For the fifth year in a row, the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2015 honors the outstanding individuals and the leaders among financial technology product and service providers working to advance post-trade operations. We have chronicled this year’s winners in the special Awards Issue of FTF Focus magazine. This year’s award winners included technology and… Read More >>
‘Wall Street’s Got the Dough. What Does Washington Need?’
Can a single book change the world? Think back to some of the books you learned about in school: “The Jungle,” “Unsafe at Any Speed,” “Silent Spring.” Books like these stirred things up. They spurred debate and action, legislation and regulation, and even the creation of watchdog government agencies. Their authors were muckrakers. Larry Doyle,… Read More >>
Is the Fed Too Cozy with the Big Banks?
The secret recordings of Carmen Segarra, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner stationed at Goldman Sachs, have caused a quite stir since they were aired last week in a segment on the popular podcast “This American Life.” The tapes not only allege wrongdoings at Goldman, but also instances of the Fed, the firm’s primary supervisor, handling the… Read More >>
Does Wall Street Own Washington?
Larry Doyle, an ex-mortgage-backed securities trader, is saying in his new book that Wall Street owns Washington, big banks must be broken up, and investors are ill served by regulators. Doyle blames it on a conspiracy among Wall Street firms, politicians, and regulators, arguing that the system is broken. Strangely enough, he thinks most people… Read More >>
