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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.
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.
Cloud offers promise for execs struggling with legacy tech

1 week ago | waterstechnology.com | Nyela Graham

Pop or soda. Sub or hoagie. Kar-mel or care-uh-mel. Legacy technology or aging infrastructure. It’s all semantics… or is it? While regional differences in describing certain drinks and foods may elicit animated debates, legacy technology and what to do with it is at the center of its own nuanced conversations among financial technology teams. Though technology’s pace of innovation could break necks, the previous choices made by teams remain consequential. And though they say hindsight is 20/20, it
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.
Agentic AI takes center stage, bank tech projects, new funding rounds and more

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page In January, I wrote a column with the headline, “Agentic AI and big questions for the technologists”. I had seen the term in scientific journals, but none of my sources were talking about it. But as I was catching up with people before the December holiday code freeze, several industry execs were excited about the new tool.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 321: AccessFintech’s Par Cassells

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Anthony Malakian

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.
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.
BNY standardizes internal controls around data, AI

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Nyela Graham

Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Save this article Send to Print this page In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, firms across capital markets are playing catch-up with their technology stacks. They have had to ensure that their data and underlying infrastructure, among other things, are organized, insightful, and scalable for the future. For BNY, one of the oldest banks in the world, this is not the easiest task. But on data and AI, the firm has worked to make it true.
Citi close to launching GenAI investment tools

2 weeks ago | waterstechnology.com | Menghan Xiao

Citi expects to roll out investment advisory tools powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) within 12 months. “Without going into too much detail—soon, like this fiscal year,” Victor Tewari, a senior vice president in the chief data office in Citi’s wealth management and private banking group, said of the timing of the initial launch. “Then, next fiscal year, widespread [rollout].” Tewari was speaking on a panel at WatersTechnology’s Tech and Data in Financial Markets (TDFM)