Waters Wavelength Ep. 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)

- By Wei-Shen Wong, Anthony Malakian and Rebecca Natale
- 27 Jun 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 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)

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00:00 – Reb and Tony discuss recent reporting around Cusip and updates on the class action lawsuit

12:30 – Riad Chowdhury, head of Asia-Pacific, and Dan Burke, global head of emerging markets at MarketAxess, join the podcast

14:40 – Block trading in fixed income vs. equities

20:20 – Drivers for larger-sized trades

23:00 – MarketAxess’s Targeted RFQ

31:00 – Challenges for dealers

33:00 – Learnings from the equities world

39:00 – Trends in bid/ask spreads for EM hard-currency debt

44:20 – AI model for Targeted RFQ

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 322: Navigating air travel and cybersecurity

Episode 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells

Episode 320: Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner

Episode 319: Bloomberg IB chat and operational resiliency

Episode 318: Hamilton Lane’s Griff Norville

Episode 317: Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum

Episode 316: Finbourne Technology’s Toby Glaysher

Episode 315: Company names and the loans market

Episode 314: Capco’s Bertie Haskins

Episode 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges

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