This Sunday is arguably the biggest sports day of the year, “Big-Game Sunday”. We thought we would take this opportunity to let all of you Wall Street natives use your skill set of calculating the odds and hedging against risk to predict the outcome of this great game (for free of course!). This Sunday in
Fun Friday
The Award for Best Supporting Actor Goes To – Wall Street
For those of you working near Wall Street, or anywhere in the North East for that matter, you know that the weather has been less than cooperative lately. This relentless winter weather has caused for many people to be snowed in lately. As for those who are able to make it out of the house,
Fun Friday
Food Truck Friday with FTF
Earlier this week, the FTF gang decided that we needed a few moments away from our desks to reboot and recharge. We could think of no better way to do this then grabbing an afternoon snack from one of the best food trucks that roams Manhattan: The Waffle Truck. Waffle Truck 001 resized 600For those
Fun Friday
Know Where You Work – Wall Street Edition
We thought it might be fun to explore some areas of this great city we work in – New York. So we thought we could investigate a few neighborhoods around the city and fill you in on some things you might be missing right outside your office door! To begin we are tackling Wall Street.
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)
Happy New Year from FTF
The team here at FTF would like to wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year! FTF has been taking a short blogging break for the holidays, but not to worry, we’ll be back on January 3, 2011. We’ll see you in the New Year!
Conference and Event Planning
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
Fun Friday
Facebook is Taking Over the World
Here are some facts about Facebook: * More than 500 million active users * 50% of the active users log on to Facebook in any given day * People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook * Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events * About 70% of Facebook
Conference and Event Planning
Meet Some of the Staff of FTF
For the past four and half years, the women of FTF have worked hard to provide thought leadership on Wall Street through our conferences, breakfast briefings, webinars, proprietary events and training seminars. Additionally, since you’ve been reading our blog posts for the past four months, we thought we were long overdue for a formal introduction
Financial Crime
Too Big To Fail is Back…
Earlier this week as I walked down Wall Street on my way to one of our securities industry training courses, I spotted a movie being filmed. While this is a normal occurrence in New York City, I’m always curious as to what’s being filmed, so I decided to take a quick detour to get a
Conference and Event Planning
What Makes a Great Speaker Great?
At the end of each conference that Financial Technologies Forum hosts, we collect evaluations that rate how well each of our speakers did throughout the day on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being excelleing and 1 being poor, as well as how the attendees felt about the conference content. Following our 5th Annual OTC
