“>Download Whitepaper Now Complimentary Whitepaper Reconciliation Best Practice What Asset Management Operations Really Need to Know. Featuring expert insights on the six key functional areas critical to reconciliation. By Duncan Wheatley, Managing Director of Watson Wheatley Financial Systems. The reconciliation system occupies a unique and privileged position in the asset manager’s middle and back office
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Private Equity Outsourcing – The Next Frontier
Guest Contributor: Jane Conway, Executive Vice President for Alpha FMC, US Outsourcing particular business functions has been an established and growing feature of the more traditional asset manager landscape. Private Equity (PE) asset managers have to date largely shunned this trend – and with good reason. This is now set to change. The case for outsourcing is
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The Mandatory LEI – Countdown to Implementation
FTF will be hosting a complimentary webinar on March 28, 2012 at 11a.m. EDT on the upcoming LEI being mandated by Dodd-Frank…. The financial services industry has been looking to push for the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for some time. There has been resistance due to the inability to make a strong business case
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Conference Wrap Up – 6th Annual OTC Derivatives Ops & Processing
Well, it’s a wrap on our 6th Annual OTC Derivatives Operations & Processing conference, which was held last week in New York City. But in case you weren’t able to make it this year, here are a few highlights from the event. So to start, we kicked the day off with a look into 2012
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FTF’s Latest Special Report: Mobile Technology
If you are attending SIBOS this week, or at least reading some of the news coming out of SIBOS, then you’ve probably seen that the topic of mobile technology is a hot issue this year. In anticipation of this being a big conversation piece at the conference we decided to prepare and get two different viewpoints
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Fall Classes in Session
Well, folks, it appears summer is officially over. With that comes the start of a new training season. We here at FTF will miss the warm summer days but are looking forward to once again bringing knowledge and insight to Wall Street and beyond. So whether you want to travel to New York City, Boston,
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Buy-Side’s Laying Low on Derivatives Reform… For Now
I just saw an interesting video on Tabb Forum about where the buy-side lies regarding derivatives reform. Kevin McPartland from Tabb Group and Chad Wekelo from Actualize Consulting discuss this issue and comment that with the uncertainty surrounding Dodd-Frank and derivatives reform, not much is being done currently, outside of initial outreach, to industry vendors
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All Roads Lead to the Smart Router
Guest Contributor: Renée Colyer, CEO, Forefactor As if it wasn’t complicated enough before – now, because of the OPR (Order Protection Rule) in Canada, there are two types of smart order routers (venue and broker offered) that the buyside needs to understand. On top of that, the use of algorithms has prompted much confusion about
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Fragmentation v Consolidation
Guest Contributor: Steve Grob, Fidessa Seems like equity and other capital marketplaces are going through the ying and yang of fragmentation and consolidation. Just as we hear about another merger, we read about another new venue going live or more regulation encouraging competition. This provides market participants with a problem, especially in terms of understanding
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Exploring Public & Private Clouds
(Guest Contributor: Brian McCallion, global performance architect at AIG.) Cloud computing has essentially been private from the beginning. Google, for one, demonstrates that the world’s most successful search engine runs not on an IBM Power, Sun Enterprise, or other massively powerful machine engineered for business by the go-to vendors for computer solutions. More in keeping