Waters Wavelength

Episode 147: Crypto Insurance & Waters USA Recap

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James talk about some of the themes and discussions at our flagship Waters USA conference, which was held in New York City on D...

Episode 146: Waters USA Preview; Brexit Drama

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a brief break, Anthony and James are back. This week they look ahead to Waters USA, the December issue of Waters, and Brexit. 1:00 Waters USA w...

Episode 145: CSDs Consider Crypto; Bank Robberies & AI; DTCC's Blockchain

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James look at three news stories. First, a group of central securities depositories are exploring how their roles are translata...

Episode 144: Market Data Fees Fight & Crypto Hype

03 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James first take a look at the fight brewing between the exchanges and the trading firms over market data fees, with the Securi...

Episode 143: Rick Lane of Trading Technologies; Crypto; Alternative Data

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Lane, CEO of Trading Technologies, joins the podcast to discuss the challenges of completely shifting from a monolith, hard-install platform to a...

Episode 142: AWS Talks Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets

19 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott Mullins, worldwide financial services business development lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), joins the podcast to discuss how capita...

Episode 141: Brexit and Blockchain and Data, Oh My

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James look at key themes that arose at several conferences from around the globe over the last two weeks: Brexit and how it wil...

Episode 140: Web Data Extraction & Refinitiv Update

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Octavio Marenzi, co-founder and CEO of Opimas, joins the podcast to look at how capital markets firms are incorporating web-scrapping tools...

Episode 139: Broadridge on Emerging Tech in APAC

28 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Eric Bernstein, president of Broadridge’s asset management solutions business, joins the podcast to discuss some of the challenges that b...

Episode 138: Nasdaq-Cinnober Tie-up & 10 Years After Lehman's Collapse

21 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James first look at Nasdaq’s $190 million bid for Cinnober Financial Technologies (1:00-9:30) and then they examine what Wall...

Episode 137: Bloomberg on Data Fragmentation

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data for Bloomberg, joins Anthony Malakian on the podcast to discuss data fragmentation issues in the capita...

Episode 136: Blockchain Projects & Some Politics

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week Anthony and James dig into IHS Markit's new cloud-based TradeServ platform, which will eventually replace MarkitSERV's DSMatch platform, and...

Episode 135: The Most Important Technologies of the Future

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The September issue of Waters will mark our 25th anniversary as a publication. For it, Anthony and James spoke with over three-dozen senior executives...

Episode 134: All About ETFs

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Josephine Gallagher, European reporter for Waters, calls in from London to talk with Anthony about the exchange-traded funds (ETF) marketpl...

Episode 133: IBM on Quantum Computing

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn Guarini, vice president of IBM Industry Research, and Bob Sutor, vice president of IBM Q strategy and ecosystem for IBM Research, talk with An...

Episode 132: Thasos Group’s CEO Talks Alternative Data

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Skibiski, co-founder and CEO of Thasos Group, a startup that provides geospatial data to the hedge fund industry, joins the podcast to discuss th...

Episode 131: More Bitcoin ETFs & More State Street-Charles River

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Anthony and James discussed the announcement that State Street was buying Charles River Development. Well, a week later, and after speaking...

Episode 130: State Street Buys Charles River

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Big news today, as it was announced that State Street is buying order management system (OMS) giant Charles River. Anthony and James give their initia...

Episode 129: Interdealer Broker Troubles; Bitcoin ETFs

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James take a look at the tumultuous interdealer broker space and where it stands after John Phizackerley’s ouster at TP Icap ...

Episode 128: Agile Challenges; CAT Questions

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Christianson, director of product management at Eze Software, joins the podcast to discuss ways in which firms of all types and sizes can improve...

Episode 127: Digital Reasoning Grows its AI Offering; A Look at the July Issue of Waters

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s podcast is new and improved thanks to a large investment to improve the sound quality of the show. Let us know what you think. Also on t...

Episode 126: Brexit Fallout; the SGX-NSE Battle Continues; Cellphone Location Data

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast this week, Anthony and James first look at recent Brexit developments and examine how tech providers—and, specifically, Approved Publ...

Episode 125: Bitcoin, Ether Aren't Securities (Maybe); Privacy Issues and the Law

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James read the tealeaves after William Hinman, head of the division of corporation finance for the Securities and Exchange...

Episode 124: Exchange Outages and Blockchain Developments

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Anthony and James first look at the London Stock Exchange’s outage that resulted from “technical issues” with its auct...

Episode 123: An Examination of the SGX-NSE Row and Esma Targets Reporting Platforms

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Wei-Shen Wong, Waters’ Asia editor, joins to discuss the dispute unfolding between the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and India’s Nation...

Episode 122: An Interview with Cboe's Chris Isaacson; GDPR Has Arrived

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Chris Isaacson, the chief information officer of Cboe Global Markets, joins the podcast to discuss the exchange operator’s mass migration...

Episode 121: An Examination of CQRS; Coinbase’s Institutional Play

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Wavelength Podcast Episode 121: An Examination of CQRS; Coinbase’s Institutional Play This week, Dave Remy, the chief technology officer for Lineda...

Episode 120: CCP Non-Default Losses

13 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James examine the issue of clearinghouse management and the risk of non-default losses at a center counterparty clearinghouse (...

Episode 119: SS&C's Acquisition Plans; Data Privacy Concerns; A Look at the May Features

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James examine the M&A space, specifically as it pertains to acquisition-hungry SS&C and its aborted bid for Fidessa. They ...

Episode 118: CAT Update, RTS 27 & 28 Concerns, Google Takes Aim at Finance

28 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony calls James from Raleigh, North Carolina, where he’s spending his vacation, to talk about happenings from the past week. Included is a look ...

Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 117: Machine Learning, Chatbots & Fintechs

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James take a look at some of the topics that will be discussed at this year’s North American Innovation Summit, includin...

Episode 116: The Perils of Bitcoin; SS&C and Ion Move in on Fidessa

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James first discuss the potential Temenos-Fidessa deal and what the entry of SS&C Technologies and Ion Investment Group me...

Episode 115: CME Buys NEX Group

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James look at CME Group’s potential acquisition of NEX Group, with a focus on what this deal entails from a trading-platform ...

Episode 114: A Recap of FIA Boca - Blockchain, Crypto, AI, Brexit

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off his trip down to Florida for the FIA Boca conference, James Rundle talks to (a very jealous) Anthony Malakian about some of the key topics o...

Episode 113: IBM's Jesse Lund on Blockchain Development

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jesse Lund, head of blockchain solutions for IBM’s Financial Services unit, joins the podcast to discuss the evolution of blockchain. 2:30 Jesse gi...

Episode 112: Examples As To How Fintechs Are Being Disruptive

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a bit of a lackluster performance last week (apologies), Anthony and James return with renewed vigor to discuss fintechs. We know, we know… yo...

Episode 111: The Challenges Facing Utilities

02 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James look at some of the challenges that utilities face getting off the ground and look at whether or not emerging technologie...

Episode 110: An Examination of the Temenos-Fidessa Deal

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week it was announced that Temenos is set to buy Fidessa, in yet another major acquisition in the capital markets space during the first two mont...

Episode 109: An Overview of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee’s Meeting

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On Wednesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a meeting of its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). Anthony and James look at thre...

Episode 108: ChartIQ's CEO Talks About the Challenges of Creating a Fintech Startup

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Schleifer, co-founder and CEO of charting specialist ChartIQ, joins the podcast to discuss some of the challenges that he and fellow co-founder Te...

Episode 107: An Examination Of The Thomson Reuters - Blackstone Deal

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Inside Data Management editor Max Bowie—who has been covering the data space for 15 years—joins the podcast to give his insights as to what the Th...

Episode 106: Blockchain on the Buy Side; the Importance of Coding

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony and James examine a new report about how the buy side is lagging behind when it comes to blockchain development, and how K-12 education is lag...

Episode 105: Blackstone's Bill Murphy, Part 3

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the third time ever—a record!—private equity giant Blackstone’s chief technology officer Bill Murphy joins the podcast. Anthony and James jo...

Episode 104: Regulators Struggle with AI; SS&C Snaps up DST Systems

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James first examine how regulators and market participants are increasingly warning that the complexity of artificially-in...

Episode 103: Mifid II is Now Law; How to Apply for the Women in Data & Tech Awards

05 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On January 3, the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) officially went live. Anthony and James take a look at some of the key...

Episode 102: The Best Longform Journalism from 2017

27 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony and James go through their favorite pieces of longform journalism from 2017. These stories appeared in publications other than WatersTechnolog...

Episode 101: The Top 10 Stories of 2017

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Emilia David, US reporter for Waters, joins Anthony and James to look at the 10 biggest topics and the news stories built around these trends. 1:45 ...

Episode 100: Bitcoin Futures...Again!

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For Episode 100, Anthony and James welcome back the creator of the Waters Wavelength podcast, Dan DeFrancesco, who now writes for Waters’ sibling pu...

Episode 99: Fintech and Innovation, a Discussion

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast—which was recorded on Wednesday—Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, joins Anthony and James to discuss some of the major th...

Episode 98: A Focus on Asia, Rolet Out at LSEG, Nasdaq's Bitcoin Futures

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Wei-Shen Wong joins Anthony and James. Wei-Shen, who is based in Hong Kong, covers Asia for Waters and Inside Data Management. The tri...

Episode 97: C-Level Execs Talk Bitcoin, Fintechs, Cognitive Computing & Open-Source Technology

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Since it’s the week of Thanksgiving in the US and there’s little news to be found, this week on the podcast we’re going to do a “Best Of” ep...

Episode 96: CAT Concerns & Big Tech Takes Aim at Asset Managers

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James talk about how the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is facing pushback, but the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Episode 95: Bitcoin/Blockchain News, BNP's Acquisition, Post-Trade Tech

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James look at four of the bigger stories from the past week before turning their attention to politics. Strap in. 1:45 A ...

Episode 94: The CME's Bitcoin Play & FSB Worries About AI

03 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James examine the CME’s entrance into the bitcoin space and then take a look at the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) ...

Episode 93: Recaps of Sibos Toronto, Risk USA & Sifma DC

27 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast, Anthony and James look at the October conference scene, with recaps of Sibos in Toronto, Risk USA in New York, and Sifma in ...

Episode 92: The Best of Sibos Toronto: Blockchain, Cybersecurity & Fintechs

20 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, James pretends like he actually did some work during a trip to Toronto this week, by sharing some excerpts from his interviews at the ...

Episode 91: Sibos Preview; M&A Activity; Blockchain Evolution; Yankees-Astros Preview

13 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, James gives a preview of his trip to Toronto to cover Sibos. Then, he and Anthony look first at some recent M&A activity in the compli...

Episode 90: Compliance Officers Talk About AI, Cyber Threats, and Real-Time Monitoring

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week Anthony and James were at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, which was held in midtown Manhattan on October 5. The second half o...

Episode 89: JPMorgan's Oliver Harris on Fintechs; T2S Developments; Star Trek; Boxing

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Harris, head of JPMorgan’s In-Residence program, joins the podcast to discuss the fintech space, how these firms are proving disruptive, and ...

Episode 88: CBOE's Bryan Harkins, SEC Hack, Esma Proposal

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Harkins, head of US equities and global FX at the CBOE, joins the podcast to discuss how the merger with Bats Global Markets is going, some of t...

Episode 87: Disaster Recovery & Initial Margin Rules

15 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James first preview Waters’ first-ever fintech event, before discussing James’ trip to Chicago. Then they look at how ...

86: Nasdaq's Use of Machine Learning & T+2 Update

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, James first interviews Joakim Strid, head of European surveillance at Nasdaq, about how the exchange is incorporating machine learning...

Episode 85: Cybersecurity, PR Dos & Don'ts, Game of Thrones, Mayweather-McGregor

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast, Anthony and James first talk industry issues as they look at the New York State Department of Financial Services' new cybersecurity re...

Episode 84: Quantum Computing, IBOR/Blockchain, Game of Thrones, Mayweather-McGregor

25 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The podcast is back and with an even better sound as the gang tests out proper recording equipment. First, Wei-Shen Wong joins the podcast to talk abo...

Episode 83: Systematic Internalizers & RegTech & Game of Thrones

18 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week James and Anthony take a look at how the systematic internalizer regime is shaping up, and then examine the regtech sector. They wrap things...

Episode 82: An Examination of ESG, Reg SCI & More Game of Thrones

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony returns to the podcast after a short vacation, and he and James discuss how capital markets firms are embracing the environmental, social and ...

Episode 81: Fintechs in the Regulatory Crosshairs, Brexit Fallouts & Game of Thrones

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week Anthony is away on vacation so it’s up to James and Waters’ US reporter Emilia David to take the helm. They first look at the fintech sp...

Episode 80: All About Digital Currencies (And Some Libor, Politics & Game of Thrones)

28 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week there were several big announcements surrounding bitcoin and digital currencies. Anthony and James delve into those stories and look at Jame...

Episode 79: IBM's Major Moves & FCA Worries about Mifid II Readiness

21 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 78: JavaScript Challenges & CFTC Revisits Reporting Regs

14 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Anthony and James look at Anthony’s feature on the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks. They then discuss the CFTC’s announcement th...

Episode 77: A Look at Mifid II Developments & the Use Cases for Behavioral Analytics

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week James and Anthony look at recent regulatory developments in Europe as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has releases its long-awaited st...

Episode 76: CIO Talks Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation & Public Cloud Adoption

28 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Michael Radziemski joins Anthony and James on the podcast to discuss tech evolutions taking place in financial markets. Radziemski has 30 y...

Episode 75: Julia Programming; AI & Alternative Data; Digital Currencies; Game of Thrones

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 lau...

Episode 74: The Regtech Craze & Clearing Concerns

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 bein...

Episode 73: The UK Election, Brexit & Fintechs; The Bloomberg Point-Port Integration

07 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 72: An Examination of the Municipal Bond Market

02 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 71: Social Data, Analytics and Trading

27 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, Waters’ sibling publication, Inside Data Management, hosted its annual North American Financial Information Summit (NAFIS). Durin...

Episode 70: A Look at Liquidnet's Acquisition of OTAS

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week it was announced that Liquidnet had acquired OTAS Technologies, a vendor that had made its name in the analytics and artificial inte...

Episode 69: Neal Pawar, AQR's CTO

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 68: An Inside Look at IBM Watson

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 67: A Farewell to Dan

26 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast is dedicated to co-host Dan DeFrancesco, who, starting Monday, will move over to Waters’ sibling publication, Risk, where he’ll write...

Episode 66: Technologists & Film Portrayals

20 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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). N...

Episode 65: Public Cloud Providers Battle for Dominance, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

13 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Episode 64: Open Source, Cyber, AI – A NATAS Recap

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 63: Acquisition Analysis, Rise of Data Spend

30 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The guys open things up talking about four acquisitions that occurred over the past month. Dan and Anthony first talk about FactSet-BISAM Technologies...

Episode 62: Shadow IT, CFTC’s Giancarlo at FIA Boca

23 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 proje...

Episode 61: Automating Processes

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 E...

Episode 60: Bill Murphy, Blackstone CTO

09 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan and Anthony are joined by Bill Murphy, chief technology officer of Blackstone and the Waters Wavelength podcast’s first-ever guest. The guys tal...

Episode 59: Gabriel Woo, VP of Innovation at RBC

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 artifi...

Episode 58: Euro OTFs v. US SEFs, RFQ for ETFs

23 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 57: Artificial Intelligence and Humans—A Complicated Mix

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 imp...

Episode 56: Cybersecurity, Vendor Partnership

09 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 in...

Episode 55: All Things Mifid II

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan and Anthony take a look at four recently-published features that appeared in Waters and Inside Data Management that analyze Mifid II, which comes ...

Episode 54: Future of VR/AR with Sean Belka of Fidelity Labs

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan welcomes onto the podcast Sean Belka, the director of Fidelity Labs, to discuss virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). They talk about the differe...

Episode 53: CAT Decision, Reg AT, Natural Language Processing

19 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan and Anthony open things up discussing the podcast’s one-year anniversary (:30). They then get into Thesys being selected to build the Consolidat...

Episode 52: Regulation and Trump

12 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The guys open things up discussing when they can officially celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast. They then jump into the future of the s...

Episode 51: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman

05 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan sits down with newly-appointed Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman (1:15), who discusses Nasdaq’s use of artificial intelligence for market surveillance (...

Episode 50: Dos and Don’ts for PR People, Part Two

28 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

With a lack of big news occurring over the holidays, Dan and Anthony decide it’s time to revisit some of the biggest dos and don’ts for PR people ...

Episode 49: Victor Anderson, Waters Editor-in-Chief

21 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dan welcomes on Victor Anderson, WatersTechnology editor-in-chief, to give a preview of what the biggest topics are for 2017. Victor starts things off...

Episode 48: Max Bowie, Editor of Inside Data Management

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Dan is joined by Max Bowie, the longtime editor-in-chief of Inside Market Data and the current editor of Inside Data Management (IDM). He talks with D...