Waters Wavelength Ep. 305: Cato Institute's Jennifer Schulp
Jennifer joins to discuss what regulatory priorities might look under Paul Atkin's SEC.
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.
To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can click on the download button in the player above.
You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
00:00 Tony and Shen discuss the Super Bowl and Tony’s close encounter with a pizza cutter
13:00 Jennifer Schulp, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, joins Eliot on the show
16:00 Core focuses of the SEC going forward
23:00 The Uyeda interim administration
28:00 The new crypto agenda
32:00 “Minding the shop” vs. “setting the stage”
39:00 The Consolidated Audit Trail
Contact Info:
As is the case with everything we do, we’d love to get some feedback from our listeners.
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 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
Episode 297: How to talk to the media
Episode 296: Questions about data quality
More on Regulation
Doing a deal? Prioritize info security early
Engaging information security teams early in licensing deals can deliver better results and catch potential issues. Neglecting them can cause delays and disruption, writes Devexperts’ Heetesh Rawal in this op-ed.
SEC pulls rulemaking proposals in bid for course correction
The regulator withdrew 14 Gensler-era proposals, including the controversial predictive data analytics proposal.
Trading venues seen as easiest targets for Esma supervision
Platforms do not pose systemic risks for member states and are already subject to consistent rules.
The Consolidated Audit Trail faces an uncertain fate—yet again
Waters Wrap: The CAT is up and running, but with a conservative SEC in place and renewed pressure from politicians and exchanges, Anthony says the controversial database faces a death by a thousand cuts.
Exchanges plead with SEC to trim CAT reporting requirements
Letters from Cboe, Nasdaq and NYSE ask that the new Atkins administration reduce the amount of data required for the Consolidated Audit Trail, and scrap options data collection entirely.
EU banks want the cloud closer to home amid tariff wars
Fears over US executive orders have prompted new approaches to critical third-party risk management.
Friendly fire? Nasdaq squeezes MTF competitors with steep fee increase
The stock exchange almost tripled the prices of some datasets for multilateral trading facilities, with sources saying the move is the latest effort by exchanges to offset declining trading revenues.
Europe is counting its vendors—and souring on US tech
Under DORA, every financial company with business in the EU must report use of their critical vendors. Deadlines vary, but the message doesn’t: The EU is taking stock of technology dependencies, especially upon US providers.
