Relevant speeches, panel discussions, parties and informal gabfests will be in abundance at SIFMA’s annual Financial Services Technology Leaders Forum this week at the Hilton New York complex at 1335 Sixth Ave. between West 52nd and West 53rd Streets. I have spotlighted some of the discussions that are likely to be helpful to FTF News readers. The conference segments we’ll be keeping an eye on are:
- Tuesday, June 14, 8:20 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Mercury Ballroom, 3rd floor: The general session will feature Richard J. Daly, CEO, Broadridge Financial Solutions, who will detail Broadridge’s transition from a niche proxy processor to a provider of solutions for trade settlement, data management and communications. Following Daly, Donald F. Donahue, president and CEO of The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., will focus on infrastructure role of cloud computing, particularly on managing risk and regulatory demands.
- Tuesday, 11 am to Noon in the Rendezvous Trianon Foyer, 3rd floor: This general session focuses on the legal entity identifier (LEI) standard and its impact on reporting requirements, data standards for legal entities and instrument identifiers, and systemic risk. The Dodd-Frank-inspired Office of Financial Research (OFR) push will spur major changes for trading infrastructures. A breakout session, also at 11 am but in the Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor will focus on how systems such as the IBM Watson could take analytics to a new level of power and sophistication beyond traditional data warehousing and data mining. The discussion will feature Dr. David Ferrucci, the lead researcher and principal investigator for the Watson/Jeopardy! Project at IBM.
- Wednesday, June 15, 9:15 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor: This panel discussion will delve into the technology impacts of swap execution facilities (SEFs), clearing and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
- Wednesday, 10:40 a.m.—11:15 a.m. Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor: SIFMA will feature heavy hitter Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money and founder and markets commentator for TheStreet, Inc. Cramer will take on how social media will help securities firms and their clients.
To switch gears a little, this is also a special week for Financial Technologies Forum (FTF).
With apologies to the great singer/songwriter Pink, I would like to borrow her song and ask that during SIFMA week you “Raise Your Glass” to FTF president Maureen Lowe and her loyal staff of Caitlin Collins, Sarah Hathaway and Karen Mack as they celebrate their fifth year of FTF. As you may know, they recently chronicled their ascent to power in a Bull Run column. (By the way, The Bull Run, rumor has it, is the new name of a martini created to honor FTF; I will try it and report back to you.) As the editor of FTF News, I am a recent addition as is founding publisher Adrian Goulbourn; we can only bask in the afterglow of their success. I can say that since the February launch, FTF News has been an exhilarating ride that has really only just begun.
We are marking the fifth year of FTF with a special magazine, available online and in print this week, that gathers together some of our best material from FTF News. Click here to download it: 5th Anniversary Special Edition
We hope you like the special issue and we invite your feedback.
And, here’s to FTF’s next five years—who knows how far we can go?
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