Rebecca Natale

London, New York

Senior Reporter at WatersTechnology

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

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Optiver relies on BMLL market data for quant strategy

3 weeks 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

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.
Regulators can’t dodge DOGE, but can they still get by?

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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 month 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.