Waters Wavelength Ep. 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges
This week, Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins the podcast to talk about how firms in Asia-Pacific approach AI and data.
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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0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about having faith in humanity
9:30 – Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins and gives an overview of how he started his career in a structured credit hedge fund
13:00 – Lessons for start-ups
17:00 – Observations from tariffs
21:30 – How Asia-Pacific firms are ahead in adopting AI
24:00 – Data’s importance
27:30 – Snowflake’s dominance in the capital markets
29:00 – Asia vs. US and Europe
31:30 – FIS is investing more in AI
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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 311: Blue Ocean’s Brian Hyndman
Episode 310: SigTech’s Bin Ren
Episode 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta
Episode 307: The shrinking OMS landscape
Episode 306: Reykjavik and market data
Episode 305: Cato Institute’s Jennifer Schulp
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