In preparation for the week leading up to Christmas, FTF has decided to take a more holiday approach to our blogs this week. I am kicking off the festivities with a Christmas carol that we might hear being sung on Wall Street this year. Hope you enjoy and be sure to sing out loud to
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
Financial Technology
Technology Update: Apple iPads to The Rescue
Looking for any last minute holiday gifts for your sales team this year? Well how about an Apple iPad? I came across an article this morning on Wall Street & Technology’s website detailing how Anthony Mayo, CTO at Dreyfus, a BNY Mellon Asset Management company, initiated a roll out of iPads to his sales and
Back-Office
Performance Fees – Good or Bad? Part I
Guest Contributor: Carl Bacon, Chairman, StatPro After a brief lull during the credit crisis, performance (or incentive) fees are again becoming increasingly high profile. An excellent time therefore to pose two questions: Are they a good thing? And if used, how should they be structured? Supporters of performance fees would suggest that they are desirable
Back-Office
2011 – Wanted: Growth, Innovation & Profit – Needed: Technology
SimCorp recently conducted a survey asking asset managers what they feel the year 2011 will bring about for them and their businesses. The survey reported that many asset managers expect to see a large increase in revenue and assets under management in the next year. This provides a great vote of confidence for the forthcoming
Uncategorized
Financial Technology Acquisitions: A Year in Review
The financial for sale sign 2technology sector has not been without its fair share of acquisitions in 2010. Some of the bigger and more talked about acquisitions this year include Sybase’s purchase of Aleri, Broadridge’s acquisition of City Networks, MSCI’s acquisition of RiskMetrics and the recent acquisition of Sophis by Misys. Thomson Reuters went on
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
Operational Risk
Reputational Risk: Don’t Pull a Tiger Woods
In the past year, it has become blaringly obvious how important a company’s reputation is to their bottom line. With situations like the BP oil spill, Toyota’s incident with faulty brakes and the whole Tiger Woods scandal, we have seen why companies need plans in place to protect their reputations in the wake of a
Guest Blog
Forget Austerity: The Party is Back On
Guest Contributor: Dan Simon, Managing Director, US Operations, Cognito ‘Tis, once again, the season to be jolly. For the past couple of years it has been very popular to scale back parties or cancel them altogether. This year they are back with a vengeance. This week alone, Cognito is hosting three holiday parties in different
Dodd-Frank
Time to give the economy a boost – How would you do it?
Yesterday, I read an article, “So How Would You Kick Start the Economy?” where a number of people from all different walks of life, from all around the country, were asked how they would fix the current economic status of the United States if they were in charge. To my surprise, there was a variety
