Anthony Malakian

Brooklyn

Editor-in-Chief at WatersTechnology

Host at Waters Wavelength

Editor-in-Chief, @WatersTech. "Kind of intelligent." - Jenny.

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Navigating the tariffs data minefield

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie |Anthony Malakian |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton

This week, WatersTechnology published the first article in our second annual Voice of the CTO series: a deep dive into Man Group’s Project Condor, an effort to make the firm’s portfolio risk processes more efficient, authored by my colleague Eliot Raman Jones. The series will interview senior technologists at three large banks, one large asset manager, and one exchange. While it would be unthinkable for any of these firms not to have a chief technology officer or chief information officer, the
Waters Wavelength Ep. 313: FIS Global’s Jon Hodges

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology. To hear the full interview, listen in the player above, or you can click on the download button in the player above. You can also listen to us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
EMS vendors address FX options workflow bottlenecks

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Cole Lipsky |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

With foreign exchange volatility surging to new heights, a growing number of execution management system (EMS) vendors are developing automated solutions designed to help buy-side firms manage operational risk when trading FX options. Buy-side traders have long been frustrated by the lack of effective integrated workflow tools for the instruments. In December last year, the FX trading head at T Rowe Price said it “feels like it’s [done] on the back of a cigarette packet”. Now vendors like Digital
Project Condor: Inside the data exercise expanding Man Group’s universe

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Eliot Raman Jones |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Voice of the CTOLast year, WatersTechnology spoke with eight senior technologists from eight different tier-one banks. Those interviews were conducted on background to get an honest understanding of the challenges they were facing. Nearly all of those challenges still exist today—you can find those articles here.
Witad Awards 2025 winner’s interview: Kaja Zupanc (Duco)

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton

Skip to main content Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Kaja Zupanc, head of machine learning at Duco, won the data science professional of the year (vendor) category in this year’s Women in Technology & Data Awards. Key discussion points: Duco’s Adaptive Intelligent Document Processing is a project you’re particularly proud of.
BNP Paribas explores GenAI for securities services business

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

BNP Paribas is exploring whether it could use generative AI to automatically create client reports on NeoLink, the French bank’s securities services client portal launched in 2008. In March, BNPP released My Reporting, a new web app to improve client reporting in NeoLink, introducing a single dashboard, an improved user interface, and a structured library of documents and templates. “This could be one of the next steps,” Jean-Marc Freiss, chief digital services offer for BNPP’s securities services
Treasury selloff challenges back-office systems, datafeeds

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Luke Clancy |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page The selloff in US government debt this week prompted snarl-ups in trade processing at FIS and Trading Technologies, clearing sources say. Third-party clearing systems, which offer automated post-trade processing, were unable to cope with the volume of US Treasury trades, according to seven industry sources, as throughput doubled to $2 trillion a day following US tariff announcements.
Bank of America and AI, exchanges feud with researchers, a potential EU tax on US tech, and more

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Emma Gould |Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale

US tariff announcements shook global markets as social media imagined a world of $3,500 iPhones. Much remains uncertain, including whether, come December, Norad will have the AI-leveraged data to predict whether sleigh-loads of manufactured toys departing the North Pole will reach children by December 25th. Follow for more. Announced this weekMorgan Stanley agented BSL deals now live on Versana’s data platformVersana, a syndicated loan and private credit data and tech company, added Morgan Stanley
Witad Awards 2025: Risk professional of the year—Anne Leslie, IBM Cloud - WatersTechnology.com

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton

What is your position within your firm? Anne Leslie: I am the cloud risk and controls leader for the EMEA region at IBM. In this role, I lead strategic initiatives designed to help organizations, particularly in highly regulated industries such as financial services, adopt and manage cloud solutions securely. My focus is on aligning innovative technology with evolving regulatory landscapes, ensuring that operational resilience and compliance are at the heart of these transformations.
Tariffs, data spikes, and having a ‘reasonable level of paranoia’

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page When I spoke with Chris Isaacson yesterday, it was 8:30 a.m. in New York. China had just announced it would raise tariffs on US goods starting on April 10. There was an overnight selloff in US Treasuries. The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P futures indexeswere in the red. Isaacson, the chief operating officer for Cboe Global Markets, didn’t seem concerned—or, at least he wasn’t having a Gary Friedman moment.