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.

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This week on the podcast, Wei-Shen talks with Victor Alexiev, director and head of programs and strategic partnerships for Citi Ventures APAC. They talk about some of the challenges and opportunities within banks and how D10X—Citi Venture’s internal entrepreneurship program, which looks at moonshot projects—tackles them. 

3:30 Victor joins the podcast and gives an overview of Citi Ventures and its three pillars—investment, exploration, and learning. 

10:30 Then he delves into some of the projects D10X has worked on recently. 

13:00 Most of the solutions don’t necessitate using emerging technologies. 

15:00 Defining the problem comes first. 

20:00 Challenges and themes Citi Ventures and D10X are looking at. In Asia, Citi is interested in the lifecycle of tokenized securities.

28:30 Victor explains how the team at D10X is expandable.

32:00 The team is looking at advanced data analytics, ML, and NLP to mine external content for signals. 

Contact Info: 

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Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758;  [email protected]

Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; [email protected]

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Episode 206: Liquidnet's Simon Maughan

Episode 207: Vaccine Tracking and Other Alt Datasets

Episode 208: The Battle Between Innovation & Practicality

Episode 210: What Was This Episode Even About?

Episode 211: Using Behavioral Analytics

Episode 212: A Discussion About AI

Episode 213: Data Management in a Post-Covid World

Episode 214: BNY Mellon's Hans Brown on Innovation

Episode 215: Bill Murphy on Innovation & Technical Debt

Episode 216: M&A and Other Banter