Anthony Malakian

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Editor-in-Chief at WatersTechnology

Host at Waters Wavelength

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

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State Street’s interop play for FX

1 week ago | fx-markets.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Having a stable of high-end trading platforms can be a blessing – and a curse. And while experience and familiarity are valuable, legacy systems eventually start to creak and crawl. Around 2019, State Street realised it had a problem as it looked to build upon and expand its suite of foreign exchange and cash solutions.
State Street’s interop play for FX and the buy/build debate

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Having a stable of high-end trading platforms can be a blessing—and a curse. And while experience and familiarity are valuable, legacy systems eventually start to creak and crawl. Around 2019, State Street realized it had a problem as it looked to build upon and expand its suite of foreign exchange and cash solutions.
LSEG-AWS extend partnership, Deutsche Bank’s AI plans, GenAI (and regular AI) concerns, and more

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Everything below this intro has to do with capital markets technology and data—but if you’ll allow me, I wanna talk about the ponies. Tomorrow is the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, America’s preeminent annual horse race. (I’ve always found England’s Grand National to be a bit barbaric, you know, because of all the death.)For me, I’ll always find inspiration in horse racing. These animals are majestic. While not human, they understand that they WANT to win. They know it’s a race. They have
Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page In the world of large language models, the retrieval-augmented generation framework has gained favor as companies have looked to develop LLMs. So-called RAG approaches grew in popularity about a year ago as the framework was viewed as a way to reduce hallucinations related to generative AI. They are also said by IBM to have access to the most current, reliable facts.
Bank of America reduces, reuses, and recycles tech for markets division

3 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

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.
Navigating the tariffs data minefield

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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.