Waters Wavelength Ep. 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta

- By Wei-Shen Wong and Rebecca Natale
- 13 Mar 2025

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.

Waters Wavelength Podcast · Episode 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta

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0:00 – Reb and Shen talk about cat punches and Reb’s profile on CME’s Terry Duffy

7:00 – Caesar Sengupta, co-founder and CEO of Arta Finance, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast

10:00 – Big Tech’s challenges in trying to get deep into finance and the capital markets

19:30 – Why it’s hard for traditional finance players to create new user experiences

22:00 – Arta’s use of AI and application of agentic AI

28:00 – How Arta is different from robo advisors

30:30 – Partnerships with banks

32:30 – Arta’s focus in the next few months

34:00 – Google connections

Contact Info:

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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 307: The shrinking OMS landscape

Episode 306: Reykjavik and market data

Episode 305: Cato Institute’s Jennifer Schulp

Episode 304: Nice Actimize's Lee Garf

Episode 303: AggKnowledge’s Dan Entrup

Episode 302: Connectifi's Nick Kolba

Episode 301: SIX’s Javier Hernani

Episode 300: Reflecting on humble beginnings

Episode 299: ACA Group’s Carlo di Florio

Episode 298: GenAI in market data, and everything reference data

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