This week, Yogita Mehta, commercial product director for corporate actions at SIX Financial, joins the podcast to discuss the existing challenges firms face in the corporate action lifecycle. 

2:30 – Yogita joins the podcast and gives an overview of her career.
6:30 – They discuss the biggest challenges in the corporate action lifecycle. 
13:00 – How do firms deal with these challenges?
15:30 – The talent pool is shrinking.
19:30 – Initiatives some exchanges are involved in to standardize the start of the lifecycle.
23:00 – Are there examples where automation can go wrong?
26:00 – Organizations that achieve 70-75% STP rates should pat themselves on the back. 
30:00 – Yogita walks through some technology themes she sees within corporate actions.

Episode 274: The issue with corporate actions

This week, Expero’s managing director and financial services practice lead, Tim Baker, joins Reb on the podcast to discuss the ongoing Cusip case, the FCA’s wholesale market data study, and issues to do with copyrighting market data.

https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7951301/the-cusip-lawsuit-a-love-story 

5:00 – Tim joins the podcast and talks about his interest in the Cusip lawsuit
12:00 – They ponder why more plaintiffs haven’t joined the suit
15:00 – Tim discusses details on the alleged violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act
19:30 – The European Commission’s 2011 decision on concerns with S&P’s licensing of US Isins
26:30 – They discuss the FCA’s wholesale market data study
36:30 – Is there meaningful innovation in market and reference data?
39:00 – Figi’s place in the identifier space
45:00 – Tim says there’s a lot of complexity in the market that should be much simpler

Episode 278: Tim Baker on Cusip lawsuit, data copyrights, and innovation in market data

Reb and Shen discuss Reb’s article about how generative AI will impact the market data industry and how that will also creep into the reference data space. Reb also details a market data framework by Substantive Research, the drama around reference data identifiers, and a preview of her next story.
https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952088/ai-set-to-overhaul-market-data-landscape-by-2029-new-study-finds?ref=header-search
https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/7951990/industry-seeks-to-avoid-future-clashes-over-data-costs
https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/7951982/new-working-group-to-create-open-framework-for-managing-rising-market-data-costs

Episode 298: GenAI in market data, and everything reference data

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

New tracks tagged #referencedata