Articles by Anthony Malakian
T. Rowe taps Genesis, Cusip lawsuit, FanDuel-CME tie-up, and more
The Waters Cooler: Tokenization and private markets, EuroCTP-BMLL, StateStreet-PriceStats, and more.
Tokenization & Private Markets: Where mixed data finds a needed partner?
Waters Wrap: Reading the tea leaves, Anthony predicts BlackRock’s Preqin deal, Securitize’s IPO, and numerous public comments from industry leaders are just the tip of the iceberg.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern
This week, Mike McGovern of Brown Brothers Harriman talks with Tony about the importance of open architectures and the need for better data management in this increasingly AI-driven world.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers
This week, Tony chats with Interop.io’s Bob Myers about agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol, and interoperability.
As outages spread, it’s time to rethink how we view infrastructure technology
Waters Wrap: First AWS and then Azure. And these are only the most recent of significant outages. Anthony says a change is needed when it comes to calculating server migrations.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 336: Tokenization mania
This week, Tony and Shen talk about the topic that everyone seems to be talking about...tokenization.
Finos’ orchestration platform, digital asset hype, OMS news and more
The Waters Cooler: ISI’s sovereign debt footprint, Bolsa Mexicana’s modernization efforts, Franklin Templeton’s DeFi play, and more.
When it comes to cybersec, the walls of separation are too high
Waters Wrap: Anthony examines some recent statements made by prominent cybersecurity experts and why those words might ring hollow.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 335: Some tech talk...kinda
This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about some recent events making headlines.
Bank of America’s GenAI plan wants to avoid ‘sins of the past’
Waters Wrap: Anthony spoke with BofA’s head of platform and head of technology to discuss how the bank is exploring new forms of AI while reducing tech debt and growing interoperability.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes
This week, Bank of America’s Ashok Krishnan and Duncan McInnes join Tony to discuss the build, buy, borrow strategy and instilling the right culture within the bank.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy
This week, Tony and Shen discuss recent books they’ve read.
The TNS–Radianz deal hints at underlying issues in trader voice
Waters Wrap: As part of its cost-cutting program, BT shipped its Radianz unit to TNS, but the deal didn’t include its Trading & Command trader voice property. Anthony finds that interesting.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy, Blackstone’s former CTO, joins to discuss that much-discussed MIT study on AI projects failing and factors executives should consider as the technology continues to evolves.
FactSet adds MarketAxess CP+ data, LSEG files dismissal, BNY’s new AI lab, and more
The Waters Cooler: Synthetic data for LLM training, Dora confusion, GenAI’s ‘blind spots,’ and our 9/11 remembrance in this week’s news roundup.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 329: LLMs and the dead internet theory
This week, Reb and Tony talk about the internet and the problems compounded by AI.
Halftime review: How top banks and asset managers are tackling projects beyond AI
Waters Wrap: Anthony highlights eight projects that aren’t centered around AI at some of the largest banks and asset managers.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 328: FundGuard’s Lior Yogev
He joins the podcast to discuss legacy tech stacks at asset management firms.
‘AI for everyone, everywhere, with everything’
Waters Wrap: Anthony looks at some interesting projects involving machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI from the last year.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim
He joins the podcast to discuss data and AI governance and guardrails for AI.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
He joins the podcast to discuss the model context protocol, LLMs and agentic AI.
The industry is not ready for what’s around the corner
Waters Wrap: As cloud usage and AI capabilities continue to evolve (and costs go up), Anthony believes the fintech industry may face a similar predicament to the one facing journalism today.
ViaNexus aims to bring data entitlement control to MCP, agentic AI
The startup believes that Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol marks a major step forward for agentic AI, but the market data industry has its own complexities that haven’t been addressed—yet.
The Model Context Protocol brings agents to life—along with risk
Waters Wrap: From chat to infrastructure modernization, Anthropic’s MCP offers a ‘bridge’ to agentic AI, but its early days may prove disillusioning.