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In this podcast CIPD's Chief Executive Peter Cheese. Robert Bolton, Partner, Leader of Global HR Transformation Centre of Excellence, KPMG and Hayley Brown, Talent Intelligence Analyst, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), for AVON Cosmetics, discuss the results of a survey and how HR needs to be able to use analytics to prove its own value to the business.

Podcast 77:  Analytics: How HR can influence strategy through data

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


This week, Par Cassells joins Nyela to discuss shorter settlement cycles and the role of vendors in the transition.

0:00 – Tony and Nyela talk highlights from the Tech & Data in Financial Markets (TDFM) conference
7:00 – Par Cassells, chief client officer at AccessFintech, joins Nyela on the podcast
9:00 – Par’s takeaways from North America’s move to T+1
13:00 – The upcoming moves to T+1 in the EU and UK
17:00 – T+0 margin vs. T+0 settlement
20:30 – Difference between the transitions
24:00 – Vendors’ role in the T+1 transition


Episode 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells


This week, Reb, Nyela, and Shen discuss concerns around air travel and notable cybersecurity incidents.

https://www.waterstechnology.com/emerging-technologies/7952488/agentic-ai-takes-center-stage-bank-tech-projects-new-funding-rounds-and-more?cx_artPos=1&cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_1#cxrecs_s

0:00 – Reb, Nyela, and Shen talk about Reb’s flight back from New York
10:30 – They discuss two stories from our last Waters Cooler about the previous hacks on the SEC’s Edgar database and Ion


Episode 322: Navigating air travel and cybersecurity

This week, Riad Chowdhury, head of Asia-Pacific, and Dan Burke, global head of emerging markets at MarketAxess, join to discuss block trading in fixed income. Plus Reb discusses her recent article about Cusip and updates on the class action lawsuit moving through the courts.

00:00 Reb and Tony discuss recent reporting around Cusip and updates on the class action lawsuit
12:30 Riad Chowdhury, head of Asia-Pacific, and Dan Burke, global head of emerging markets at MarketAxess, join the podcast
14:40 Block trading in fixed income vs. equities
20:20 Drivers for larger-sized trades
23:00 MarketAxess’s Targeted RFQ
31:00 Challenges for dealers
33:00 Learnings from the equities world
39:00 Trends in bid/ask spreads for EM hard-currency debt
44:20 AI model for Targeted RFQ

Episode 323: MarketAxess’s Chowdhury and Burke (plus some Cusip updates)


This week, Reb and Nyela discuss BNY’s digital workers and what the use of AI in society signals for the future.


Episode 324: A philosophical conversation about AI

This week’s guest is Brian Bejile, cofounder & CEO, Octaura

0:00-7:20: Anthony Malakian and Rebecca Natale, Europe Editor for WatersTechnology, complain for seven minutes about poor customer service and artificial intelligence.

7:20-35:23: Brian Bejile and Nyela Graham, senior reporter at WatersTechnology, have an actual informative discussion—as opposed to Tony and Reb’s diatribes—about the origins of Octaura, modernization of the credit markets, the platform provider’s move into the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) space, and the need for more data and analytics on the buy side. 

Episode 325: Octaura’s Brian Bejile

This week’s guest is Nick Kolba, CEO and co-founder of Connectifi, who joins the podcast to discuss the Model Context Protocol, LLMs and agentic AI.  

0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about Astronomer’s ad campaign
5:30 – Nick Kolba joins the podcast 
8:00 – Step changes or big jumps in tech
18:00 – Excitement for the Model Context Protocol
21:00 – Parallels between FDC3 and MCP
24:30 – Concerns around security
30:00 – Work that still needs to be done
41:00 – Code generation for “senior engineers”


Episode 326: Connectifi’s Nick Kolba

This week’s guest is Mo Rahim, group chief data officer at Standard Chartered, who joins the podcast to discuss data and AI governance and guardrails for AI.

0:00 – Tony and Shen talk about recent shows they’ve watched 
9:00 – Mo Rahim joins the podcast
13:30 – Understand your core identity
17:00 – People and literacy
19:00 – Get your data right
25:00 – Standard Chartered’s research, partnerships, and innovation pillar   
29:00 – Building AI in a safe and responsible way
32:30 – AI is your plus one  


Episode 327: Standard Chartered’s Mo Rahim

Collaboration tools in the open-source Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) address the human side of data analytics. O'Reilly's Rachel Roumeliotis speaks with Chuck Freedman, Chief Developer Advocate for TAP. 

Making data analytics easier for data scientists, developers, and DevOps

In this session of the Super Data Science Podcast, I chat with Ruben Kogel who has done some amazing data analytics in the startup space.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at https://www.superdatascience.com/1

The Super Data Science Podcast: Big Data | Analytics Careers | Mentors | Success

SDS 001 : Self-serve Analytics, Data Science MBA and Managing a Team of Analysts with Ruben Kogel

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Analytics Industry Expert Jen Underwood. You will learn about the 6 megatrends in data, get more insights about entrepreneurship and know about Jen's wealthy experiences in the world of data analytics for two decades.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at https://www.superdatascience.com/18

SDS 018 : 20 Years in Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, and Megatrends in Data with Jen Underwood

Earlier this week, Waters’ sibling publication, Inside Data Management, hosted its annual North American Financial Information Summit (NAFIS). During the event, Stephen Morse, former head of global financial data partnerships at Twitter, spoke to the audience about how traders are mining data created through social media—and, specifically, through Twitter—to find a trading edge. After Anthony gives some information on how to vote in this year’s Waters Rankings, Stephen’s presentation will be played in full. See below for timestamps:

(0:00-2:30) Info on the Waters Rankings
(2:35) The start of Stephen’s presentation
(4:00) A look at the trends driving alternative data adoption and the types of data that’s increasingly being used
(6:40) A look specifically at social media data
(7:15) Then a look at Trump’s tweets moving markets
(8:30) Information that matters specifically for capital markets usage
(10:45) Some examples of crowd-sourced estimates data
(12:10) Some usage examples of sentiment analysis and volatility analysis
(16:35) Examples of consumer conversation for product/brand movements
(19:25) Examples of breaking news and event detection using Twitter
(25:35) Quick Q&A

Twitter Discussion

Episode 71: Social Data, Analytics and Trading

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

Episode 71: Social Data, Analytics and Trading

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