Wei-Shen Wong

Hong Kong

Foodie and wanderluster. Perhaps also a wannabe geek. Asia Editor at WatersTechnology based in Hong Kong. Views are entirely my own.

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TMX buys ETF biz, Iress reinvests in trading tools, UBS data exposed, and more

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

We are just 10 days away from the end of June, marking the halfway point to 2026, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to quell my anxiety about time slipping away. But there are distractions—we’ve got new AI services, expansion of market data access, and more. Let’s go. Announced this weekEuroclear partners with Meritsoft and Taskize for AI serviceEuroclear has announced a collaboration with Meritsoft and Taskize to launch the next generation of its EasyFocus service. EasyFocus+ uses
Waters Wavelength Ep. 322: Navigating air travel and cybersecurity

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Follow More Less 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.
Deutsche Bank to debut tokenization platform in November

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Deutsche Bank is preparing to launch a minimum viable product (MVP) for its blockchain-as-a-service platform for asset tokenization and servicing in November 2025. The upcoming MVP is a result of the bank’s experiments with tokenized assets through its Digital Asset Management Access 2 (Dama 2) platform, for which it partnered with Axelar Network and Memento Blockchain.
Talos’s new crypto risk assets drive portfolio management system upgrade

3 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Digital assets hedge fund Firinne Capital, like most startup funds, had a choice to make: should it build or buy its portfolio and risk management systems? Opting for autonomy, it chose the more difficult path. “Given our collective quant and technology backgrounds, we architected and built our own version 1 of our PMS,” Jim Hwang, chief operating officer of Firinne Capital, says. The firm launched the Firinne Liquid Digital Assets Fund in June 2022, offering broad market exposure to digital assets
Bloomberg’s chatbots streamline external data sharing, OTC trading

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Bloomberg’s announcement this week that it will allow financial firms to deploy third-party chatbots in chat rooms on Instant Bloomberg with a new service called IB Connect: Cross-Firm Chatbots promises to increase the speed and ease with which firms can share information—such as pricing and research—with counterparties without leaving Instant Bloomberg to retrieve data.
Aussie super fund overhauls investment platform with BlackRock Aladdin

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

Aware Super—Australia’s third-largest superannuation fund, managing A$176 billion ($113 billion) of assets—is nearing the finish line of Project Odin, a multi-year overhaul of its internal investment platform. At the end of March, it completed the first phase of the project with the implementation of GoldenSource’s enterprise data management platform. Now, almost two months later, it has kicked off the final part of the project—implementing BlackRock’s Aladdin platform. This is fresh off going
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’

1 month ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

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.
M&A activity, syndicated loans, a new tariff tool, and more

2 months ago | waterstechnology.com | Wei-Shen Wong

We’ve got lots of news this week (always a good thing!). So before I waste more words, let’s jump right in. Announced this weekNomura acquires Macquarie’s asset management business for $1.8 billionNomura has agreed to acquire Macquarie’s US and European public asset management business for an all-cash purchase price of $1.8 billion, subject to closing adjustments. The agreement will see Nomura acquire 100% of stock in three Macquarie companies—Macquarie Management Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
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.
Standard Chartered goes from spectator to player in digital asset game

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 In recent memory, institutional banks and asset managers sat in the stands, watching as family offices and retail investors placed their bets on crypto assets. It wasn’t so much safety or fear that constrained them as spectators, but the lack of tools and a regulatory framework that would have let them play the game. Some of those missing parts included the custody of crypto and digital assets.