Financial Technologies Forum, LLC (FTF) is a leading provider of executive-level conferences and training seminars focused on trends and initiatives in securities trading and operations.
Financial Technologies Forum, LLC (FTF) is a leading provider of executive-level events and training focused on trends and initiatives in securities trading and operations. Our global client base consists of senior level securities professionals from over 30 countries. Our online newsletter offers a global interactive community where professionals can find original editorial content, daily news, in-depth analysis and industry research. Our news content enhances our offering of events and training with timely coverage that reflects our market focus on clearing & settlement, corporate actions processing, risk management, performance measurement, reconciliation & exceptions management, regulation & compliance, derivatives operations, hedge fund operations and enterprise operations.
Financial Technologies Forum, LLC (FTF) is a leading provider of executive-level events and training focused on trends and initiatives in securities trading and operations. Our global client base consists of senior level securities professionals from over 30 countries. Our online newsletter offers a global interactive community where professionals can find original editorial content, daily news, in-depth analysis and industry research. Our news content enhances our offering of events and training with timely coverage that reflects our market focus on clearing & settlement, corporate actions processing, risk management, performance measurement, reconciliation & exceptions management, regulation & compliance, derivatives operations, hedge fund operations and enterprise operations.
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Wall Street Geek & Gadget News via FTFnews: Fun Gadgets: https://bit.ly/3lTVRMb; Facial recognition: http://bit.ly/35768Ph; AI for portfolios: http://bit.ly/3ofUVDG; Custody for Crypto Assets: http://bit.ly/3nv04Ye; and Cloud-based trade surveillance http://bit.ly/332Fk1I
Get a Wall Street regulatory enforcement update: Robinhood Financial: http://bit.ly/386zRd7; BlueCrest: http://bit.ly/3p1e8ZF; ICE Unit Settles Charges: http://bit.ly/3rRqWEc; JPM & OCC:
http://bit.ly/33RN4nO; & Julius Baer & DOJ:
http://bit.ly/2IPHAlS All via www.FTFnews.com
CAT Reporting Lessons: Sell-side firms need error rates approaching perfection when they are engaged in CAT reporting — a key takeaway from the webinar, “Are You Ready for Interfirm CAT Linkage?” http://bit.ly/38bKknQ Coverage via FTFNews.
Despite the pandemic, sell-side firms in 2020 met a very challenging first-round of compliance with the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) trade data surveillance
Our free FinTech news roundup includes the Northern Trust news below & covers Steele’s acquisition of info4c, new hires at RIMES, money flowing into Pico, and an HR exec change at BNP Paribas in the Americas: http://bit.ly/3nv04Ye via FTF News online.
Standard Chartered’s VC Unit Partners with Northern Trust Standard Chartered via SC Ventures and custodian Northern Trust are launching an “institutional
Bluecrest is paying $170M to the SEC to resolve the case: http://bit.ly/3p1e8ZF
BlueCrest Capital Management has settled charges via the SEC that it failed its investors by assigning its best human traders to a proprietary hedge fund while
Electra says its unified API is intended as a single connection to help buy-side firms sidestep the need “to build and manage individual bank & broker APIs": https://bit.ly/3gNXWIz
Electra Information Systems, a maker of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, is launching a unified application programming interface (API) service
Our free FinTech roundup covers DTCC’s purchase of Sapient CMRS, Janus Henderson’s picks for transfer agency services, an update on ISITC’s board & the newly named RBC Clearing & Custody: https://bit.ly/39XnAcy
DTCC to Add Sapient's CMRS to Report Hub Post-trade systems and services vendor DTCC has acquired a platform for compliance management reporting, dubbed the
The tide is turning against enterprise-wide data management systems & big data warehouses, says Andrew Barnett at RIMES via a free FTF Exchange podcast. In fact, Barnett says that firms are trending toward hosted & managed options: https://bit.ly/2Iuvleq
Sanctions expert Max Lerner provides insight into how financial services firms are coping with a flood of U.S. sanctions against China & other countries: Check out our Free FTF Exchange Podcast at https://bit.ly/3qJc62j
WINTER HOLIDAY GADGETS: I have found some interesting gadgets to creatively distract us during the lockdown: Roku updates, including its embrace of HBO Max, special cases for smartphones & a vinyl turntable that works with the Bluetooth standard: https://bit.ly/3lTVRMb
Please check out new, exclusive content via the SecOps Online series: https://ftfsecops.com/event/en/page/home And download an archived great session "Digital Transformation on Steroids:"
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The free FTF News roundup covers: a warning about using USD LIBOR beyond Dec. 31, 2021; JPMorgan Asset Management & 55ip; 2 RFIs for climate change research from Calpers; and a new chairman for Credit Suisse Group: https://bit.ly/2VGAFyj
Authorities: Steer Clear of USD LIBOR Key industry regulators are warning financial services firms not to use U.S. dollar (USD) LIBOR as a reference rate
Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for the 2021 FinTech Innovation Lab New York program. FinTech entrepreneurs work with professionals in banking, insurance & asset management. The collaboration yields disruptive technologies to jumpstart financial services: https://bit.ly/37gCmYK
Grygo is the chief content officer for FTF. While we are mired in Zoom and gloom because of pandemic-induced partial or full lockdowns, it is comforting to
A-List Business Execs in NYC have sent a letter to Trump urging that he move ahead with the transition: “The attention and energy of public and private sector leaders should be entirely focused on uniting our country to fight the coronavirus .." Basically, they are arguing for a reset of national priorities: https://bit.ly/3mpfKvE
Grygo is the chief content officer for FTF. A letter sent to the Trump administration from New York City’s A-List business leaders, including many from top
The DTCC is making its case via a new survey that the mutualized operations model can cut Ops costs by 20% or better for SSI reference data; trade support; prime brokerage fees; settlements; IT expenses; and more https://bit.ly/39nJ1mF
Post-trade systems and services provider DTCC is making its case for the cost-cutting value of mutualized, automated securities operations after surveying nine
Some issues cannot wait such as the existential threat of climate change. NYS DFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell wants banks to take the implications of climate change from crypto-currency mining to dire physical risks, seriously. In a letter transmitted to all New York-regulated financial services organizations, Lacewell outlined “expectations related to addressing climate risks,” which she categorizes as either “physical and transition risks:” https://bit.ly/2Iwt7LI
Linda A. Lacewell “Climate change is happening now, and we have to take steps to manage the financial risks now,” says Linda A. Lacewell, the superintendent
FTF Awards News: https://yhoo.it/3eVoKFN
For the third consecutive year, NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business and the industry leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, was named "Best Financial Crime Prevention Technology" category winner in Financial Technologies Forum / FTF News 2020 Technology Innovation Awards. The fin...
It’s been hard to have a sense of humor this year. So, for Halloween (and beyond), we suggested costumes that mock harsh realities such as: The Lockdown, The Blursday, The Zoom & Gloom Fatigue Mask & the Remote Worker. Keep laughing if you can: https://bit.ly/3ejO6gk
Goldman Sachs is admitting guilt and paying a fine of $2.9 billion for its role in a scandal that saw officials from the firm bribing Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials from 2009 to 2014 to secure ongoing business for the multinational investment bank. Check out our in-depth coverage: https://bit.ly/3mhVag2
Goldman Sachs is admitting guilt and paying a fine of $2.9 billion for its role in a scandal that saw officials from the firm bribing Malaysian and Abu Dhabi
In an FTF Exchange podcast, Corinne Neale at BNY Mellon reveals that cutting-edge IT still fascinates her because of the answers it provides to problems ahead for the industry. Neale won the FinTech Person of the Year award for 2020, a key category the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition: https://bit.ly/2G00bKI
Check out our Free FinTech roundup: Finanstra & CloudMargin partner for collateral management, Allianz turns to SS&C's Sylvan, FactSet buys Truvalue Labs, ACA Aponix launches a cybersecurity offering & TORA links to MTS BondsPro: https://bit.ly/2TplTuD
Finastra’s FusionFabric.cloud Links to CloudMargin Financial services systems vendor Finastra is partnering with CloudMargin, a collateral and margin
HARDWARE & DATA SECURITY: Morgan Stanley will pay a $60M penalty to resolve charges that two of its wealth management units mismanaged the disposal of data center hardware in 2016 & "wide area application services devices” last year: Get the full story: https://bit.ly/31h4lVS
Morgan Stanley will pay a civil monetary penalty of $60 million to resolve charges via the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) that the firm’s
Our free FinTech update covers trading room news at RBC, Citadel Securities’ acquisition, a Broadridge win, and the DTCC launch of a consulting unit: https://bit.ly/3dJDAhZ
‘Aiden’ Yields Solution to Cut VWAP Slippage Securities traders at RBC Capital Markets and scientists who specialize in artificial intelligence (AI) at
FTF News spoke to Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus, about regulatory actions to stop “spoof orders.” Regulators hit JPMorgan with a recent record $920M fine & authorities convicted two former traders at Deutsche Bank for spoofing: https://bit.ly/3k5EszV
Travis Schwab (FTF News reached out to Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus, based in Austin, Texas, to check in with him about regulatory actions to stop false
Check out a FREE video chat via FTF News: Part One with Dave Allen, project manager for NRI America & Larry Zywicki, director for Beta solutions at Refinitiv, about the integration of post-trade systems: NRI’s I-Star/GX software w/Refinitiv’s Beta: https://bit.ly/2H5LINz
Citigroup Inc. has launched “significant remediation projects” to bolster risk management controls in response to the Fed & OCC issuing consent orders to fix many key banking practices in need of repair: https://bit.ly/36KN7E9
Citigroup Inc. has launched “significant remediation projects” to bolster its risk management controls, infrastructure, and governance as a result of two
Many hedge fund managers are concerned about burnout among remote-working staff as firms try to figure out the recovery and return phases of a global pandemic that's getting worse. These are some of the major findings via a report from KPMG & the AIMA: Minding the Gap: https://bit.ly/33Esgk0
Grygo is chief content officer for FTF. Many hedge fund managers expect clarity will come in 2021 for a real recovery from the pandemic-induced downturn, and
Tokyo Stock Exchange trading halt, GLEIF’s new role for banks, news from Krungsri & Murex, Jeff Gooch at Quorsus & Schroders embraces SteelEye: HOT FREE BRIEFS: https://bit.ly/2HSO0jx via FTF News
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FTF & FTF News have chosen Maria Gotsch, president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, as the 2020 recipient of the Editor’s Choice award for her achievements via the FinTech Innovation Lab: Maria provides insights about her journey via a Q&A: https://bit.ly/2GfA8ig
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WalI Street standards group ISITC has named Karla McKenna as the 2020 recipient of the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award for her efforts to help standardize securities trading operations. McKenna received the award during ISITC Week. Full story at FTF News: https://bit.ly/306CaZx Congrats to Karla!
Our free FinTech update covers: Nasdaq & Caspian’s automated AML investigator, Oppenheimer & InvestCloud, Qontigo's ESG hire, and new execs at Copper Technologies: https://bit.ly/2RGMZMZ via FTF News.
Nasdaq Sytem Targets Gap in AML Inquiries Nasdaq just launched a “cloud-deployed” anti-money laundering (AML) system, the Nasdaq Automated Investigator for
Trading Ops teams passed a major test during the pandemic lockdown, says Eric Aldous, managing director, head of futures at RBC Capital Markets in NYC. He took part in a new FTF Exchange podcast: https://bit.ly/3iMNbX1 via FTF News
Jane Fraser will succeed Citi CEO Michael Corbat following his retirement in February 2021. Her appointment was hailed on Wall Street, but not every observer was equally impressed by the fact of a woman at the helm of a big Wall Street bank: https://bit.ly/32HT4PN
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[Whitepaper Download] Times of crisis can test the processes of the best financial firms, exposing inefficiencies and weaknesses. It's also a great time to reevaluate systems and processes and establish improvements going forward. If you haven't done so already, download this whitepaper to find out how your firm can overcome data and multi-asset class challenges to build resilience in the new world we live in, lessons learned from the pandemic, and what your firm needs to do going forward. Click here to download: https://lnkd.in/djYdruc #FTFNews #posttrade #capitalmarkets #ftfdigital #fintechnews #securitiesoperations #SimCorp #STP #datamanagement #enterpriseriskmanagement #operationalrisk #consolidation
FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo, sits down with Haytham Kaddoura, CEO of SmartStream Technologies Group to discuss how banks and other financial services firms are more willing to test new technologies than in years past, and how this development is giving him new hope. https://www.ftfnews.com/video/hot-it-trends-give-smartstreams-ceo-new-hope
Let’s talk about Collateral, margining and derivatives! Oh my! It’s FTF’s CMD Ops 2017 conference today! #FTFCMDops
FTF News editor, Eugene Grygo sat down with Christopher Bowen, CCO at New Amsterdam Partners, at FTF's recent Performance Measurement Americas 2017 conference in NYC to chat about one of the biggest challenges that securities firms face - producing bullet-proof performance measurement data to be used in advertisements.
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Take a look at all the new speakers who have been recently confirmed for SecOps North America 2017! See a full rundown of the speaker panels online at https://www.ftfnews.com/event/ftf_securities_operations_technology_conference
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Check out this week's latest news on Trump's travel ban, Brexit, Deutsche Bank fined, Loomis Sayles new cloud-based corporate actions platform & margining deadlines at www.ftfnews.com
Excited to welcome Maryse Gordon from UnaVista to speak at FTF DerivOps North America, May 1-2. Join us: https://www.ftfnews.com/event/derivops-north-america
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Video Interview: Buy- and sell-side firms can be highly successful when they stretch the FIX protocol beyond the front office, says FIX protocol pioneer and advocate Scott Atwell, who is the manager for FIX trading and connectivity at American Century Investments. http://buff.ly/2aZItmc
Mal Cullen, the CEO of Eagle Investment Systems, discussed the key operations data management issues on the horizon such as Eagle’s ongoing reinvestment in its platforms to make certain that they feature state-of-the-art IT and offer updated regulatory support. http://buff.ly/2atYu5i
Video Interview with Terry Flynn, senior sales manager for SimCorp, from the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards as he discusses the SimCorp IBOR vantage point.
In an interview at the FTF News Awards gala on May 17, Bill Blythe, global business development director for Gresham, took questions from FTF News. Blythe argues that Gresham’s clients share a vision with the vendor about the need for #disruptivetechnologies that deliver on the promise of data integrity, which is essential for regulatory compliance and which brings fresh options to a stale market.
In this video interview from the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards this past May, Philippe Chambadal of SmartStream discusses what he thinks is the firm’s biggest achievement for 2015 and where the provider is headed. http://buff.ly/29OgjKO
With all the changes that are taking place in derivatives trading and processing, the easiest way for firms to streamline their clearing operations is to think twice about the products they’re trading, says James Koutoulas, CEO of Typhon Capital Management
Petal Walker, chief counsel for CFTC - U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Sharon Bowen recently sat down with FTF News and discussed whether the CFTC has enough resources and tools to fully review and police the #derivatives market.
Performance reporting is at the heart of performance measurement disciplines and it is a part of the ongoing debate between a securities firm buying technology or building a system, says Paul DeMello, director of investment risk, BNP Paribas. DeMello spoke to FTF News during the Performance Measurement Americas 2016 conference that took place March 10...
Institutions and governmental authorities often require performance reporting based upon GIPS, which call for greater transparency into the results from investment managers. In addition to the GIPS process, firms can use a third-party, witness-based attestation process for verifying financial results. Deciding which process to use (or none at all) boils down to the kinds of clients that a firm serves, says Julie A. Bazan, chief operating officer (COO), Cobblestone Capital Advisors.
Video Interview with FTF News: When it comes to #performancemeasurement and #attribution, data quality issues are paramount, says Jeremy Welch, head of investment reporting performance (IRP) US, BNP Americas IRP Group, part of BNP Paribas
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