Financial Technologies Forum LLC
October 10, 2012
Financial Technologies Forum LLC
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FTF Panel Says Providers Must Foster New Technology as B.I.S.S. Research Joins Forces with STP Consulting Solutions

Service providers that notify clients of corporate actions have to be change agents if they want customers to replace fax machines and manual processes with XML-based standards, web-based applications, SWIFT services and mobile devices, according to a panel discussion at the Sixth Annual Corporate Actions Processing Conference, presented last week by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF). ...Read More
NYC Loses 1,200 Jobs in 2012 as SIFMA and ICAP Add Staff
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Conventional wisdom says Dodd-Frank will survive no matter who is elected president in November. But conventional wisdom also said that President Barack Obama would handily win last night’s first presidential debate. Yet an energized Mitt Romney, the GOP challenger, won. As the debate touched on Dodd-Frank, it’s time to ask again what Romney would do to Dodd-Frank if he gets elected. ... Read More
Gresham Computing is one of the sponsors of FTF’s 7th Annual Reconciliations & Exception Management Conference.

When I looked through the list of sponsors there was one really noticeable omission. The vendor that supplies the software that undertakes the majority of reconciliations in every financial firm was not on the list. Surely some mistake? Actually no. The big mistake is that the reconciliation tool of choice in most institutions is Excel. ...Read More
Events
7th Annual Reconciliations and Exception Management Conference
October 17, 2012, New York, NY
Earn 7 CPE Credits     
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The confluence of Dodd-Frank and Basel III requirements is putting back offices under more strain than ever before. Laudable ideas like enterprise data management and real-time reporting have gone from pipe dreams to regulatory requirements.

Agenda Highlights:
•   Keynote Address: Presented by Gresham Computing
•   Adapting Reconciliation for the 21st Century
•   Operating in a Faster Environment: The Push Towards Real-Time Reconciliation
•   The More the Merrier?: The Growth of Tri-Party Reconciliation
•   Taking Control: Ways to Improve Internal Control Systems
•   Getting the “Big” Picture: Deploying Enterprise-wide Reconciliation
•   Selecting the Proper Reconciliation Platforms
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