Guest Contributor: Graeme Condie, Data Management & Analytics Solutions Management, DST Global Solutions Asset Managers face numerous business challenges in today’s environment of increased competitiveness, desire for greater transparency and need for regulatory vigilance. One of the areas of the business most impacted by all of this is the Middle Office – indeed,
Cloud
Kiwis Still Unsure of the Cloud
Cloud computing is a topic that we’ve covered a number of times on The Bull Run (see our dedicated Cloud category) and at our annual Cloud Computing Breakfast Briefings, but when my New Zealand-bred husband showed me a recent article from one of his favorite web sites, www.Stuff.co.nz, about how far behind New Zealand is
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)
Just Another Food Truck Friday!!
All you blog readers know FTF loves a good food truck trip; our latest endeavor was to the GO Burger Truck! Not only does Go Burger have a truck in NYC, but they have restaurant locations in New York and Los Angeles! We had to check it out. Upon arriving at the truck we were
Corporate Actions
Corporate Actions: The Way Forward
Guest Contributor: Chris Kotsifas, Founder of STP Consulting Solutions, LLC In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, there’s a renewed emphasis in operational transparency and risk reduction. This has led many to look into their organizations and revisit problematic areas namely corporate actions processing and reference data which have typically been pushed aside for
Corporate Actions
LEI’s: Worth the Work?
According to Wikipedia, a Legal Entity Identification (LEI) is defined as: A universal standard for identifying all parties to financial contracts. It is a new standard to be established by the U.S. Treasury – Office of Financial Research. It is a key element in the broader effort to understand and monitor systemic risk. Its creation
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)
Financial Services Blog Round-Up
Over the past year, we here at FTF have done our best to blog about current issues and new technology that affect the financial services industry. Recently we have been trying to discover others out there in the blogosphere that are blogging about similar topics. Here’s a round-up of a few favorites we’ve come across:
Dodd-Frank
Focusing Only on Dodd-Frank? Then You Might Be Missing Something
Guest Contributor: Mary Todd, Cosgrove Law LLC Because the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 reform bill grabs headlines every day, other regulations are entering the scene almost undetected. Broker-dealers and registered investment advisors may not be fully aware of new upcoming regulations, which could have significant impact their business. The
Compliance
Mobile Technology – Helpful or Hurtful?
Mobile technology is currently a hot topic for the financial services industry. Many industry publications, including our own FTF News, have written special reports (I will link Eugene’s article here) exploring the growing mobile technology space and the new prospects it has created. Companies have been using this new resource to open up the communication
Social Media
Happy Social Media Day!
In honor of Social Media Day, we thought we would show you this video, which explains just how big social media has gotten… http://video.foxnews.com/v/1031470320001/celebrating-social-media-day/ (how convenient that on Social Media Day I cannot get embedding codes to work!)
Guest Blog
Too close to call?
Guest Contributor: Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa This week is supposed to be crunch time in Canada as investors in the TMX Group vote either to throw their lot in with the London Stock Exchange or retrench within their national borders and develop as the Maple Group. An article in the Financial Times today questioned whether either deal
