In this day and age, it is rare to see someone without their blackberry or iphone attached to their hand as an additional appendage. Our days are spent corresponding with people electronically and we spend less time interacting in person. I often find myself over compensating for the lack of emotional tone in my emails
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Memorial Day Weekend
We here at FTF hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend! And as you celebrate the “unofficial” start of summer we also hope you remember the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces and honor them as well. If you have a moment, check out this
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Onshore Outsourcing
Guest Contributor: Anil Budha, Managing Principal, GBP Financial Solutions A growing number of U.S. companies are saying goodbye to Bangalore, India and hello to America’s boondocks. Some IT organizations solicit domestic partners to supplement their offshore outsourcing projects, while others look to domestic providers to clean up messes created by offshore vendors or to avoid
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The Silver Butterfly Case – Straddles 101: Why tax straddles are important to a tax-aware portfolio strategy
Guest Contributor: George Michaels, G2 FinTech With tax season right around the corner, we wanted to shed some light on the historical creation of straddles and why they are important to a tax-aware portfolio strategy. A straddle is a set of investment transactions that simultaneously take two offsetting positions on the same underlying security; one of
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Bridging the Gap within Hedge Fund Operations
In the coming months, Hedge Funds are going to be implementing operational changes within their firms in order to remain compliant with Dodd-Frank and other regulatory mandates. Firms will also need to explore new technology solutions in order to make the most efficient improvements to their operations. FTF News and Omgeo are conducting this survey
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Join the FTF News LinkedIn Group
You follow us on Twitter and you follow our blog, now we invite you to join the latest FTF social media endeavor, the FTF News LinkedIn Group. This group consists of discussions around the latest issues and trends affecting securities operations and technology. Members include FTF News subscribers, FTF clients and attendees of FTF events
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WHAT IF THE RISK DEPARTMENT REALLY LOST AN HOUR?
Guest Contributor: Marcus Cree, Vice President, Risk Solutions, SunGard’s Capital Markets Business With spring in the air, the U.S. clocks have gone forward, stealing an hour from us. Obviously it is an illusory lost hour, but it does provoke an interesting thought experiment: if you were to actually lose an hour of the working day, where
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A Shifting Focus for OTC Derivatives
Guest Contributor: Tony Scianna, deputy head of strategy, SunGard’s capital markets business In recent years, we have seen many developments in getting the industry to light speed in the front office, but now the focus appears to be shifting to real-time data management and post-trade processing applications, especially in the OTC derivatives space. As the
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Time is Money and Do You Have the Money to Spend the Time?
As some of you might have picked up from my previous blogs, I am torn when it comes to the value of social media due to the investment in time it requires. And, in the fast-paced Wall Street world we all know and love, time is money. Don’t get me wrong, I see its benefits
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Want to Win a Kinect for Xbox 360? Take Our Quick Survey and You Could Win One!
Financial Technologies Forum is holding its Reference Data Seminar on April 25, 2012, but we need your help to make it the best seminar it can be. In preparation for this event, we are conducting a short, five-minute survey for a chance to win a Kinect for Xbox 360! The survey of its readership will
