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Waters Wavelength Ep. 340: The sad state of journalism
What does this episode have to do with financial technology? Nothing, really. Happy Thanksgiving.
FCA eyes equities tape, OpenAI and Capco team up, prediction markets gain steam, and more
The Waters Cooler: More tokenization, Ediphy lawsuit updates, Rimes teams up with Databricks, and more in this week’s news roundup.
LivePivots™: Real-time insight at enterprise scale
Ideal for risk managers, data analysts and trading tech teams, LivePivots™ transforms static reporting into a dynamic, real-time capability within a single, scalable platform.
AI enthusiasts are running before they can walk
The IMD Wrap: As firms race to implement generative and agentic AI, having solid data foundations is crucial, but Wei-Shen wonders how many have put those foundations in.
Buy-side data heads push being on ‘right side’ of GenAI
Data heads at Man Group and Systematica Investments explain how GenAI has transformed the quant research process.
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side algo trading tool/suite—Tethys Technology
Product: TethysAlgo
Jump Trading spinoff Pyth enters institutional market data
The data oracle has introduced Pyth Pro as it seeks to compete with the traditional players in market data more directly.
50% of firms are using AI or ML to spot data quality issues
How does your firm stack up?
FCA files to lift UK bond tape suspension, says legal claims ‘without merit’
After losing the bid for the UK’s bond CT, Ediphy sued the UK regulator, halting the tape’s implementation. Now, the FCA is asking the UK’s High Court to end the suspension and allow it to fight Ediphy’s claims in parallel.
Treasury market urged to beef up operational resilience plans
NY Fed panel warns about impact of AI and reliance on critical third parties.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof
This week, Jan Rohof from Northern Trust Asset Management joins to discuss how asset managers and quants get more context from data.
Technology alone is not enough for Europe’s T+1 push
Testing will be a key component of a successful implementation. However, the respective taskforces have yet to release more details on the testing schedules.
EY and Microsoft partner to bring agentic AI to risk management
The two firms are part of a deal to bring agentic AI processes to core operations like lending, servicing and risk, starting at Eurobank.
T. Rowe taps Genesis, Cusip lawsuit, FanDuel-CME tie-up, and more
The Waters Cooler: Tokenization and private markets, EuroCTP-BMLL, StateStreet-PriceStats, and more.
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side CRM (customer relationship management) platform—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: S&P Global Market Intelligence for Salesforce
BST Awards 2025: Best private markets data provider—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: S&P Capital IQ Pro for Private Markets
Tokenization & Private Markets: Where mixed data finds a needed partner?
Waters Wrap: Reading the tea leaves, Anthony predicts BlackRock’s Preqin deal, Securitize’s IPO, and numerous public comments from industry leaders are just the tip of the iceberg.
Fintech proposes borrowing AI standard from autonomous cars
Amid the rapidly growing use of financial AI, startup Martini.ai urges industry practitioners to coalesce around a common language to measure their progress and understand their own projects and capabilities.
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side corporate actions platform—S&P Global Market Intelligence
Product: Managed Corporate Actions (MCA)
BST Awards 2025: Best buy-side AI (artificial intelligence) platform or tool—CompatibL
Product: CompatibL AI
Waters Wavelength Ep. 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern
This week, Mike McGovern of Brown Brothers Harriman talks with Tony about the importance of open architectures and the need for better data management in this increasingly AI-driven world.