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

This week, SigTech’s CEO Bin Ren joins Eliot to discuss GenAI’s progress since ChatGPT’s emergence in 2022, agentic AI, and challenges with regulating AI.

0:00 – Wei-Shen and Tony discuss their bar trivia adventures

5:30 – Bin Ren, CEO of SigTech, joins Eliot on the podcast

7:00 – Agentic AI

10:30 – Next steps in GenAI

15:00 – Is AI impossible to regulate?

23:30 – The understanding gap between tech and finance teams

This week, Tony and Nyela discuss Nyela's week spent in Boca Raton, Florida covering the FIA Boca conference as well as the current developments around 24/7 trading in US equity markets.

0:00- Tony and Nyela discuss the beginning of baseball season in the United States

3:25- They discuss what happened last week at FIA Boca

Caesar, who previously spent 15 years at Google, joins to discuss Arta’s goal of putting a private banker in everyone’s pockets.

0:00 – Reb and Shen talk about cat punches and Reb’s profile on CME’s Terry Duffy

https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tech/7952311/exclusive-terry-duffy-on-cmes-cloud-future-takeover-targets-and-candy

7:00 – Caesar Sengupta, co-founder and CEO of Arta Finance, joins Wei-Shen on the podcast

10:00 – Big Tech’s challenges in trying to get deep into finance and the capital markets

19:30 – Why it’s hard for traditional finance players to create new user experiences

22:00 – Arta’s use of AI and application of agentic AI

28:00 – How Arta is different from robo advisors

30:30 – Partnerships with banks

32:30 – Arta’s focus in the next few months

34:00 – Google connections

This week, Tony and Nyela discuss FactSet’s recent acquisition of LiquidityBook and what it could signal for trading technology.

https://www.waterstechnology.com/trading-tech/7952274/factset-liquiditybook-the-buy-side-oms-space-continues-to-shrink

0:00 – Tony and Nyela discuss the year's Best Picture Oscar winner

3:30 – They discuss the evolution of the OMS space

Reb is back on the podcast to talk about her trip to Reykjavik, as well as two market data reports released this month.

0:00 – Reb talks about her travels to Iceland

14: 00 – They discuss market data fees

Jennifer joins Eliot on the podcast this week to discuss the changing agenda at the SEC under Paul Atkins, crypto regulation, and the status of the Consolidated Audit Trail.

00:00 Tony and Shen discuss the Super Bowl and Tony's close encounter with a pizza cutter

13:00 Jennifer Schulp, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, joins Eliot on the show

16:00 Core focuses of the SEC going forward

23:00 The Uyeda interim administration

28:00 The new crypto agenda

32:00 "Minding the shop" vs. "setting the stage"

39:00 The Consolidated Audit Trail

Lee joins to discuss changes in communication platforms over the last few years.

0:00 – Tony and Shen discuss their favorite desserts

4:30 – Lee Garf, general manager for financial markets compliance at Nice Actimize, joins Nyela on the show

5:30 – They discuss regulatory fines from 2024 and what it means for 2025

9:30 – The role of cloud

11:00 – Nice Actimize’s approach today

13:00 – How Nice Actimize is approaching AI

18:00 – The AI training process and financial lingo

25:30 – Predictions for 2025

This week, Dan Entrup, co-founder of AggKnowledge and the creator of the It’s Pronounced Data newsletter joins Tony on the podcast. They discuss private markets data, artificial intelligence, and more.

00:00 Wei-Shen and Tony ramble on about Lunar New Year traditions

9:05 Dan Entrup, co-founder of AggKnowledge and the creator of the It’s Pronounced Data newsletter, joins the show

11:06 Dan’s career and the origins of AggKnowledge

15:33 The origins of the It’s Pronounced Data newsletter

20:42 The private markets data ecosystem

22:16 Challenges around private markets data

25:56 Why Dan doesn’t like the term “alternative data”

27:53 Data is still sold, not bought

31:52 Misalignment of data needs

36:54 The current appetite for AI

This week, Nick Kolba, CEO and co-founder of Connectifi, joins Tony on the podcast. They discuss interoperability, the FDC3 standard, and the challenges of starting a company.

4:30 – Nick joins Tony on the podcast

11:30 – Desktop containers and interoperability

15:30 – Things should just work

19:00 – Limitations of the FDC3 movement

27:30 – You need tech that can support the transformation of data

28:30 – AI and its irrelevance to structured data

38:30 – Unexpected challenges of starting a company