Articles by Anthony Malakian
Technology is About More than Technology
Anthony explains that if you can’t solve for fundamental business challenges, your deep-learning algorithm will never ever run inside a bank or institutional asset manager.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 173: Hadoop, Data Warehousing
MarkLogic's CTO, Giles Nelson, discusses some of the pressing data challenging facing the industry.
This Week: JP Morgan/Limeglass, Trumid/Citi, Numerix, ExpandAlpha
A summary of some of the past week's financial technology news.
The Public Interest
Anthony explains why it's important to keep an eye on acquired firms long after the ink has dried on the deal.
Confluence & StatPro: A Sign of the Buy-Side Times
Confluence has a big job ahead integrating StatPro’s various analytics tools.
Deepfakes Will Create Unknown Headaches for Wall Street
Anthony wonders whether capital markets firms are ready for the advent of deepfakes and how that relates to KYC issues.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 172: Buy-Side Trading & Automation
Jonathan Clark and David Hagen of Luminex join to discuss how the buy side is responding to an increasingly-automated trading environment.
MarkitSERV Delays Credit Rollout for TradeServ Platform
The vendor is live with FX NDFs on the new cloud-based platform, but credit has been pushed to 2020 earliest.
A Look Inside UBS's Quantitative Evidence & Data Science Team
Led by Bryan Cross (pictured), the asset manager's QED team aims to blend quant and fundamental to find unique solutions to new problems.
As Blockchain Evolves, Interoperability Between Vendors Could Create Challenges
During the most recent CFTC TAC meeting, members discussed interoperability issues, as well as quantum encryption concerns.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 171: FactSet's Rich Newman on Open Data
Rich Newman joins to talk about challenges facing the alternative data space and why open data is becoming increasingly important.
September 2019: It’s the People
Anthony reflects on the value and importance of people in technology, and remembers Waters staff and conference attendees who died on September 11, 2001.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 170: A European Consolidated Tape
Josephine Gallagher and Anthony Malakian discuss the merits of a European consolidated tape and how it relates to the CAT.
Wavelength Podcast Ep. 169: Wall Street Rides FAR for Autism Research
Cboe's Bryan Harkins and Alison Singer join to discuss the charity and autism research.
Rimes Rolls Out ETF Managed Data Service for the Buy Side
The managed service aims to provide portfolio, risk and compliance managers with additional ETF transparency.
August 2019: The More Things Change
Mergers can be tricky, especially when it comes to the human equation.
Waters Rankings 2019 Winner's Interview: Genesis
Stephen Murphy explains the vendor's cloud-based offering.
Waters Rankings 2019 Winner's Interview: Clearpool
Brian Schaeffer explains how Clearpool is expanding.
Waters Rankings 2019 Winner's Interview: SS&C Advent
Katherine Pearce talks about SS&C Advent's win in the
Waters Rankings 2019 Winner's Interview: SS&C Eze
Frank Orzechowski discusses SS&C Eze's win the in the OMS category.
Wavelength Podcast Episode 168: A Look at the Hemp Market
Julie Lerner joins to talk about the hemp market and PanXchange's launch of a hemp exchange.
Scotiabank Turns to Cloud GPUs for Risk Calculations
The Canadian bank has significantly improved the time it takes to run XVA calculations, and has big plans to further expand its XVA cloud GPU program.