Wei-Shen Wong, Asia Editor, and Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.

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Bill Dague, head of alternative data at Nasdaq, joins Tony on the podcast this week. They talk about Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS and what it entails, and the trends that are driving this.  

4:30 – Bill joins the podcast and gives an overview of his role at Nasdaq.
7:30 – He goes into Nasdaq’s partnership with AWS and the exchange’s overall cloud strategy.
9:30 – Bill outlines the journey to becoming a fully cloud-native exchange and the current challenges, such as speed and security. 
15:00 – They assess the cloud landscape and scalability. 
18:30 – There is another layer coming: data as a product.
21:00 – The next shift is to data delivery mechanisms, better query interfaces, tools, and dashboards. 
25:00 – Bill addresses the main challenges in deploying cloud infrastructure at scale.

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Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758;  [email protected]

Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; [email protected]

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

Episode 244: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on modernizing mainframes

Episode 245: Sustainability and the circular economy

Episode 246: Bill Murphy on innovation discovery

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

Episode 248: A Merry Covid Christmas

Episode 249: MayStreet’s Kimmel on the NMS plan

Episode 250: Tradeweb’s Bruni on electronification of repo markets