Articles by Wei-Shen Wong
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.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 310: SigTech’s Bin Ren
This week, SigTech’s CEO Bin Ren joins Eliot to discuss GenAI’s progress since ChatGPT’s emergence in 2022, agentic AI, and challenges with regulating AI.
A new data analytics studio born from a large asset manager hits the market
Amundi Asset Management’s tech arm is commercializing a tool that has 500 users at the buy-side firm.
Experts say HKEX’s plan for T+1 in 2025 is ‘sensible’
The exchange will continue providing core post-trade processing through CCASS but will engage with market participants on the service’s future as HKEX rolls out new OCP features.
Overnight trading blocked, consolidated tapes, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, data costs, and more
The Waters Cooler: Deutsche Börse provides crypto custody, FIS has a new GenAI tool, and some M&A activity in this week’s news round-up.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta
Caesar, who previously spent 15 years at Google, joins to discuss Arta’s goal of putting a private banker in everyone’s pockets.
Asset manager Fortlake turns to AI data mapping for derivatives reporting
The firm also intends to streamline the data it sends to its administrator and establish a centralized database with the help of Fait Solutions.
How a Chinese AI firm shook the tech world
DeepSeek’s AI model is the very ethos of doing what you can with what you have.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 305: Cato Institute's Jennifer Schulp
Jennifer joins to discuss what regulatory priorities might look under Paul Atkin's SEC.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 304: Nice Actimize’s Lee Garf
Lee joins to discuss changes in communication platforms over the last few years.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 303: AggKnowledge’s Dan Entrup
Dan, who also created the It’s Pronounced Data newsletter, joins the show to discuss the growing interest in private markets data, artificial intelligence, and more.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 302: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
Nick joins the show to give his views on trends in the interoperability space and the FDC3 standard.
AI co-pilot offers real-time portfolio rebalancing
WealthRyse’s platform melds graph theory, neural networks and quantum tech to help asset managers construct and rebalance portfolios more efficiently and at scale.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 301: SIX’s Javier Hernani
Javier Hernani, head of securities services at SIX, joins to discuss everything T+1.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 300: Reflecting on humble beginnings
It is our 300th episode! Tony and Shen reflect on how it all started.
As the ETF market grows, firms must tackle existing data complexities
Finding reliable reference data is becoming a bigger concern for investors as the ETF market continues to balloon. This led to Big xyt to partner with Trackinsight.
Observations and lessons to learn from the move to T+1
The next few years will see other jurisdictions around the world look to North America for guidance on transitioning to shorter settlement cycles.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 299: ACA Group’s Carlo di Florio
Carlo di Florio joins the podcast to discuss regulations.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 298: GenAI in market data, and everything reference data
Reb is back on the podcast to discuss licensing sticking points for market and reference data.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 297: How to talk to the media
This week, Tony and Wei-Shen discuss the dos and don’ts for sources interacting with the media.
BNY uses proprietary data store to connect disparate applications
Internally built ODS is the “bedrock” upon which BNY plans to become more than just a custodian bank.
The Waters Cooler: Tidings of comfort and joy
Christmas is almost upon us. Have you been naughty or nice?
Waters Wavelength Ep. 296: Questions about data quality
It’s all about the data, data, data.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 295: Vision57’s Steve Grob
Steve Grob joins the podcast to discuss all things interoperability, AI, and the future of the OMS.