Wall Street bonuses may have fallen 8% in 2010 according to a survey conducted by the Office of the New York State Comptroller, but it’s no reflection on whether or not Wall Street plans to buy this year. There has been a good indication of growth in the financial technology space in Q1 of this
Conference and Event Planning
Aite Group Hires FTF to Manage Chicago Trading Event
Financial Technologies Forum is pleased to announce that we have been selected by Aite Group to manage, produce and organize their Chicago event on May 10th at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park. Among some of our responsibilities, FTF will help Aite with event logistics, lead generation, sponsorship sales, management of the overall event, venue logistics
Compliance
What Will it Take to Stay Compliant in 2011?
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance just completed its 2nd annual ‘Cost of Compliance’ survey for 2011. The verdict: 71% of the firms surveyed predict it will cost them a great deal in money, resources and time (but really time is money!) in order to be compliant with regulators this upcoming year. This survey not
Back-Office
The CIO – Your Translator for 2011
Have you ever had to call a tech-support line, whether it was to sort out a smart-phone issue or because your company web site just crashed? If yes, then I’m sure you can relate to the frustration this call can induce. You try to explain your problem in your best tech-savvy way i.e. “When I
Fun Friday
Using your Wall Street Savvy this Sunday
This Sunday is arguably the biggest sports day of the year, “Big-Game Sunday”. We thought we would take this opportunity to let all of you Wall Street natives use your skill set of calculating the odds and hedging against risk to predict the outcome of this great game (for free of course!). This Sunday in
Buy-Side
What is a Hedge Fund Hotel?
I was reading an article the other day on eFinancial News about hedge fund hotels and, while I’ve heard of these, I never fully understood what they were and how they worked. Turns out, a hedge fund hotel is simply just that – a hotel that offers high-end office space where traders can go to
Fun Friday
The Award for Best Supporting Actor Goes To – Wall Street
For those of you working near Wall Street, or anywhere in the North East for that matter, you know that the weather has been less than cooperative lately. This relentless winter weather has caused for many people to be snowed in lately. As for those who are able to make it out of the house,
Operational Risk
Inside an Investor’s Portfolio: How Much Do They Know?
Risk management has become extremely important in the past year or two. The risk management teams at many firms have begun to reassess their roles and the way they manage risk in order to prevent past mistakes from being repeated. However, shouldn’t others also know and understand the impact that risk has on a portfolio?
Fun Friday
Know Where You Work – Wall Street Edition
We thought it might be fun to explore some areas of this great city we work in – New York. So we thought we could investigate a few neighborhoods around the city and fill you in on some things you might be missing right outside your office door! To begin we are tackling Wall Street.
Back-Office
How Much is Too Much? – Measuring Your Firm’s Risk Appetite
The Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) has recently published a report that assesses the progress financial institutions have made in developing and building infrastructures to measure their risk appetite. This report is a follow up to their 2008 report which identified key weaknesses in many risk management practices. The risk team at any financial institution is
