We are pleased to have Sarah Green, Senior Director in the Enforcement Division at FINRA sitting on a panel at our upcoming 2nd Annual Financial Crime & AML Compliance breakfast briefing on July 18th. Sarah specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) and other Bank Secrecy Act issues and has responsibility for consulting with both examination and
Conference and Event Planning
Pass on Sitting
We’re always warned on long flights to stand up and stretch our legs but no one ever thinks about sitting at work or in a conference all day in the same frame. As a woman of the 21st century, I’ve been warned of the “Secretary’s Rear” of the 60s. In the words of Michelle Obama,
Conference and Event Planning
Face-to-Face Takes on New Meaning
I was intrigued to read a piece in Information Week this past January on desktop video conferencing and a recent rise in its usage. Basically, the article states the appeal for video conferencing lies with “improving employee and customer collaboration while reducing travel costs”. Another reason given was that video can be more useful than
Cloud
How to Launch a Hedge Fund … Did You Miss Out?
I am pleased to report that we received a ton of great feedback from our most recent How to Launch a Hedge Fund seminar in New York last week! Subjects discussed ranged from the up-front decisions and vendors needed to start a fund to the major legal issues a start-up would face. Sessions also got
Back-Office
Conference Wrap Up – 6th Annual OTC Derivatives Ops & Processing
Well, it’s a wrap on our 6th Annual OTC Derivatives Operations & Processing conference, which was held last week in New York City. But in case you weren’t able to make it this year, here are a few highlights from the event. So to start, we kicked the day off with a look into 2012
Conference and Event Planning
Beyond the FTF You Know
One of the many aspects of my job here at FTF that I really enjoy involves executing private events for our clients. This could be anything from a breakfast briefing to a cocktail reception to a three-day client appreciation event. It pretty much runs the gamut of events we could pull off for you, which
Conference and Event Planning
Boston Here We Come
Financial Technologies Forum not only offers quality conferences each year, but we also offer a variety of instructional training courses for securities industry professionals. Originally, these courses only took place at our home base in the Wall Street district of New York City. Since then, however, we have expanded to the cities of Chicago, San
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Fall Classes in Session
Well, folks, it appears summer is officially over. With that comes the start of a new training season. We here at FTF will miss the warm summer days but are looking forward to once again bringing knowledge and insight to Wall Street and beyond. So whether you want to travel to New York City, Boston,
Compliance
FTF Heads to Boston – Securities Ops Seminar Wrap-Up
In case you weren’t following our live updates on twitter last week (#FTFSecOps), I thought I would bring you up to speed on the issues discussed at our Securities Operations Seminar in Boston last week. The day got kicked off with a timely discussion on the impact of Dodd-Frank and other regulatory initiatives for securities
Conference and Event Planning
Food Truck Friday!
As our blogger fans know, we here at FTF love a good food truck. So we recently decided to try out the new Gorilla Cheese Truck, which specializes in making grilled cheese sandwiches. You’re probably thinking what’s so special about a grilled cheese sandwich and how can a food truck base its entire menu off
