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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The Magic List
“The Holy Grail” is what some people feel they have found when they land a spot in a brokerage company’s mutual fund advisory program, according to the Wall Street Journal. Achieving a spot on such a list for a new or small mutual fund is not an easy task. But, if they can accomplish it,
Financial Technology
Euro Crisis: To prepare or hope it resolves itself?
Guest Contributor: Subbiah Subramanian, Head of Instrument Engineering, Eagle Investment Systems After weeks of suspense, Greece reached an agreement with the creditors to restructure its debt. Some groups within the global financial market such as the ISDA called it a default, as this restructuring resulted in financial losses for creditors. This triggered a credit event
Back-Office
The Mandatory LEI – Countdown to Implementation
FTF will be hosting a complimentary webinar on March 28, 2012 at 11a.m. EDT on the upcoming LEI being mandated by Dodd-Frank…. The financial services industry has been looking to push for the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for some time. There has been resistance due to the inability to make a strong business case
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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
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
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Paid Journalist Internship Opportunity at FTF News
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Guest Blog
Hedge Fund Trends in 2012
Guest Contributor: Chris Grandi, Founding Principal, Abacus Group We are two months into 2012, and already our expectations, based on what we experienced in the prior calendar year, are being exceeded. Although this may have been a low bar to overcome, as returns were in large negative across the alternative asset class in 2011, 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
