Waters Wavelength Ep. 358: Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner

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 Chris Bruner, chief product officer at Tradeweb.

0:00 – Tony vents about a recent PR incident

13:00 – Chris joins the podcast and explains why Tradeweb got into the prediction markets game. [This is Chris’ second time on the show. Here is his previous episode]

17:00 – Why is it a necessity to incorporate this data onto the Tradeweb platform, rather than the customer going directly to the prediction markets provider?

19:00 – How is this data different than sentiment data coming from, say, Reddit, X, or Facebook?

22:00 – What were some of the lessons learned along the way? [Hint: agentic AI enters the chat]

25:30 – What improvements need to be made around metadata and lineage to combine this new feed with existing datafeeds and services?

30:00 – Fixed income has been electronifying for quite some time now, but progress in certain areas remains slow. At the same time, though, in just a few years the market has gone from generative AI to agents starting to act autonomously. What unique challenges and opportunities does that rapid technological evolution present to fixed-income markets?

36:00 – For a chief product officer, how do you balance governance with being innovation-forward?

40:00 – What are some of the infrastructure hurdles related to overnight trading that people need to start thinking about now?

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Past 10 episodes:

Episode 357: Off topic, on record

Episode 356: When software fails

Episode 355: Faculty’s David Bholat

Episode 354: Vibing on vibe coding

Episode 353: ExeQution Analytics’s Cat Turley

Episode 352: Agentic workflows, AI bootcamps, regulation, and faves from Seoul

Episode 351: MarketAxess’s Lee and Alexandre

Episode 350: AI but make it about data basics

Episode 349: The other Amsterdam and more Cusip drama

Episode 348: FIA Boca, prediction markets, and the stupidity of Chatham House rules