Emerging Technologies
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.
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.
LSEG and Nasdaq partner, MarketAxess’ new auctions, TXSE raises $250M, and more
The Waters Cooler: UBS executes its first tokenized fund transaction, LNRS opens APAC datacenter, MayStreet hits back in court, and more in this week’s news roundup.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers
This week, Tony chats with Interop.io’s Bob Myers about agentic AI, the Model Context Protocol, and interoperability.
SS&C’s Bill Stone: RPA still important for agentic endeavors
The fintech is leaning on almost four decades in financial services and its many acquisitions to power AI deployment and meet the market’s needs.
LLM firms come for finance, BMLL gets bought, LSEG users get Preqin feeds, and more
The Waters Cooler: Tradeweb completes fully electronic RFM swaptions trade, IBM cashes in on digital asset mania, and more frights and delights in this week’s news roundup.
Experts urge banks to prep for quantum’s reckoning
Mathematicians across the world warn that current encryption methods will be crackable by quantum computers inside the current decade, but banks have been reluctant to prepare.
DTCC revamps tech abilities following global reporting overhaul
The Repository & Derivatives Services unit is implementing new technologies to help its clients keep up with changing reg reporting regimes.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 336: Tokenization mania
This week, Tony and Shen talk about the topic that everyone seems to be talking about...tokenization.
Finos’ orchestration platform, digital asset hype, OMS news and more
The Waters Cooler: ISI’s sovereign debt footprint, Bolsa Mexicana’s modernization efforts, Franklin Templeton’s DeFi play, and more.
BlackRock and DRW execs bullish on tokenization potential
DRW’s Don Wilson expects every instrument to be traded on-chain in five years’ time.
Barclays carefully studying stablecoins
CEO CS Venkatakrishnan called the class of digital assets “broad and fascinating,” but urged peers to consider how it fits into the current banking deposit framework.
How an asset manager employs analytics to evaluate performance
Channing Capital, an institutional investment firm managing nearly $5 billion in assets, uses Aapryl to analyze its performance.
Nasdaq looks to ramp up tokenized securities efforts
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman wants to see tokenized securities come to the US markets “in a staged process.”
Franklin Templeton’s great DeFi migration
TradFi’s money and DeFi’s tech will inevitably combine, says the asset manager’s futurist-in-residence.
S&P’s $1.8 billion buy, an FIA restructure, a tokenization craze, and more
The Waters Cooler: CAIS creates CAISey, BNY deploys EquiLend, and more in this week’s news roundup.
When it comes to cybersec, the walls of separation are too high
Waters Wrap: Anthony examines some recent statements made by prominent cybersecurity experts and why those words might ring hollow.
Larry Fink: ‘We need to be tokenizing all assets’
The asset manager is currently exploring tokenizing long-term investment products like iShares, with an eye on non-financial assets down the road.
Examining how adaptive intelligence can create resilient trading ecosystems
Researchers from IBM and Wipro explore how multi-agent LLMs and multi-modal trading agents can be used to build trading ecosystems that perform better under stress.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 335: Some tech talk...kinda
This week, Wei-Shen and Tony talk about some recent events making headlines.
Moody’s exploring blockchain’s impact on digital bond ratings
Blockchain and crypto were meant to eliminate conventional finance’s risks, but Risk Live North America panelists said such risks have not been reduced, and new ones have been introduced.