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Waters Wavelength Ep. 360: Innovation, regulation, and exposure
This week, Tony and Shen talk about the balance between innovation and regulation.
How Quoniam boosted its sentiment strategy by adding an LLM
The asset manager’s upgraded system creates scores from more-informative forward-looking parts of news.
AI regulation: Who’s responsible for eliminating ‘gray areas’?
The Waters Wrap: In light of the Hugging Face hack and similar incidents involving rogue AI agents, Anthony wonders whether industry regulators will take the reins.
Semantic density: old wine, or a new vintage?
Giving AI agents enough context to carry out enterprise tasks has become a priority for firms building them, but it’s expensive. It might not have to be.
Firms get AI access to LSEG data via DataBP admin layer
LSEG has expanded its agreement with DataBP to enable customers’ AI-based tools to request and evaluate data from the exchange and maintain more comprehensive usage records.
Tech and data fragmentation irks enterprise risk managers
Often at the mercy of decisions made by other parts of the bank, ERM heads gripe at disparate systems, poor UX, and reporting gaps.
Real-time market data managed services: Evolution, not revolution
Managed services help capital markets firms enhance resilience, scalability, security and agility while retaining strategic control.
Rimes builds agents for exception management
The vendor aims to improve its data foundations to allow for greater agent autonomy.
How long will AI tokenomics matter?
The Waters Wrap: Banks and asset managers are rethinking the economics of AI. Wei-Shen examines how firms will manage token costs.
Best reference data integration vendor—Gresham
Gresham’s AI-native EDM Suite combines data from disparate sources and systems and provides user-firms with a single point of integration across the data life cycle.
PostSig, CJC team up to run data management for London broker
In the first such deployment between the vendors, CJC will act as an outsourced data administrator using PostSig’s technology to manage the firm’s data.
Best AI/machine learning data initiative—FactSet
FactSet unveiled its MCP server in December 2025, allowing secure, authorized access to the firm’s data from third‑party AI tools.
Buy-side firms warn semantic layers not a quick fix for AI integration
Semantic layers promise to teach AI what a firm’s data means. Keeping that meaning current is the part that may get overlooked, tech heads warn.
If everyone can be an expert in everything, is anyone an expert in anything?
The Waters Wrap: AI has promised to democratize knowledge and skillsets. Reb wonders whether that’s an entirely good thing.
Mind the stack: the foundation markets run on
Exchange data is an underappreciated component of the AI era, writes Jeff Kimsey.
BlackRock Aladdin prioritizing semantic layer for agentic AI
The asset manager’s tech platform is spending “a lot of time thinking about” semantics before it rolls out AI for a variety of tasks, says Aladdin exec.
GPU compute derivatives are put to the test
Interest rates and onions of the past haunt what could be a booming new index market.
The GPU compute index race begins
Major exchanges are partnering with a new crop of benchmark providers to create a tradable asset class around GPU compute.
Agents are invading. Will it stick?
The Waters Wrap: Agentic features are becoming commonplace in the workflow tools of capital markets. Nyela wonders if the trend is sustainable.
Firms look to AI and automation to enhance corporate actions processing and increase STP rates
AI and automation are modernizing corporate actions processing, improving STP rates and reducing operational complexity
Firms look to AI and automation to enhance corporate actions processing and increase STP rates
AI and automation are modernizing corporate actions processing, improving STP rates and reducing operational complexity