Waters Wavelength Ep. 325: Octaura’s Brian Bejile
The CEO joins the podcast to talk about the vendor’s modernization efforts in credit and CLOs.
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’s guest is Brian Bejile, cofounder & CEO, Octaura
0:00-7:20: Anthony Malakian and Rebecca Natale, Europe Editor for WatersTechnology, complain for seven minutes about poor customer service and artificial intelligence.
7:20-35:23: Brian Bejile and Nyela Graham, senior reporter at WatersTechnology, have an actual informative discussion—as opposed to Tony and Reb’s diatribes—about the origins of Octaura, modernization of the credit markets, the platform provider’s move into the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) space, and the need for more data and analytics on the buy side.
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Past 10 episodes:
Episode 324: A philosophical conversation about AI
Episode 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)
Episode 322: Navigating air travel and cybersecurity
Episode 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells
Episode 320: Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner
Episode 319: Bloomberg IB chat and operational resiliency
Episode 318: Hamilton Lane’s Griff Norville
Episode 317: Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum
Episode 316: Finbourne Technology’s Toby Glaysher
Episode 315: Company names and the loans market
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