James Rundle, WatersTechnology’s editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor at large, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.

To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can download it.

Pete Cherecwich, president of Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) at Northern Trust, joins the podcast to examine the challenges that firms face today when trying to offer convenience through technological innovation, while also making sure that these services are secure—the old security-versus-convenience debate, but on an enterprise scale. Also, Bloomberg intends to exit two key businesses and WatersTechnology has a new reporter.

Pete Cherecwich

1:00 Pete joins the podcast
2:30 Security versus convenience
4:00 The problem with trying to monetize internal data
5:30 Navigating convenience and functionality
10:00 Changing the culture and organization
13:30 The problem with tech disintermediation
15:30 The blockchain question
18:30 Is an industry data utility the right answer?
20:30 GDPR
23:00 Security best practices
24:30 Northern Trust is partnering with Bloomberg to offer custodial data
27:00 C&IS’ product roadmap for 2019

https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/4080856/northern-trust-aims-to-automate-institutional-transfer-agency

https://www.waterstechnology.com/technology/4047886/northern-trust-plans-wider-blockchain-rollout-in-2019

In the News

30:00 Some big, exclusive news: Bloomberg intends to exit its Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) and its Know-Your-Customer (KYC) businesses, which includes Entity Exchange and Entity Intelligence.

36:00 Introducing WatersTechnology’s newest reporter, Rebecca Natale!

Contact Info

As is the case with everything we do, we'd love to get some feedback from our listeners. Feel free to reach out to Anthony or James via Twitter or email.

Anthony Malakian, editor at large: @a_malakian; [email protected]

James Rundle, US editor: @JimRundle; [email protected]

Rebecca Natale, staff reporter: @rebnatale; [email protected]

Past 10 episodes:

Episode 150: Bill Murphy of Blackstone Group

Episode 151: Examining the MEMX Announcement

Episode 152: Initial Margin Tech & Investment Theory

Episode 153: Nasdaq's Lars Ottersgård

Episode 154: Bryan Cross, UBS Asset Management

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

Episode 156: Gil Mandelzis, Capitolis

Episode 157: FIA Boca Preview & Other News

Episode 158: Giancarlo’s Swan Song; Crypto Madness; DTCC/ASX Blockchains

Episode 159: Simon Hazlitt on Cloud Challenges