Guest Blogger: Kevin Cullen, Communications & Marketing Director at Information Mosaic Since the financial downturn, getting budget for any project seems harder than ever. With the renewed emphasis on regulation, risk mitigation, and data standardization, the focus may have turned away from front-office and trading to the middle-office and post-trade areas. In the case of
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)
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
Back-Office
Corporate Actions in the Cloud, ISO 20022 and Data Barriers, Oh My
It’s official. The preliminary agenda for the FTF 6th Annual Corporate Actions Processing Conference is up, live and ready for your viewing pleasure. This year, we will be focusing on how corporate action departments can overcome real-time reporting requirements, changes in tax law and ever-tightening IT budgets. Attend our 6th annual Financial Technologies Forum’s Corporate
Guest Blog
The Operational Due Diligence Opportunity for Hedge Funds
Guest Contributor: Jason Scharfman,, Esq., CFE, CRISC, Managing Partner, Corgentum Consulting In the past, many hedge fund managers may have cringed at the mere thought of an investor inquiring about conducting a distinct operational due diligence review. Such reticence represents a missed opportunity. Hedge funds often work hard over many years to develop strong operations and
Guest Blog
The Mantra of Transparency: Unified Data and Systems for the BD
Guest Contributor: David Fetter, CEO of Quadron Data Solutions Another year is drawing to a close, and when reflecting upon 2011, it’s apparent to everyone that it has been a year of ups and downs. What has 2011 brought to the financial services industry – a mantra of transparency to be delivered through regulation and
Conference and Event Planning
Boston Here We Come
Financial Technologies Forum not only offers quality conferences each year, but we also offer a variety of instructional training courses for securities industry professionals. Originally, these courses only took place at our home base in the Wall Street district of New York City. Since then, however, we have expanded to the cities of Chicago, San
Securities Operations
The Question of Security
The Financial Services industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings. It is hard to believe that all financial transactions, from record keeping to reconciliations and trades, were all done by hand at one time. What may be even more amazing is that individuals were actually able to keep track of the massive
Back-Office
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,
Guest Blog
Meeting the Middle Office ‘Data Crunch’
Guest Contributor: Graeme Condie, Data Management & Analytics Solutions Management, DST Global Solutions Asset Managers face numerous business challenges in today’s environment of increased competitiveness, desire for greater transparency and need for regulatory vigilance. One of the areas of the business most impacted by all of this is the Middle Office – indeed,
Compliance
Mobile Technology – Helpful or Hurtful?
Mobile technology is currently a hot topic for the financial services industry. Many industry publications, including our own FTF News, have written special reports (I will link Eugene’s article here) exploring the growing mobile technology space and the new prospects it has created. Companies have been using this new resource to open up the communication
