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.
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This week, Wei-Shen and Tony share their thoughts on new alternative datasets relating to the pandemic, and how investment firms are taking advantage of it.
2:00 – Tony talks about how he’s putting together the August issue of the WatersTechnology magazine, focused on our coronavirus coverage.
4:00 – They discuss Jo Gallagher’s story on vaccine tracking data as an alt dataset, and how it can signal potential “winners” to investment professionals.
8:30 – Advancements in NLP and sentiment analysis has helped give these new datasets a leg up.
10:00 – Tony talks about geolocation data is used to monitor foot traffic in and out of hospitals.
13:00 – Then, they discuss the privacy issues associated with geolocation data, and how many don’t realize the personal data they’re giving away.
19:30 – They wonder if government entities would regulate the use of wearing fitness trackers in the future.
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Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758; wei-shen.wong@infopro-digital.com
Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com
Past 10 episodes:
Episode 197: A Look at Innovation
Episode 198: DTCC's Peve on DLT
Episode 199: Working Through Covid-19
Episode 200: The Reunion Special
Episode 201: Refinitiv Labs on Unstructured Data
Episode 202: Northern Trust’s Pete Cherecwich, Part 2
Episode 203: Finos’ Columbro on Open Source
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