Cybersecurity threats are diverse, ranging from government sanctioned and well-resourced institutions, sophisticated criminal enterprises and disillusioned employees. Most breaches can be averted by following best practices. Others are wholly unavoidable irrespective of the systems or technology that fund managers have at their disposal. Institutional investors need to be cognizant of the threats facing their hedge
Compliance
The Next Step in the Global Legal Entity Identifier System: Data on Who Owns Whom
By Karla McKenna, Head of Standards at Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) The Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System is designed to ultimately help answer three questions: Who is who? Who owns whom? And who owns what? In other words, the publicly available LEI data pool can be regarded as a global directory, which
Back-Office
The Unknown Knowns of Vendor Risk
Guest Contributor: David Bates, Citisoft A few years ago I was intrigued by the Rumsfeld documentary “The Unknown Known”. Without getting into politics or views on the man himself, the idea of striving for continual awareness of what you know and don’t know along with how it influences your management strategy and risk is highly
Conference and Event Planning
Job Opportunity at Financial Technologies Forum for Conference Producer
Does this sound like you? Critical Thinker. Resourceful. Self Generating. Entrepreneurial. Strong Writer. Hungry to Learn. Collaborative. Creative. A Team Player. Proactive. And, likes to play a round of Cards Against Humanity on a Friday afternoon? Well, then we want YOU! FTF seeks an ambitious and professional individual to fill an immediate position of Conference
Back-Office
3 Pressures Making Post-Trade Reconciliations More Difficult in 2016
Last month, FTF brought together financial services operations leaders, fintech solutions providers, and top-of-the-line financial consultants to discuss the state of post-trade reconciliations. Post-trade reconciliations: The concept of reconciliations is to compare one set of records with another. Operations teams reconcile post-trade: before that trade is settled and afterwards to confirm that no mistakes (also known
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)
9 Great Things about FTF 2.0
Welcome to the new and improved FTF web site! We are excited to finally show everyone what’s been going on behind the scenes here for the past 9 months. Aside from a fresh, updated look, here is a rundown of some of the other improvements: News – News is now broken down into more specific
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What Does a New FTF Website Mean for Our Readers and Clients?
Maureen Lowe, Founder and President of FTF, discusses what the new, upcoming website means for our readers and clients. The new site is scheduled to go live Q3 ’15.
Wall Street
How Should the NY State Government Spend its $5 Billion Surplus from Wall Street Fines?
We have the results to our most recent Finger on the Pulse poll. Our FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo, recently posted a Minding the Gap column Can Good Come from the Sins of Wall Street?, where he discussed the fines imposed upon Wall Street and insurance firms for their sins during the Great Recession. Due to these
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FTF News Video: How to Build a Robust Op Risk System
CIT’s head of Op Risk discusses novel ways to improve surveillance and launch initiatives with FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo at the recent OpRisk New York 2014 conference in November. Prasad Kodali, head of operational risk at CIT, is leading a program to integrate the processing of operational loss data into his Op Risk program.
Compliance
Can Good Come from the Sins of Wall Street?
January 20, 2015 by Eugene Grygo (Contribution from Minding the Gap, a blog by FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo.) Thanks to the fines imposed upon Wall Street and insurance firms for their sins during the Great Recession, the New York State government has a $5.1 billion surplus for fiscal year 2016. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
