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Wei-Shen Wong and Anthony Malakian discuss the hottest financial technology topics in the capital markets every week.

  1. Episode 343: Broadridge’s Jason Birmingham

    12/18/2025

    Episode 343: Broadridge’s Jason Birmingham

    This week’s guest is Jason Birmingham, CTO and head of global engineering at Broadridge (0:00) – Tony and Shen reminisce on an amazing snowman they built (7:00) – Jason joins the podcast and explains the “modern CTO mandate” (14:30) – The fundamentals matter (16:00) – A platform strategy (20:30) – Solving the ontology (26:00) – The blueprint (31:00) – Necessary skillsets

    37 min
  2. Episode 342: LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Sophie Lagouanelle

    12/09/2025

    Episode 342: LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Sophie Lagouanelle

    This week’s guest is Sophie Lagouanelle, vice president of product for financial crime compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions (0:00) – Tony and Shen talk about their Spotify 2025 Wrapped (5:00) – Sophie joins and reflects on the state of financial crime (14:00) – Volume and speed (17:30) – AI and ML’s role (25:30) – Changes within compliance teams (30:00) – Focus areas for regulators (40:30) – Shared memory

    49 min
  3. Episode 341: Citi’s Pitts and Topa

    12/02/2025

    Episode 341: Citi’s Pitts and Topa

    This week’s guests are Michele Pitts, managing director and global product head of transaction management, and Marcello Topa, director for global market advocacy, policy, and strategy at Citi Investor Services 0:00 – Reb and Shen talk about the death of rom-com movies 9:30 – Michele and Marcello join the podcast 11:30 – Updates from UK and EU’s taskforces 15:30 – Applicability of lessons from US T+1 19:00 – How tech can help 25:00 – Prevention vs. cure 30:00 – Metrics firms should have 32:30 – T+0 is inevitable

    36 min
  4. Ep. 340: The sad state of journalism

    11/26/2025

    Ep. 340: The sad state of journalism

    The week of Thanksgiving in the US is one of the slowest news weeks of the year. So Anthony and Nyela Graham (who is subbing in for Wei-Shen) talk about the news media, instead.

    42 min
  5. Episode 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof

    11/18/2025

    Episode 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof

    This week’s guest is Jan Rohof, Asia-Pacific director of quantitative strategies and solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952654/northern-trust-asset-management-enlists-network-theory-to-construct-alpha-signals?ref=header-search 0:00 – Tony and Shen delve into two documentaries he recently watched 11:00 – Jan joins and talks about how he built a multi-factor model in high school 17:30 – The four Vs of data 20:30 – Efforts and resources required for good data infrastructure 26:30 – Focus on the economic fundamentals and reasoning 30:00 – NTAM’s research to implementation process 40:30 – Alternative data should be a misnomer

    46 min
  6. Episode 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern

    11/11/2025

    Episode 338: BBH’s Mike McGovern

    For the first 9 minutes, Tony rambles on about US elections…naturally. The good stuff starts at 9:30, when Mike McGovern, global head of technology engagement at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), joins the show. Over the course of 30 minutes, Mike and Tony talk about the importance of building an open architecture so as to better position the organization for “innovation enablement” (11:00); lessons learned and mistakes made when experimenting with AI and the importance of structured data (15:00); they delve into some of the reasons for why data management is still such a challenge (20:00); Mike opines as to whether newer, more sophisticated forms of AI will help fix those old data management problems or compound those issues (25:00); does he have any worries about the younger generation relying too much on AI (28:00); how delves into how his ideas around strategic partnerships have changed over the years (33:00); and some words of wisdom for vendors approaching BBH (37:00).

    41 min
  7. Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers

    11/03/2025

    Ep. 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers

    Bob Myers runs Interop.io’s io.Intelligence unit. He joins the podcast (7:30) to explain what agentic AI really means (16:00); how the promise of agents could be good for interoperability between applications and systems (21:00); the hype versus reality of AI at financial institutions (25:00); an explainer of the Model Context Protocol and the need to avoid sins of the past (31:00); and what the industry should keep in mind when it comes to AI’s rapid evolution and the need to keep interoperability in mind (37:00). [Editor’s note: Tony confused ChartIQ with Glue42 when describing the former’s origins being in Charlottesville, Virginia. He’s not the brightest crayon in the box…give him a break.]

    44 min
  8. Ep. 336: Tokenization mania

    10/24/2025

    Ep. 336: Tokenization mania

    Over the last few weeks, the CEOs of several major financial institutions, as well as regulators around the globe, have been talking about tokenization, stablecoins, and blockchain. Wei-Shen and Tony do their best to unpack why this is significant.

    43 min
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Wei-Shen Wong and Anthony Malakian discuss the hottest financial technology topics in the capital markets every week.

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    WatersTechnology
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    343
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