Waters - Q2 2025
Articles in this issue
A network of Cusip workarounds keeps the retirement industry humming
Restrictive data licenses—the subject of an ongoing antitrust case against Cusip Global Services—are felt keenly in the retirement space, where an amalgam of identifiers meant to ensure licensing compliance create headaches for investment advisers and…
MayStreet founder sues LSEG for fraud, breach of contract
The complaint accuses the exchange group of “defrauding” MayStreet executives following the 2022 acquisition. LSEG “strongly refutes these claims.”
LSEG–MayStreet: When good partnerships go bad
Waters Wrap: MayStreet’s founder and former CEO is suing LSEG for fraud and breach of contract. Anthony considers what the damage control might look like.
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.
XiNG: Inside Citi’s all-encompassing risk platform
Voice of the CTO: Citi’s chief information officer, Jon Lofthouse, explains how and why the bank has extended its enterprise-wide risk platform so that every trade in any asset class goes through it.
Bank of America reduces, reuses, and recycles tech for markets division
Voice of the CTO: When it comes to the old build, buy, or borrow debate, Ashok Krishnan and his team are increasingly leaning into repurposing tech that is tried and true.
Project Condor: Inside the data exercise expanding Man Group’s universe
Voice of the CTO: The investment management firm is strategically restructuring its data and trading architecture.
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
ICE’s snowball effect: Intercontinental Exchange keeps leash tight on infrastructure
Voice of the CTO: Stuart Williams talks about why the exchange has been so adamant about “controlling” its infrastructure and technology, and how that helped it manage intense market volatility.
Investing in the invisible, ING plots a tech renaissance
Voice of the CTO: Less than a year in the job, Daniele Tonella delves into ING’s global data platform, gives his thoughts on the future of Agile development, and talks about the importance of “invisible controls” for tech development.
Tech vendors, exchanges see gains from GenAI code assistants
CME Group and others report their experiences using code assist tools to generate code, support tech migrations, and speed up testing, and support functions.
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.
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.
State Street’s interop play for FX and easing technical debt
Waters Wrap: About six years ago, State Street partnered with Interop.io to tie together its GlobalLINK suite of platforms. Anthony explores how this plays into the “reuse” mantra.
Citi close to launching GenAI investment tools
The new tech will be used to improve investment recommendations and increase cross-selling opportunities.
Standard Chartered goes from spectator to player in digital asset game
The bank’s digital assets custody offering is underpinned by an open API and modular infrastructure, allowing it to potentially add a secondary back-end system provider.
BNY standardizes internal controls around data, AI
The bank has rolled out an internal enterprise AI platform, invested in specialized infrastructure, and strengthened data quality over the last year.
Deutsche Bank to debut tokenization platform in November
Dama 2 minimizes up-front hardware and infrastructure costs for firms exploring tokenization.
BNP Paribas explores GenAI for securities services business
The bank recently released a new web app for its client portal to modernize its tech stack.
Aussie super fund overhauls investment platform with BlackRock Aladdin
Aware Super’s Project Odin includes implementations of BlackRock Aladdin, eFront and GoldenSource EDM
Everything’s a chatbot. Soon, your sales trader might be, too
Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Kepler Cheuvreux are among firms considering making their internal AI assistants available to clients.
Bloomberg’s chatbots streamline external data sharing, OTC trading
The vendor details the expansion of chatbot support outside of a firm’s enterprise, and addresses user reservations about cost and spambots.
Nasdaq, AWS offer cloud exchange in a box for regional venues
The companies will leverage the experience gained from their relationship to provide an expanded range of services, including cloud and AI capabilities, to other market operators.
Overnight trading gets another boost with deal between FactSet’s LiquidityBook and Blue Ocean
FactSet’s recently acquired LiquidityBook OMS will grant buy-side clients access to overnight trading on Blue Ocean.
Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG
Researchers at Bloomberg have found that retrieval-augmented generation is not as safe as once thought. As a result, they put forward a new taxonomy to help firms mitigate AI risk.
