Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 114: A Recap of FIA Boca - Blockchain, Crypto, AI, Brexit
WatersTechnology attended the Futures Industry Association's annual conference in Boca Raton, Florida. These are the takeaways.
Anthony Malakian, US editor of Waters, and James Rundle, news editor of Waters, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
Fresh off his trip down to Florida for the annual FIA Boca conference, James Rundle talks to (a very jealous) Anthony Malakian about some of the key topics of discussion from the event.
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2:00 FIA Boca is increasingly becoming a tech conference.
4:00 How the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation plans to evolve in a post-blockchain world.
6:30 What other blockchain/distributed-ledger technology stories came out of Boca?
8:00 Cryptocurrencies were getting the most play at the conference.
13:15 Artificial intelligence is also increasingly becoming a point of interest for even non-technologists.
15:30 People are excited about the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3).
18:00 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is not happy about the European Commission’s clearing proposals.
23:30 Data security, data privacy, and Facebook-Cambridge Analytica.
(See below for links to the FIA Boca stories mentioned during the podcast.)
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FIA Boca Stories
CFTC Commissioners Lash Out at EC Clearing Proposals
DTCC Chief: We’re Going to ‘Disappear’ As Blockchain Evolves
Trading Technologies Plots Evolution Away from Screens
Eventus Plans Cautious Steps into AI for Surveillance
Banks and Buy Side Ally for Desktop App Interoperability
Contact Info
As is the case with everything we do, we’d love to get some feedback from our listeners. Feel free to reach out to Anthony or James via Twitter or email.
Anthony: @a_malakian; [email protected]
James: @JimRundle; [email protected]
Past 10 episodes:
Episode 104: Regulators Struggle with AI; SS&C Snaps up DST Systems
Episode 105: Blackstone’s Bill Murphy, Part 3
Episode 106: Blockchain on the Buy Side; the Importance of Coding
Episode 107: An Examination of the Thomson Reuters-Blackstone Deal
Episode 108: Dan Schleifer Talks About the Challenges of Creating a Fintech
Episode 109: An Overview of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee’s Meeting
Episode 110: An Examination of the Temenos-Fidessa Deal
Episode 111: The Challenges Facing Utilities
Episode 112: A Look at How Fintechs are Being Disruptive
Episode 113: IBM’s Lund on Blockchain’s Evolution
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