Brian Hyndman, CEO and president at Blue Ocean Technologies, joins to discuss overnight trading 

0:00 – Nyela and Reb talk about Reb’s start at WatersTechnology
5:00 – Brian joins the podcast and walks through his background and the beginnings of Blue Ocean ATS
8:00 – How market data works for BOATS 
9:00 – Obstacles for exchanges entering the overnight space
15:00 – Moving to MEMX Technologies’ platform 
17:00 – Competition from other ATSs
20:00 – The growth of real-time information and its impact on trading
21:00 – Misunderstandings about overnight trading
22:30 – Roadmap for 2025


Episode 311: Blue Ocean’s Brian Hyndman

Tony, Reb, and Nyela talk about tariffs (not really), journalism (sorta), and pop culture (mostly).

Episode 312: Jibber-jabber


This week, Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins the podcast to talk about how firms in Asia-Pacific approach AI and data.

0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about having faith in humanity
9:30 – Jon Hodges, head of trading and asset services for Apac at FIS Global, joins and gives an overview of how he started his career in a structured credit hedge fund
13:00 – Lessons for start-ups
17:00 – Observations from tariffs
21:30 – How Asia-Pacific firms are ahead in adopting AI
24:00 – Data’s importance
27:30 – Snowflake’s dominance in the capital markets
29:00 – Asia vs. US and Europe
31:30 – FIS is investing more in AI



Episode 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges

Bertie Haskins, executive director and head of data for Apac and Middle East at Capco, joins to discuss the challenges of commercializing data.

0:00 – Reb and Shen discuss Reb’s potential as the next host
3:00 – Bertie Haskins from Capco joins the podcast 
5:30 – Four key areas around commercializing data
12:30 – Is the problem with how firms define the CDO role 
16:00 – Strategies to commercialize data
19:30 – Understanding the data roadmap
24:00 – Steps to create new data products
26:30 – Sometimes, a simple option might be the best

Episode 314: Capco’s Bertie Haskins

This week, Reb, Nyela, and Shen talk about unimaginative company names and then address some challenges in the loans market. 

0:00 – Reb goes on a rant about company names
9:00 – They discuss the challenges in the loans market
14:00 – Identifiers are so esoteric 


Episode 315: Company names and the loans market


This week, Toby Glaysher, chairman at Finbourne Technology, joins the podcast to discuss the asset servicing industry.

0:00 – Reb and Shen rant about using ChatGPT for academic projects
12:00 – Toby Glaysher from Finbourne joins the podcast and gives an overview of his 36 years of experience in the asset servicing business
16:30 – Fund accounting is a good introduction to the investment lifecycle
19:00 – A potential zero fund accountant environment
23:00 – The impact tariffs have on asset servicing firms
27:30 – The potential solution
30:30 – There are too many participants
35:30 – 95% of the work is in executing
39:30 – Reducing the cost of investing


Episode 316: Finbourne Technology’s Toby Glaysher

This week, Bitdefender’s Adrian Coleșa and Transilvania Quantum’s Sorin Boloș join to discuss security vulnerabilities in quantum computing

0:00 – Tony is back!
3:30 – Adrian Coleșa, Senior Security Researcher at Bitdefender, and Sorin Boloș, quantum software engineer at Transilvania Quantum, join the podcast
8:00 – How the partnership between Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum began 
12:00 – Research into QC as a potential target
14:00 – Why attack a QC 
19:30 – Who bears the onus
23:30 – Classical and QC vulnerabilities 
32:30 – What is a quantum antivirus

Episode 317: Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum

This week, Hamilton Lane's Griff Norville joins to discuss how the asset manager is tackling private markets data.

0:00 – Eliot joins Tony on the podcast
3:10 – Griff Norville, head of technology solutions at Hamilton Lane, joins the podcast
4:40 – Private markets data extraction
6:10 – Data storage issues
8:40 – Tackling standardization
11:00 – The dual role of being an asset manager and a data provider
15:40 – Are attitudes changing around this data?
20:00 – The expanding tech landscape

Episode 318: Hamilton Lane's Griff Norville

Tony and Shen discuss Bloomberg’s addition to IB chat, common threads in our Voice of the CTO series, and op resiliency. 

Our Bloomberg story: https://www.waterstechnology.com/data-management/7952434/bloomberg%E2%80%99s-chatbots-streamline-external-data-sharing-otc-trading 
Our Voice of the CTO series: https://www.waterstechnology.com/topics/voice-of-the-cto



Episode 319: Bloomberg IB chat and operational resiliency

This week, Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner joins the podcast to discuss digital assets and fixed income.

0:00 – Reb is back in NYC!
6:30 – Chris Bruner, chief product officer at Tradeweb, joins Nyela on the podcast 
13:30 – Tradeweb’s history with blockchain
18:40 – Gauging client reception to digital assets
28:50 – Upcoming regulatory headwinds 

Episode 320: Tradeweb’s Chris Bruner

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

Episode 315: Company names and the loans market

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