(Editor’s note: This is another installment in an ongoing series about how digital toys and tools can help your life beyond the securities trading realm. In this case, we explore a smart bed with sleep-monitoring equipment. Given our current state of affairs, proper rest has become a necessity.) A bedmaker of renown, Beautyrest wants to… Read More >>
Fiserv’s Unified Wealth Platform Embraces the Robot
(Editor’s note: A provider of an array of financial technology solutions, Fiserv is partnering with Marstone, a New York-based digital advisory firm, to provide the Powered by Marstone suite of digital investment advice solutions. The suite will be offered via Fiserv’s Wealth Management Network. FTF News was lucky to get time with Cheryl Nash, president… Read More >>
Firms Could See Stormy Weather in 2017
(In this second installment of predictions [click here to read the first installment and here for the third installment], FTF News is reviewing the predictions made about the investment outlook for 2017 and the cloud and digital technologies that may help firms cope with what will likely be an interesting year. The final story in… Read More >>
Will Investment Banking Join the Digital Age?
A new report by Greyspark Consultancy, “Digital Transformation of Investment Banking,” shows that investment banks can learn a few lessons from the automotive and aircraft industries in the way they tackle regulation, competition and fickle customers. This new operating model will not only enable them to comply with new rules but become leaner and more… Read More >>
Ops Gets on the Blockchain Revolution Bus
Bitcoin, a so-called crypto-currency, may fade before anyone really understands what it was or how it could actually have prevailed in financial services. However, out of Bitcoin’s ashes has risen the humbly named Blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology that has been propping up Bitcoin has come to the attention of major industry players. This… Read More >>
