—ramble incoherently about Covid tests and influencers. Come September, we’ll be back w...

Episode 209: Previewing the Innovation Exchange

22 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s podcast is something of a preview for next month’s WatersTechnology Innovation Exchange. Tony, Wei-Shen, Max Bowie, and Joanna Wright ...

Episode 208: The Battle Between Innovation & Practicality

14 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about a recent story published on WatersTechnology (link below) where tech execs from UBS, Deutsche Bank, Societe Ge...

Episode 207: Vaccine Tracking and Other Alt Datasets

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony share their thoughts on new alternative datasets relating to the pandemic, and how investment firms are taking advantage ...

Episode 206: Liquidnet's Simon Maughan

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Simon Maughan, Liquidnet’s head of trading alpha, joins (3:00-35:30) to discuss the current landscape in the agency-brokin...

Episode 205: Just Talkin'

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This one is more of a therapy session for Wei-Shen and Tony. No tech on this one, folks. On the show, Wei-Shen vents her frustration over Hong Kong’...

Episode 204: Nasdaq on Cloud Strategy

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Nikolai Larbalestier, head of cloud strategy at Nasdaq, joins Tony on the podcast. They discuss cloud adoption, Nasdaq’s cloud data servic...

Episode 203: Finos’ Columbro on Open Source

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Gabriele Columbro, founder and executive director of Finos, joins the podcast. He and Wei-Shen discuss how the capital markets’ perception...

Episode 202: Northern Trust’s Pete Cherecwich, Part 2

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Pete Cherecwich, president of asset servicing at Northern Trust, joins the podcast to talk about how outsourcing has bled into the front-of...

Episode 201: Refinitiv Labs on Unstructured Data

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Sanjna Parasrampuria, head of Refinitiv Labs in Asia, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to talk about unstructured data and the new SentiMine pr...

Episode 200: The Reunion Special

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To mark the 200th episode of the podcast, Wei-Shen and Tony bring back Dan DeFrancesco and James Rundle. Together they reminisce on the beginnings of ...

Episode 199: Working Through Covid-19

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marshall Saffer, vice president and head of Americas sales at Hazeltree, joins Tony on the podcast to talk about software development issues...

Episode 198: DTCC’s Peve on DLT

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Peve, managing director of business innovation at the DTCC, joins to discuss two new projects the company is working on in the distributed le...

Episode 197: A Look at Innovation

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Benjamin Quinlan, CEO and managing partner at Quinlan & Associates, joins the podcast to talk with Wei-Shen about his new report Beyond The...

Episode 196: Bloomberg’s Gerard Francis, Part 3

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, comes back on the podcast to talk with Tony about lessons learned during Covid...

Episode 195: The Challenges of Returning to the Office

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss on how companies should be communicating ‘back-to-office’ moves to their employees. Is there a right way to d...

Episode 194: ITRS Group’s Warren on Capacity Planning

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Guy Warren, CEO of ITRS Group, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They discuss the importance of capacity planning and some of the capaci...

Episode 193: Refinitiv's John Walsh on Alt Data

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, John Walsh, director of strategy and innovation at Refinitiv joins the podcast. Along with Tony, he discusses the regulatory challenges sur...

Episode 192: Security and BCP Challenges in a Pandemic

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, George Ralph, managing director of RFA, a cloud and cybersecurity provider to the alternative investment sector, joins Wei-Shen on the podc...

Episode 191: Vendor Due Diligence During the Pandemic

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Richard Blore, CEO of KY3P, a company of IHS Markit, joins Tony on the podcast. They talk about the challenges of vendor due diligence, par...

Episode 190: Itiviti’s Gefen on Coronavirus Lessons and Bloomberg SSEOMS Migration

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Ofir Gefen, head of Asia-Pacific at Swedish trading and technology provider Itiviti, talks with Wei-Shen about some of the c...

Episode 189: Coronavirus and the Asset Management Landscape

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about BlackRock chairman Larry Fink’s recent letter to shareholders. They then wonder if some roles may be at risk...

Episode 188: OpenFin's Mazy Dar Talks Interoperability

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Mazy Dar, CEO and co-founder at OpenFin joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. First, they talk about how the developing coronavirus (Covid-19) sit...

Episode 187: Digital Asset on Blockchain Issues

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Kelly Mathieson, head of enterprise solutions, and Dan O’Prey, chief marketing officer of Digital Asset, join Tony on the podcast to talk...

Episode 186: NLP and Transformer Models

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Joanna Wright, our London editor, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast to talk about her feature on how transformer models are benefitting the fie...

Episode 185: Gamers Tech and Data Mining

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about two features recently published on the website. The first, written by Wei-Shen, is on how video game technolog...

Episode 184: Broadridge’s Mark Schlesinger

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Schlesinger, Broadridge’s CIO, joins the podcast to talk about Broadridge’s efforts in migrating its infrastructure to IBM Cloud, and how tha...

Episode 183: Transforming the Workforce

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Tony and Wei-Shen talk about issues dealing with transforming the workforce while financial firms start to automate and digitize. They disc...

Episode 182: Third-Party Resiliency and Regulatory Pressure

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Tony and Wei-Shen talk about third-party resiliency and how interconnected systems are. They discuss how disruptive outages and vulnerabili...

Episode 181: M&A News; Limitations of AI

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony is back on the podcast with Wei-Shen. They talk about the investment Swedish private equity firm EQT made in Rimes Technologies, as...

Episode 180: FactSet's Sara Dillon

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Dillon, FactSet’s head of private markets, joins the podcast to discuss the private markets and how firms are looking to pull together this dis...

Episode 179: Deepfakes and the Capital Markets

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Josephine Gallagher, UK senior reporter at WatersTechnology, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast. They talk about the feature Josephine wrote abo...

Episode 178: MEMX’s CEO & COO

15 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jonathan Kellner, chief executive officer, and Tom Fay, chief operating officer at the Members Exchange (MEMX), join Tony on the podcast. T...

Episode 177: Data Implications of 5G & IoT

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony discuss the increase in data that firms will see coming to market as a result of 5G networks and IoT-connected devices. T...

Episode 176: Data Hungry AI; Women in Data

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about how firms experiment with AI and ML and how firms should be more specific when they talk about these technique...

Episode 175: Tradeweb's Billy Hult

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast this week, Wei-Shen and Tony briefly discuss the Waters USA conference. Then, Billy Hult, president of Tradeweb Markets, speaks with Du...

Episode 174: Waters USA Preview

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prior to today, there have been two hosts of the Waters Wavelength Podcast: Dan DeFrancesco and Anthony Malakian. Now, we have a third: Wei-Shen Wong!...

Episode 173: Hadoop, Data Warehousing

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Giles Nelson, CTO of financial services for MarkLogic, joins the podcast to discuss data issues facing the capital markets, data warehousing, and Hado...

Episode 172: Buy-Side Trading & Automation

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jonathan Clark, CEO of Luminex, and David Hagen, Luminex’s head of product, join the podcast to look at some of the challenges and opport...

Episode 171: FactSet's Rich Newman on Open Data

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Rich Newman, global head of the Content and Technology Solutions (CTS) group at FactSet, joins to discuss this idea of open data and delves...

Episode 170: A European Consolidated Tape

05 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and Josephine Gallagher, senior reporter for WatersTechnology, discuss the European consolidated tape and how it mirrors what we’...

Episode 169: Wall Street Rides FAR for Autism

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Singer, founder and president of the Autism Science Foundation, and Bryan Harkins, executive vice president at Cboe Global Markets, join the po...

Episode 168: A Look at the Hemp Market

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At the beginning of August, PanXchange launched its industrial hemp exchange. Julie Lerner, founder and CEO of PanXchange, describes the thinking behi...

Episode 167: Keith Lubell on Libra, Big Tech & Prog. Languages

30 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s guest is Keith Lubell, CTO for Berkery Noyes, an M&A investment bank based out of midtown Manhattan. When it comes to talking innovation...

Episode 166: Brian Lichtenberger on Alternative Data

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Lichtenberger, cofounder and CEO of 7Park Data, joins to talk about challenges facing firms as they look to incorporate alternative data into th...

Episode 165: Roman Ginis on Trade Execution

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After the Soviet Union broke apart, Roman Ginis and his family left Ukraine and came to America. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Califo...

Episode 164: Changes at WatersTechnology

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Malakian and Jo Wright walk through some of the changes that have taken place at WatersTechnology and what it will mean for the podcast—all ...

Episode 163: Tony Amicangioli of HPR on Cloud, Race to Zero

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Amicangioli, founder and CEO of HPR, formerly known as Hyannis Port Research, joins the podcast to chat about his career. Amicangioli has had an ...

Episode 162: IEX on the Transaction Fee Pilot

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, John Ramsay, chief market policy officer of IEX Group, the parent of the Investors Exchange (IEX), talks about the US Securities and Exchan...

Episode 161: Bloomberg's Gerard Francis on Alternative Data

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, re-joins the podcast to discuss the alternative data space. 1:45 Why did the ...

Episode 160: Pete Cherecwich of Northern Trust

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Cherecwich, president of Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) at Northern Trust, joins the podcast to examine the challenges that firms face...

Episode 159: Simon Hazlitt on Cloud Challenges

30 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Simon Hazlitt calls in from London (11:00 min mark) to discuss where firms can get tripped up when migrating to the cloud. Hazlitt is the c...

Episode 158: Giancarlo's Swan Song; Crypto Madness; DTCC/ASX Blockchains; CAT Update

22 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James discuss some of the biggest stories to come out of this year’s FIA Boca event, including Christopher Giancarlo’s thou...

Episode 157: FIA Boca Preview & Other News

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James look at a wide range of topics this week: 1:00 The winners of this year’s Women in Technology and Data Awards wer...

Episode 156: Gil Mandelzis, Capitolis

03 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gil Mandelzis joins the podcast this week. Gil founded Traiana back in 2000 and eventually became CEO of EBS BrokerTec. In 2017 he cofounded another s...

Episode 155: Martin Boyd of FIS; A Look at the CAT

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Boyd, global head of FIS’s institutional and wholesale business unit, which represents the legacy SunGard suite of services, joins to discuss...

Episode 154: Bryan Cross, UBS Asset Management

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Cross, head of UBS Asset Management’s Quantitative Evidence and Data Science team (QED), joins the podcast to talk about why the firm created ...

Episode 153: Nasdaq's Lars Ottersgård

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lars Ottersgård, head of market technology for Nasdaq, joins to discuss what he sees as being the biggest tech trends in the capital markets for 2019...

Episode 152: Initial Margin Rules; Investment Theory

27 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

First (1:00), the final phases of initial margin rules are expected to capture over the next two years more than 1,000 buy-side and sell-side firms, w...

Episode 151: Examining the MEMX Announcement

18 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Sussman, head of market structure and liquidity partnerships for Liquidnet, joins the podcast to talk about the Members Exchange (MEMX), which i...

Episode 150: Bill Murphy of Blackstone Group

09 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Bill Murphy, chief technology officer of Blackstone Group, joins to discuss his firm’s migration to the public cloud and what he views as ...

Episode 149: The Biggest Stories from 2018

21 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony and James discuss the trends that they think will dominate the headlines in 2019: https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/4045791/th...

Episode 148: A Deep Dive on APAC for 2019

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With James away in London, Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor for WatersTechnology, calls in from Hong Kong to give her perspective on trends unfolding in the...