All Episodes
Waters Wavelength — 357 episodes
Episode 357: Off topic, on record
Episode 356: When software fails
Episode 355: Faculty’s David Bholat
Episode 354: Vibing on vibe coding
Episode 353: ExeQution Analytics’s Cat Turley
Episiode 352: Agentic workflows, AI bootcamps, regulation, and faves from Seoul
Episode 351: MarketAxess’s Lee and Alexandre
Episode 350: AI but make it about data basics
Episode 349: The other Amsterdam and more Cusip drama
Episode 348: FIA Boca, prediction markets, and the stupidity of Chatham House rules
Episode 347: Brennan Carley
Episode 346: TS Imagine’s Andrew Morgan
Episode 345: Patrick McGarry’s Ride to Remember
Episode 344: Hot topics for 2026
Episode 343: Broadridge’s Jason Birmingham
Episode 342: LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Sophie Lagouanelle
Episode 341: Citi’s Pitts and Topa
Ep. 340: The sad state of journalism
Episode 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof
Episode 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern
Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers
Ep. 336: Tokenization mania
Episode 335: Some tech talk...kinda
Episode 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes
Episode 333: Baseball, analytics and therapy
Episode 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton
Episode 331: Cresting Wave’s Bill Murphy
Episode 330: AI hot takes
Episode 329: LLMs and the dead internet theory
Episode 328: FundGuard’s Lior Yogev
Episode 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim
Episode 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
Episode 325: Octaura’s Brian Bejile
Episode 324: A philosophical conversation about AI
Episode 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)
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
Episode 312: Jibber-jabber
Episode 311: Blue Ocean’s Brian Hyndman
Episode 310: SigTech’s Bin Ren
Episode 309: FIA Boca
Episode 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta
Episode 307: The shrinking OMS landscape
Episode 306: Reykjavik and market data
Episode 305: Cato Institute's Jennifer Schulp
Episode 304: Nice Actimize’s Lee Garf
Episode 303: AggKnowledge’s Dan Entrup
Episode 302: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba
Episode 301: SIX’s Javier Hernani
Episode 300: A reflection on our humble beginnings
Episode 299: ACA Group’s Carlo di Florio
Episode 298: GenAI in market data, and everything reference data
Episode 297: How to talk to the media
Waters Wavelength Ep. 296: Questions about data quality
Episode 295: Vision57’s Steve Grob
Episode 294: Grasshopper’s James Leong
Episode 293: Reference Data Drama
Episode 292: Fencore’s James Crosby
Episode 291: Do you know enough to be dangerous?
Episode 290: Nasdaq’s Valerie Bannert-Thurner
Episode 289: WFIC at Y’all Street
Episode 288: Media’s changing landscape
Episode 287: Standard Chartered’s Brian O’Neill
Episode 286: Deutsche Bank’s Boon-Hiong Chan
Episode 285: Talos’s Samar Sen
Episode 284: Bloomberg’s Tony McManus
Episode 283: S&P’s CTO on AI, data, and the future of datacenters
Episode 282: Broadridge’s Joseph Lo on GPTs
Episode 281: Countdown to T+1
Episode 280: An exploration of the DeFi world
Episode 279: Looking into the EU regulatory landscape
Episode 278: Tim Baker on Cusip lawsuit, data copyrights, and innovation in market data
Episode 277: BMO on market structure
Episode 276: Dos and don’ts for PR People, Part Four
Episode 275: Bill Murphy on getting the foundations right
Episode 274: The issue with corporate actions
Episode 273: Navigating the buy vs. build debate
Episode 272: How do firms create data products?
Episode 271: David Hardoon dissects language models
Episode 270: IBM on generative AI
Episode 269: Generative AI: The philosophical considerations
Episode 268: Symphony’s Brad Levy
Episode 267: Numerix’s new CEO
Episode 266: Virtual reality and the Metaverse
Episode 265: Conferences in a post-Covid world
Episode 264: The London invasion
Episode 263: Broadridge’s Tyler Derr
Episode 262: Previewing the North American Financial Information Summit
Episode 261: The case for DLT in post-trade
Episode 260: Digital asset custody infrastructure
Episode 259: SteelEye’s Matt Smith on eComms surveillance
Episode 258: Treating the buy side’s fever
Episode 257: DLT loses favor
Episode 256: Fixed income execution & innovation
Episode 255: WFIC and everything cloud
Episode 254: Heads in the cloud
Episode 253: A tech unicorn's take on cloud and infra in the capital markets
Episode 252: Vendor lock-in and interoperability
Episode 251: Nasdaq’s Dague on exchange cloud strategy
Episode 250: Tradeweb’s Bruni on electronification of repo markets
Episode 249: MayStreet’s Kimmel on the NMS plan
Episode 248: A Merry Covid Christmas
Episode 247: DTCC’s Peve on using tokenization to streamline private markets
Episode 246: Bill Murphy on innovation discovery
Episode 245: Sustainability and the circular economy
Episode 244: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on modernizing mainframes
Episode 243: LSEG’s head of innovation on strategy and deep learning
Episode 242: State Street's COO on acquisition strategy
Episode 241: Big Tech and the capital markets
Episode 240: Kris Hopkins on digital assets
Episode 239: The ‘E’ in ESG and quarantine woes
Episode 238: Trying to get back on track
Episode 237: Shameek Kundu on AI explainability
Episode 236: Market data, ESG, and interoperability
Episode 235: Privacy and hybrid remote-work
Episode 234: Vaccine shots and anxiety
Episode 233: Asian exchanges
Episode 232: AI networking and virtual conferences
Episode 231: Dealing with Gen-Z
Episode 230: Bloomberg on FRTB
Episode 229: World Backup Day
Episode 228: Automated Bars
Episode 227: PanAgora Asset Management on ESG
Episode 226: M&A and People
Episode 225: The 'GameStop' Controversy
Episode 224: Mental Health
Episode 223: IBM’s Likhit Wagle on Cloud Adoption
Episode 222: Grasshopper’s John Lin on Using Tech for Good
Episode 221: Tech Execs Discuss Innovation in 2020
Episode 220: ESG in the News
Episode 219: People & Datacenters on the Move?
Episode 218: David Hardoon on AI’s Unforeseen Challenges
Episode 217: Citi Ventures' Victor Alexiev on Problem Solving
Episode 216: M&A and Other Banter
Episode 215: Bill Murphy on Innovation & Technical Debt
Episode 214: BNY Mellon's Hans Brown on Innovation
Episode 213: Data Management in a Post-Covid World
Episode 212: AI Gains Traction on Wall Street
Episode 211: Using Behavioral Analytics
Episode 210: What Was This Episode Even About?
Episode 209: Previewing the Innovation Exchange
Episode 208: The Battle Between Innovation & Practicality
Episode 207: Vaccine Tracking and Other Alt Datasets
Episode 206: Liquidnet's Simon Maughan
Episode 205: Just Talkin'
Episode 204: Nasdaq on Cloud Strategy
Episode 203: Finos’ Columbro on Open Source
Episode 202: Northern Trust’s Pete Cherecwich, Part 2
Episode 201: Refinitiv Labs on Unstructured Data
Episode 200: The Reunion Special
Episode 199: Working Through Covid-19
Episode 198: DTCC’s Peve on DLT
Episode 197: A Look at Innovation
Episode 196: Bloomberg’s Gerard Francis, Part 3
Episode 195: The Challenges of Returning to the Office
Episode 194: ITRS Group’s Warren on Capacity Planning
Episode 193: Refinitiv's John Walsh on Alt Data
Episode 192: Security and BCP Challenges in a Pandemic
Episode 191: Vendor Due Diligence During the Pandemic
Episode 190: Itiviti’s Gefen on Coronavirus Lessons and Bloomberg SSEOMS Migration
Episode 189: Coronavirus and the Asset Management Landscape
Episode 188: OpenFin's Mazy Dar Talks Interoperability
Episode 187: Digital Asset on Blockchain Issues
Episode 186: NLP and Transformer Models
Episode 185: Gamers Tech and Data Mining
Episode 184: Broadridge’s Mark Schlesinger
Episode 183: Transforming the Workforce
Episode 182: Third-Party Resiliency and Regulatory Pressure
Episode 181: M&A News; Limitations of AI
Episode 180: FactSet's Sara Dillon
Episode 179: Deepfakes and the Capital Markets
Episode 178: MEMX’s CEO & COO
Episode 177: Data Implications of 5G & IoT
Episode 176: Data Hungry AI; Women in Data
Episode 175: Tradeweb's Billy Hult
Episode 174: Waters USA Preview
Episode 173: Hadoop, Data Warehousing
Episode 172: Buy-Side Trading & Automation
Episode 171: FactSet's Rich Newman on Open Data
Episode 170: A European Consolidated Tape
Episode 169: Wall Street Rides FAR for Autism
Episode 168: A Look at the Hemp Market
Episode 167: Keith Lubell on Libra, Big Tech & Prog. Languages
Episode 166: Brian Lichtenberger on Alternative Data
Episode 165: Roman Ginis on Trade Execution
Episode 164: Changes at WatersTechnology
Episode 163: Tony Amicangioli of HPR on Cloud, Race to Zero
Episode 162: IEX on the Transaction Fee Pilot
Episode 161: Bloomberg's Gerard Francis on Alternative Data
Episode 160: Pete Cherecwich of Northern Trust
Episode 159: Simon Hazlitt on Cloud Challenges
Episode 158: Giancarlo's Swan Song; Crypto Madness; DTCC/ASX Blockchains; CAT Update
Episode 157: FIA Boca Preview & Other News
Episode 156: Gil Mandelzis, Capitolis
Episode 155: Martin Boyd of FIS; A Look at the CAT
Episode 154: Bryan Cross, UBS Asset Management
Episode 153: Nasdaq's Lars Ottersgård
Episode 152: Initial Margin Rules; Investment Theory
Episode 151: Examining the MEMX Announcement
Episode 150: Bill Murphy of Blackstone Group
Episode 149: The Biggest Stories from 2018
Episode 148: A Deep Dive on APAC for 2019
Episode 147: Crypto Insurance & Waters USA Recap
Episode 146: Waters USA Preview; Brexit Drama
Episode 145: CSDs Consider Crypto; Bank Robberies & AI; DTCC's Blockchain
Episode 144: Market Data Fees Fight & Crypto Hype
Episode 143: Rick Lane of Trading Technologies; Crypto; Alternative Data
Episode 142: AWS Talks Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets
Episode 141: Brexit and Blockchain and Data, Oh My
Episode 140: Web Data Extraction & Refinitiv Update
Episode 139: Broadridge on Emerging Tech in APAC
Episode 138: Nasdaq-Cinnober Tie-up & 10 Years After Lehman's Collapse
Episode 137: Bloomberg on Data Fragmentation
Episode 136: Blockchain Projects & Some Politics
Episode 135: The Most Important Technologies of the Future
Episode 134: All About ETFs
Episode 133: IBM on Quantum Computing
Episode 132: Thasos Group’s CEO Talks Alternative Data
Episode 131: More Bitcoin ETFs & More State Street-Charles River
Episode 130: State Street Buys Charles River
Episode 129: Interdealer Broker Troubles; Bitcoin ETFs
Episode 128: Agile Challenges; CAT Questions
Episode 127: Digital Reasoning Grows its AI Offering; A Look at the July Issue of Waters
Episode 126: Brexit Fallout; the SGX-NSE Battle Continues; Cellphone Location Data
Episode 125: Bitcoin, Ether Aren't Securities (Maybe); Privacy Issues and the Law
Episode 124: Exchange Outages and Blockchain Developments
Episode 123: An Examination of the SGX-NSE Row and Esma Targets Reporting Platforms
Episode 122: An Interview with Cboe's Chris Isaacson; GDPR Has Arrived
Episode 121: An Examination of CQRS; Coinbase’s Institutional Play
Episode 120: CCP Non-Default Losses
Episode 119: SS&C's Acquisition Plans; Data Privacy Concerns; A Look at the May Features
Episode 118: CAT Update, RTS 27 & 28 Concerns, Google Takes Aim at Finance
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 117: Machine Learning, Chatbots & Fintechs
Episode 116: The Perils of Bitcoin; SS&C and Ion Move in on Fidessa
Episode 115: CME Buys NEX Group
Episode 114: A Recap of FIA Boca - Blockchain, Crypto, AI, Brexit
Episode 113: IBM's Jesse Lund on Blockchain Development
Episode 112: Examples As To How Fintechs Are Being Disruptive
Episode 111: The Challenges Facing Utilities
Episode 110: An Examination of the Temenos-Fidessa Deal
Episode 109: An Overview of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee’s Meeting
Episode 108: ChartIQ's CEO Talks About the Challenges of Creating a Fintech Startup
Episode 107: An Examination Of The Thomson Reuters - Blackstone Deal
Episode 106: Blockchain on the Buy Side; the Importance of Coding
Episode 105: Blackstone's Bill Murphy, Part 3
Episode 104: Regulators Struggle with AI; SS&C Snaps up DST Systems
Episode 103: Mifid II is Now Law; How to Apply for the Women in Data & Tech Awards
Episode 102: The Best Longform Journalism from 2017
Episode 101: The Top 10 Stories of 2017
Episode 100: Bitcoin Futures...Again!
Episode 99: Fintech and Innovation, a Discussion
Episode 98: A Focus on Asia, Rolet Out at LSEG, Nasdaq's Bitcoin Futures
Episode 97: C-Level Execs Talk Bitcoin, Fintechs, Cognitive Computing & Open-Source Technology
Episode 96: CAT Concerns & Big Tech Takes Aim at Asset Managers
Episode 95: Bitcoin/Blockchain News, BNP's Acquisition, Post-Trade Tech
Episode 94: The CME's Bitcoin Play & FSB Worries About AI
Episode 93: Recaps of Sibos Toronto, Risk USA & Sifma DC
Episode 92: The Best of Sibos Toronto: Blockchain, Cybersecurity & Fintechs
Episode 91: Sibos Preview; M&A Activity; Blockchain Evolution; Yankees-Astros Preview
Episode 90: Compliance Officers Talk About AI, Cyber Threats, and Real-Time Monitoring
Episode 89: JPMorgan's Oliver Harris on Fintechs; T2S Developments; Star Trek; Boxing
Episode 88: CBOE's Bryan Harkins, SEC Hack, Esma Proposal
Episode 87: Disaster Recovery & Initial Margin Rules
86: Nasdaq's Use of Machine Learning & T+2 Update
Episode 85: Cybersecurity, PR Dos & Don'ts, Game of Thrones, Mayweather-McGregor
Episode 84: Quantum Computing, IBOR/Blockchain, Game of Thrones, Mayweather-McGregor
Episode 83: Systematic Internalizers & RegTech & Game of Thrones
Episode 82: An Examination of ESG, Reg SCI & More Game of Thrones
Episode 81: Fintechs in the Regulatory Crosshairs, Brexit Fallouts & Game of Thrones
Episode 80: All About Digital Currencies (And Some Libor, Politics & Game of Thrones)
Episode 79: IBM's Major Moves & FCA Worries about Mifid II Readiness
Episode 78: JavaScript Challenges & CFTC Revisits Reporting Regs
Episode 77: A Look at Mifid II Developments & the Use Cases for Behavioral Analytics
Episode 76: CIO Talks Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation & Public Cloud Adoption
Episode 75: Julia Programming; AI & Alternative Data; Digital Currencies; Game of Thrones
Episode 74: The Regtech Craze & Clearing Concerns
Episode 73: The UK Election, Brexit & Fintechs; The Bloomberg Point-Port Integration
Episode 72: An Examination of the Municipal Bond Market
Episode 71: Social Data, Analytics and Trading
Episode 70: A Look at Liquidnet's Acquisition of OTAS
Episode 69: Neal Pawar, AQR's CTO
Episode 68: An Inside Look at IBM Watson
Episode 67: A Farewell to Dan
Episode 66: Technologists & Film Portrayals
Episode 65: Public Cloud Providers Battle for Dominance, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Episode 64: Open Source, Cyber, AI – A NATAS Recap
Episode 63: Acquisition Analysis, Rise of Data Spend
Episode 62: Shadow IT, CFTC’s Giancarlo at FIA Boca
Episode 61: Automating Processes
Episode 60: Bill Murphy, Blackstone CTO
Episode 59: Gabriel Woo, VP of Innovation at RBC
Episode 58: Euro OTFs v. US SEFs, RFQ for ETFs
Episode 57: Artificial Intelligence and Humans—A Complicated Mix
Episode 56: Cybersecurity, Vendor Partnership
Episode 55: All Things Mifid II
Episode 54: Future of VR/AR with Sean Belka of Fidelity Labs
Episode 53: CAT Decision, Reg AT, Natural Language Processing
Episode 52: Regulation and Trump
Episode 51: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman
Episode 50: Dos and Don’ts for PR People, Part Two
Episode 49: Victor Anderson, Waters Editor-in-Chief
Episode 48: Max Bowie, Editor of Inside Data Management
Episode 47: Virtual Reality, Insider Trading
Episode 46: Creators of Julia Programing Language
Episode 45: Incubators, Thanksgiving Traditions
Episode 44: Fintech vs Regtech
Episode 43: US Presidential Election Recap, Reg AT
Episode 42: US Treasuries Platforms, Bats CIO, Accenture Blockchain
Episode 41: BNY Mellon CIO Suresh Kumar
Episode 40: North American Buy-Side Technology Summit Recap
Episode 39: Blockchain Features
Episode 38: Bruno Campenon, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Episode 37: CBOE-Bats Deal, Machine Learning for Social Media
Episode 36: Thomson Reuters-Redi Deal, Chicago Trading Technology Summit
Episode 35: September Features with Emilia David
Episode 34: CurveGlobal CEO Andy Ross
Episode 33: IEX's Ronan Ryan
Episode 32: Seed CX CEO Edward Woodford, State of SEFs
Episode 31: HFT Debates, RBC’s Head of Tech and Ops, PTFs
Episode 30: Northern Trust's Vijay Luthra Talks Disrupting Data Centers
Episode 29: LedgerX's Paul Chou and Zach Dexter Talk Bitfinex Hack
Episode 28: Larry Malakian (aka, Tony Malakian's Dad)
Episode 27: Trading Turrets, Sifma's CAT Comment Letter
Episode 26: Wei-Shen Wong, Waters Hong Kong Reporter, Talks Fintech in Asia
Episode 25: Buy Side KYC, User Experience
Episode 24: Blockchain Adoption with Richard Johnson, Greenwich Associates
Episode 23: Brexit, Fintech Innovation Lab, TSAM
Episode 22: Blackstone CTO Bill Murphy
Episode 21: Toronto Financial Information and Tech Summit, Fintech Regulation
Episode 20: CAT, Unbundling Research, June Features
Episode 19: BNP's Growth Plans, Buy Side KYC
Episode 18: Dos and Don'ts for PR People
Episode 17: Regulatory Landscape, Fixed Income, Blockchain
Episode 16: Sifma Ops, Nasdaq, Fixed Income
Episode 15: Consolidated Audit Trail
Episode 14: NATAS, Sell-Side Technology Awards
Episode 13: TruMid, Innovation Labs
Episode 12: Open Source, Reg AT, Panama Papers
Episode 11: Future of Exchanges, Bussmann Departure, Apple-FBI Closure
Episode 10: Markit-IHS Merger, FIA Boca
Episode 9: Cyber Risk North America, Deutsche Börse-LSE Deal
Episode 8: Consolidation of Risk Platforms, Open Source
Episode 7: Machine Learning, Climbing the Corporate Ladder
Episode 6: FBI vs. Apple, LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
Episode 5: Linux Vulnerability, Bitcoin vs. Blockchain
Episode 4: Flash Crash, MiFID II, Blockchain on the Buy Side, DMMs
Episode 3: Dark Pools, SEC, Enterprise Risk
Episode 2: Blockchain, StatPro-Investor Analytics Merger
Episode 1: Bloomberg Terminals, Work Force Issues