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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This week, Bill Murphy, managing partner at Cresting Wave, joins Tony on the podcast to talk about the importance of putting the right foundations in place and having the right mindset before starting a technology project. 

7:00 – Bill joins the podcast.

10:30 – They discuss the increasing pressure for quick wins.

14:00 – How important is it to get the foundations right? 

20:30 – Bill walks through some lessons learned when looking at LLMs.

27:00 – How should firms quantify these projects? 

34:00 – They discuss the move to cloud and the time it takes.

42:00 – Bill shares the major takeaway from his career so far. 

48:30 – They close the episode, talking about the NBA finals. 

Contact Info: 

As is the case with everything we do, we'd love to get some feedback from our listeners.

Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758;  wei-shen.wong@infopro-digital.com

Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com

Past 10 episodes:

Episode 265: Conferences in a post-Covid world

Episode 266: Virtual reality and the Metaverse

Episode 267: Numerix’s new CEO

Episode 268: Symphony’s Brad Levy

Episode 269: Generative AI: The philosophical considerations

Episode 270: IBM on generative AI

Episode 271: David Hardoon dissects language models

Episode 272: How do firms create data products?

Episode 273: Navigating the buy vs. build debate

Episode 274: The issue with corporate actions