We recently returned from a trip to Chicago where we held our 3rd Annual Chicago OTC and Exchange Traded Derivatives Ops conference and assisted Aite Group with a trading event; my review of Chicago, Five Stars. Not only is Chicago a great City with impressive architecture and restaurants but its people are some of the
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FTF Takes on Chi-Town
Next week, the FTF team will be leaving New York City for a few days to take on another famous city… Chicago. FTF has been coordinating a few events and training courses that will be taking place in Chicago throughout the next week. Our busy schedule is as follows: Monday, May 9th: – 3rd Annual
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Top Theme – Registering with the SEC – A Wrap-Up from the 4th Annual Hedge Fund Ops and Tech Conference
Much was discussed at this year’s 4th Annual Hedge Fund Ops & Tech conference in NYC! Our chairperson for the day, Dan Strachman, Author & Strategist from HedgeAnswers, got the morning started off with his thoughts on the current state of the industry. From there many conversations quickly turned to SEC registration requirements. One of
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The Cloud – A New Era of Innovation, Productivity and Service
The Cloud – a new era of innovation, productivity and service. That’s what we all took away from Financial Technologies Forum’s Cloud Computing on Wall Street Breakfast Briefing this past Tuesday in NYC. Thanks goes out to all the attendees for making this event so great and for participating in the open forum discussions around
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Performance Measurement Wrap-Up
For all those who attended and participated in FTF’s 4th Annual Performance Measurement Conference yesterday in NYC, we would like to thank you for making it such a great and informative event yet again! Special thanks go out to all the knowledgeable speakers and the event sponsors who included, SS&C Technologies, BI-SAM, DST Global Solutions
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4th Annual Hedge Fund Operations & Technology
With just three weeks left until our 4th Annual Hedge Fund Operations & Technology Conference in New York City, preparations here at FTF are in full force. This has always been one of our largest annual conferences and this year is no different. With over 100 attendees already registered for the event, it is shaping
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A Look Into the 5th Annual OpRisk Conference
For all of those who attended yesterday’s 5th Annual OpRisk Conference we would like to thank you for making it such a great event! Also, we would like to send a special thank you to all the knowledgeable speakers and the event sponsors, SunGard and Infogix. So we thought we would give you all a
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Aite Group Hires FTF to Manage Chicago Trading Event
Financial Technologies Forum is pleased to announce that we have been selected by Aite Group to manage, produce and organize their Chicago event on May 10th at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park. Among some of our responsibilities, FTF will help Aite with event logistics, lead generation, sponsorship sales, management of the overall event, venue logistics
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Financial Technologies Forum: The Year Ahead
Well, I have to admit, as much as I love the Holidays and our company-wide break between 2011Christmas and New Year’s (I know, aren’t I a good boss?), it’s good to be back at work and back to a routine. There are lots of exciting things in store for FTF this year and the team
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Top 5 Conference Disasters
In the event planning industry, you get used to putting fires out. But the true test of an event planner is whether you can put the fire out without people knowing a situation arose at all! Thanks to Murphy’s Law, it’s pretty much a given that something you don’t expect to happen, is going to
