Waters Wavelength Ep. 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes
This week, Bank of America’s Ashok Krishnan and Duncan McInnes join Tony to discuss the build, buy, borrow strategy and instilling the right culture within the bank.
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This week’s guests are Ashok Krishnan, head of global markets platform and electronic trading, and Duncan McInnes, head of global markets technology at Bank of America
0:00 – Shen and Tony talk about the Risk Live Asia 2025 conference in Singapore
7:30 – Ashok and Duncan join the podcast
11:30 – The build, buy, borrow strategy
14:00 – Building a rocket ship
19:00 – Instilling a culture that remains
22:30 – Doubling down on the ‘Why’
28:00 – Managing tech priorities
34:00 – Dealing with data, interoperability, and tech debt
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Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com
Past 10 episodes:
Episode 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy
Episode 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton
Episode 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy
Episode 329: LLMs and the dead internet theory
Episode 328: FundGuard’s Lior Yogev
Episode 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim
Episode 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
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