Rebecca Natale

London, New York

Senior Reporter at WatersTechnology

I went to Catholic school. | European editor, @waterstech | [email protected]

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A network of Cusip workarounds keeps the retirement industry humming

5 days ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Data licenses from Cusip Global Services (CGS)—and the things they do and do not permit—sit at the heart of an ongoing federal court case in the Southern District of New York. Recent witness testimony by a Texas-based fiduciary firm, Leafhouse Financial Advisors, detailed a complex network of identifiers used in the retirement industry—from Cusips, Isins, and tickers, to SecIDs, FIGIs, and other proprietary identifier schemes.
Perceive, reason, act: Agentic AI, graph tech used to assess risk

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Jay Krish, a senior executive at State Street, experiments with large language models to help PMs monitor for risk. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page In 2010, researchers in Tokyo, seeking to ease the city’s traffic burden, used slime mold—a brainless, amoeba-like organism—to model the city’s subway system. In the experiment, scientists placed the mold at the center of a map of Tokyo and placed oats at each major city hub.
Overnight trading, a new dealer-to-client credit biz, so much AI, and more

3 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

I’m writing this on my third day back in New York for our Technology and Data in Financial Markets conference, which was held yesterday in Manhattan. I’m jet-lagged, battling a cold, have spent hundreds on Ubers, and I’ve eaten very little food that’s not pizza. Hell yeah, brother. Announced this weekTP Icap acquires Neptune, embarks on new business venture with bank partnersInterdealer broker TP Icap has acquired Neptune Networks, an independent financial data company co-owned by a consortium of
Optiver relies on BMLL market data for quant strategy

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

When firms weigh whether to buy or build a product, market data—especially of the real-time variety—often falls automatically into the “buy” bucket. But historical data is a different beast, and the work often falls on firms’ in-house teams to source such data from the various exchanges on which they transact. It is a large lift, and it’s often not scalable due to each exchange’s own quirks, says Edward Monrad, EMEA head of corporate strategy at Optiver.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 316: Finbourne Technology’s Toby Glaysher

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Follow 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.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 314: Capco’s Bertie Haskins

2 months ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Follow 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.
Regulators can’t dodge DOGE, but can they still get by?

2 months ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page The Department of Government Efficiency—some might say those words are oxymoronic—says it is eliminating government waste and saving US taxpayers money. The Elon Musk-led outfit estimates it has saved $160 billion so far, an average of $993.79 per taxpayer. However, DOGE’s goalposts have repeatedly moved, and news outlets have reported it’s overstating its progress.
FCA sets up shop in US, asset managers collab, M&A heats up, and more

2 months ago | waterstechnology.com | Rebecca Natale

I spent hours trying to figure out how to convey my state of mind lately in fewer than 150 words. I’ve decided to let American novelist David Foster Wallace do the talking:“At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen
Navigating the tariffs data minefield

2 months 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

2 months 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.