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Fun Friday Food Review- Shake Shack
We here at FTF wanted to bring back our Fun Friday Food Review blogs! So for all you foodies out there in the NYC area, there’s a new burger joint in town that is definitely worth a visit! Yesterday, in honor of our very own Sarah Hathaway’s birthday, the FTF team went on an adventure
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What’s in a Press Release? ‘No Comment’
All too often these days, our FTF News editor and reporters hear these two words from the industry’s finest communications and public relations professionals: “No Comment.” It happens so much that it has really started to make me wonder, What’s the point of a press release? Doesn’t the word ‘press’ imply just that? It says,
Guest Blog
Are Your Security Metrics “Top 5 Worthy?”
Guest Blogger: Dwayne Melancon,Chief Technology Officer at Tripwire, Inc. Last month I attended the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Washington, D.C. I attended a lot of very good sessions, but the one that left the biggest mark on me was a session called “Metrics That Matter,” delivered by Jeffrey Wheatman. I went to
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“What Is” Basel III?
Basel III is a set of reform measures for the banking sector established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in 2010 and 2011. The BCBS is a board of advisors organized by central bankers and is comprised of the Group of Ten countries. Basel III is the third installment of the Basel implementation
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“But teacher, my dog ate my homework!”
No matter what language you’re speaking, the meaning is the same: I did not do my homework. Personally, I have only used this excuse once. Well, maybe twice. But, hey, I had a very hungry dog!I can remember thinking that playing kickball was way more important than doing my times table’s homework! That’s what calculators
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FTF News Magazine: Summer 2012
Download the Summer 2012 issue of FTF News Magazine to read about: FTF News’ Person of the Year: Keeping up with XSP’s Brendan Farrell OMS players breaking into the middle- and back-offices J.P. Morgan’s push for best practice guidelines to help sort out diverse commercial data models How Loomis Sayles is bracing for the OTC
Guest Blog
ASP Tech Vendors Race for the Perfect Hedge Fund Solution
Guest Blogger: Sameer Shalaby, President, Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was a world-changing event whose consequences continue to play out in the global economy and the financial markets. For the hedge fund world, Lehman’s demise meant that fund managers could no longer rely on a single prime broker
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“What Is” a Swap Execution Facility (SEF)?
A swap execution facility, or SEF, is a regulated transaction platform created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (title VII). Dodd-Frank requires non-bilateral swaps to be transacted through a formal platform or via a SEF, using a using a designated contract market (DCM). This new form of regulation amends what was previously known as
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Help Us Support Operation Backpack
For the third year in a row, FTF is happy to once again be collecting school supplies and backpacks for Volunteers of America and their annual Operation Backpack campaign! Our goal is to make this year the best yet by increasing our involvement and the number of school supplies we donate. We are, therefore, asking
