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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
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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.
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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.
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3 weeks ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie |Anthony Malakian |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page Edwards Sewall Sanford could arguably be called the world’s first fintech professional. Sanford was an American businessman who, having lost everything in the Panic of 1837, relocated from Mississippi to New York and began working at Adams Express Company, an investment firm now known as Adams Funds.
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3 weeks ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
Cboe promotes CTO Lipscomb to EVPCboe Global Markets has promoted Tim Lipscomb to executive vice president and chief technology officer. In this role, Lipscomb will continue to oversee the expansion of Cboe’s technology platform globally. Lipscomb served as senior vice president and CTO since 2022, overseeing software engineering and quality assurance for Cboe’s equities, options and futures markets, as well as its Data Vantage business. As CTO, Lipscomb has overseen several successful technology
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3 weeks ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
What is your position within your firm? Mary Cecola: I’m CTO, asset management, at Broadridge Financial Solutions. How long have you been in the financial services industry? Cecola: I’ve worked in the industry for over 30 years. How did you get into the industry? Was it a conscious decision or did you “fall” into it? Cecola: I got into the computer science industry somewhat unintentionally.
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4 weeks ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page In June, WatersTechnology will be hosting an event called the Tech & Data in Financial Markets Summit/Forum/Conference…I’m not sure whether our events team has settled on that last part, just yet. Anyway, for it, we’ve been surveying C-level technologists from an assortment of banks and asset managers to better tailor the agenda. (Which can be found here, though it is subject to change).
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian |Max Bowie |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
What is your position within your firm? Maureen Downs: I am co-founder and chair of Connamara Technologies. How long have you worked in the financial services industry? Downs: I have worked in the industry for over 30 years. How did you get into the industry? Was it a conscious decision, or did you “fall” into it?
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie |Anthony Malakian |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page S&P Global has integrated the data from its acquisition of Visible Alpha last year into its Capital IQ Pro platform, allowing its consensus estimates and historical financial data to be combined with Capital IQ’s financial data and to apply the analytics available within Capital IQ Pro to the Visible Alpha datasets.
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1 month ago | 
waterstechnology.com | Max Bowie |Anthony Malakian |Rebecca Natale |Theo Normanton
If you work in clearing and settlement, market data, trading technology and connectivity, datacenter and cloud operations, or AI development—in short, everything that WatersTechnology covers—it’s been a busy week for you. So, let’s get to it. Announced this weekDTCC’s NSCC to offer 24x5 clearing next yearThe Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. says its National Securities Clearing Corp subsidiary is planning to increase clearing hours to 24 hours per day, five days per week, from 8 p.m. Sunday to 8
