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

  1. Episode 346: TS Imagine’s Andrew Morgan

    FEB 3

    Episode 346: TS Imagine’s Andrew Morgan

    This week’s guest is Andrew Morgan, president and chief revenue officer at TS Imagine. He talks with Wei-Shen about how fixed income trading behavior is changing. (0:00) – Tony’s side hustle (7:00) – Andrew joins the podcast and gives an overview of his background (13:00) – Changing fixed income trading behaviors (15:30) – Three main ingredients for electronic trading (24:30) – Data issues (31:30) – Equities markets run on agentic AI (34:00) – What hinders further electronification

    39 min
  2. Episode 345: Patrick McGarry’s Ride to Remember

    JAN 22

    Episode 345: Patrick McGarry’s Ride to Remember

    On September 11, 2001, Katie McGarry Noack had just arrived at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World. She was attending Waters’ first-ever conference. Of the thousands who lost their lives on that day, Katie was one, along with 70 other delegates who had arrived to catch the morning presentations or settle in before participating in panel discussions later in the day. Patrick McGarry is Katie’s brother. For the 25th anniversary of that fateful day, he wanted to do something special to remember his sister: on March 8th, he will hop on his bicycle in San Diego, California, and begin a 3,000-mile journey across the US, ending in St. Augustine, Florida, on April 20th. The goal of his Pacific-to-Atlantic journey is to raise $100,000 to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children. We hope you listen to his story. If you’d like to donate, you can find all the information you’ll need here: https://www.aridetoremember2026.com/ (6:15) – Patrick McGarry joins the podcast. (7:30) – He talks about what his 3,000-mile ride will entail. (11:15) – Patrick discusses Katie’s story and why he decided to do something so daunting to remember her. (18:45) – Why did he choose the Tunnel to Towers Foundation? (26:45) – An examination of how people handle grief differently. (31:15) – How important was it for him to have his family’s backing on this endeavor? (33:45) – Details on how to connect with Patrick.

    37 min
  3. Episode 344: Hot topics for 2026

    JAN 13

    Episode 344: Hot topics for 2026

    A little late, but a very Happy New Year from your favorite podcast hosts! This week, Tony and Shen discuss topics they think capital markets firms will focus on this year—AI and agentic AI, quantum computing, and—you guessed it—market data.

    27 min
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
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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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  • Creator
    WatersTechnology
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    346
  • Rating
    Clean
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