One of the legacies of 2012—a tumultuous year by anyone’s standards—is that financial product innovation has been put on the shelf by the constant flow of new regulations (with more to come) and a weak recovery that has squeezed profit margins. Most firms have been quickly shifting their energies and budgets to compliance. In fact, as… 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 >>
A Bit of Shameless Self-Promotion
Please indulge me for a moment as I feel like a proud parent. We are about to debut the second print edition of FTF News at the SIFMA Tech Leaders Forum and Expo 2012, June 19-21, in New York. We have been working very hard on this edition, which will be available throughout the summer,… Read More >>
Tech Spotlight: The Linux Movement
The Linux operating system has uprooted many IT providers and competing proprietary systems as the open source software changed the landscape for trading firms over the past decade. The buy side has been tenuous in its embrace of Linux but the Great Recession caused firms to value the bottom-line benefits of a movement that shows… Read More >>
Q&A: Are You Ready for Hedge Fund Registration?
Hedge funds with assets under management (AUM) of $150 million or more have to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by March 30 because of a key regulatory reform stemming from the Great Recession. In a Q&A duet of sorts, FTF News has asked two industry veterans—Carol Beckett (CB) from Wolters Kluwer… Read More >>
A Gathering Storm at Tax Time
The current tax season is the first time that cost basis reporting (CBR) has become a new reality for trading firms and investors. The issue will hit home as 1099 tax forms arrive and investors start to drill down on the details. While firms may want to duck disgruntled investors, they cannot ignore a gathering… Read More >>
