The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), an industry group for securities exchanges and central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs), has published a briefing paper that focuses on human rights protections and spotlights the need for definitions of “responsible business” and human rights protections — key social aspects of ESG investing. The paper points out that “while… Read More >>
Smarsh Acquires Entreda to Bolster Cybersecurity Support
Electronic communications archiving vendor Smarsh will be able to bolster its cybersecurity risk and compliance offerings to broker-dealers, registered investment advisors (RIAs) and banks via its acquisition of Entreda, maker of a platform that unifies these services. Smarsh offers archiving and compliance support for email, social media, text messaging, instant messaging, websites, and voice. Through… 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 >>
Smarsh Appoints a CFO
Portland, Ore.-headquartered Smarsh, a provider of hosted archiving solutions for e-mail, social media compliance and e-discovery, reports that Allen Muhich has been named chief financial officer (CFO). A 20-plus-year financial-industry veteran, Muhich most recently was CFO at Radisys, where he “drove significant integration activities while maintaining a strong focus on financial business partnering, organizational effectiveness… Read More >>
Hearsay Social Targets Advisers with Platform
Social media compliance vendor Hearsay Social has rolled out a comprehensive social media platform for financial advisers and insurance agents, dubbed “Predictive Social Suite,” officials say. The platform aims to “enable these relationship managers to identify multi-channel client buying signals and share the right information at the right time, increasing the quality and quantity of… 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 >>
Financial Technologies Forum to Ring NASDAQ Bell
Subscribers to FTF News and attendees of FTF’s events already know the company has its finger on the pulse of the post-trade processing realm of securities trading. But tomorrow morning the founder and CEO of FTF will literally take the markets by the hand as Maureen Lowe rings the NASDAQ opening bell. On Thursday, Sept…. Read More >>
A Compliance Speed Bump in an Era of ‘Social Selling’
LinkedIn, a social media site for business interactions, is hoping to take “social selling” to the next level via an upgrade of Sales Navigator to a software-as-a-service (SasS), enterprise-wide offering. Anticipating demand for Sales Navigator, social media compliance provider Hearsay Social is developing capabilities to help its financial services clients use the sales tool and… Read More >>
