Opinion
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Bill Murphy on getting the foundations right
Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave, is back to discuss the foundations necessary to leverage emerging technologies in the long run.
The IMD Wrap: Price you gotta pay
With regulators taking aim at data providers in the ongoing war over data fees, Max says that data doesn’t need to be free, but it should be transparent, that price increases should accompany increases in value, and that technology already exists to…
Waters Wrap: Reading the fixed-income tea leaves
A lot gets made about how much fixed income has been electronified. Anthony says that “percentage” ignores the important technological evolutions and strategic shifts being made by the vendor community.
The IMD Wrap: Talkin’ ’bout my generation
As a Gen-Xer, Max tells GenAI to get off his lawn—after it's mowed it, watered it and trimmed the shrubs so he can sit back and enjoy it.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: The issue with corporate actions
Yogita Mehta from SIX joins to discuss the biggest challenges firms face when dealing with corporate actions.
Harnessing generative AI to address security settlement challenges
A new paper from IBM researchers explores settlement challenges and looks at how generative AI can, among other things, identify the underlying cause of an issue and rectify the errors.
Waters Wrap: Operational efficiency and managed services—a stronger connection
As cloud, AI, open-source, APIs and other technologies evolve, Anthony says the choice to buy or build is rapidly evolving for chief operating officers, too.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Navigating the buy vs. build debate
Adaptive Financial Consulting’s Matt Barrett joins the podcast to discuss how firms decide to build or buy.
Waters Wrap: Market data spend and nice-to-have vs. need-to-have decisions
Cost is not the top factor driving the decision to switch data providers. Anthony looks at what’s behind the evolution of spending priorities.
Ignoring ESG data simply doesn’t make business sense
There’s a brewing controversy about “woke” ESG investments. But politics aside, ESG as a dataset brings more transparency to investment decisions.
Waters Wrap: ICE, Nasdaq and differing views about cloud
As exchanges continue to embrace cloud, the decisions they make today will have long-lasting implications.
The Cusip lawsuit: A love story
With possibly three years before the semblance of a verdict is reached in the ongoing class action lawsuit against Cusip Global Services and its affiliates, Reb wonders what exactly is so captivating about the ordeal.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: How do firms create data products?
Standard Chartered’s David Sharratt joins the podcast to discuss creating data products.
FX-style crypto platforms could bridge gap with TradFi
Emergence of execution-only ECNs, prime brokers and clearing houses brings new confidence in crypto
Waters Wavelength Podcast: David Hardoon dissects language models
David Hardoon returns to talk about the field of language and how it’s the ‘heart and soul’ of artificial intelligence.
Waters Wrap: The drama within reference data
Anthony looks at four major stories recently published that will not just affect reference data professionals, but firms of all shapes and sizes.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: IBM on generative AI
This week, John Duigenan from IBM joins the podcast to discuss generative AI.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Generative AI: The philosophical considerations
Steve Rubinow joins the podcast to discuss artificial intelligence and the hype cycle of generative AI.
How exchanges are becoming more than just marketplaces
Wei-Shen examines how exchanges are branching out and pursuing new ventures that could bring them fresh revenue streams.
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s subtle plans for capital markets domination
Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft aren't just cloud providers anymore—and their tentacles are going to spread deep into trading systems going forward.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Symphony’s Brad Levy
Symphony’s CEO Brad Levy joins to discuss the future direction for the company and ESG data and analytics.
State of the tech: A half-year check-in with large language models
AI is having a moment, and data vendors and software providers are seizing on it. Some are building models in-house, while others are looking to third parties to power their strategies—but the focus is largely on productivity and faster data access…
Waters Wrap: What’s next for desktop interop?
Anthony takes a look at the desktop application interoperability space—how we got here and where he thinks it's going.
The push for compliance tech to be flexible, not ‘a burden’
Firms need to actively drive trade surveillance compliance above and beyond regulatory requirements, says Joe Schifano.