FTF News is happy to announce a big step for us and we hope a major boost to what we are providing to you — we will be the exclusive media partner for ISITC throughout 2019. As you know, the ISITC industry trade group has made a major commitment to foster standards and best practices… Read More >>
FTF Focus Spotlights the 2016 FTF Awards Winners
For the sixth year in a row, Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) sponsored the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition to help securities industry professionals shine the spotlight on the outstanding companies, individuals and industry groups that have achieved excellence in post-trade operations. The key winners for 2016 are featured in the special Awards Issue… Read More >>
Have a Great Thanksgiving and Enjoy Our SMAC Chats
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) and its news division FTF News will be closed Thursday and Friday, so that we can take a short break over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We will be returning with hot news for the Monday morning after Thanksgiving. But, in the meantime, we will be offering extremely useful content for the… Read More >>
Reporter’s Notebook: Ringing the Opening Bell for Nasdaq
As you might have seen in our announcements earlier this week, the Nasdaq invited FTF to ring the opening bell yesterday as we kicked off our annual FTF SMAC NY event focusing on social media and compliance in financial services. When the call came on Tuesday morning, it was answered by our company prankster, Kenson… Read More >>
Celebrating FinTech Innovation
Barring the unforeseen, our magazine supplement detailing winners of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2014 will be online soon. We’re featuring profiles of the fintech providers in attendance for the gala presentation and insights from the individuals recognized for their major contributions. To complete the package, we have photos from a perfect cruise… Read More >>
OTC Overhauls Hit Home
Shortly after CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton declared at the 7th Annual OTC Derivatives Operations & Processing Conference last week that the Dodd-Frank reforms will deliver transparency, it became clear during a subsequent discussion that if firms haven’t done so, they need to get their IT architectures in place now to stay on top of the… Read More >>
FTF Panel Reveals the New Recs Manager
Reconciliation managers have earned “a seat at the table” in governance and are making themselves more strategic to the success of the financial services firms they serve, according to industry participants in a panel discussion sponsored by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF). The panel, “What is a Reconciliation Manager?” was part of the Seventh Annual Reconciliations… Read More >>
Making Strides to Improve Corporate Actions Services
Service providers that notify clients of corporate actions have to be change agents if they want customers to replace fax machines and manual processes with XML-based standards, web-based applications, SWIFT services and mobile devices, according to a panel discussion at the Sixth Annual Corporate Actions Processing Conference, presented last week by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)…. Read More >>
Help Kids in Need Get School Supplies
For the third year in a row, FTF News will be participating in the Operation Backpack Campaign, an effort to donate school supplies to students in homeless and domestic violence shelters around New York City.This year, we would like to expand our efforts and have you consider helping out with this truly worthwhile cause. Last… Read More >>
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… Read More >>
