It’s an early Saturday afternoon before the first full week of January, which means escaping family conversations is sitting watching reruns until the your programs start up again in a week or so. You might want to take this time to check out BTFDtv, a new online video network for traders by traders. Don’t expect…
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We Get It: The Markets are Fine
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•Since today is the US quasi-holiday Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day for our northern neighbor, I do not feel really bad about sharing my thoughts about the Investment Company Institute‘s Capital Markets Conference held on October 10. I have to admit that the conference had a pretty impressive line up. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Scott O’Malia started the…
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SIFMA Tech Dispatches: Post Mortem
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•I’m feeling that I’m a bit in a minority after speaking to industry contacts, but I enjoyed this year’s SIFMA Tech conference. I spent most of my time in the regulatory sessions on the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and the proposed Regulation System Compliance & Integration (SCI), which provided great amount of details on both…
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It’s SIFMA Time Again
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•Yep, the unofficial start of summer is almost here. Forget about Memorial Day or the first summer bank holiday being the start of summer – that is mere tripe for civilians. For financial technologists, vendor community and trade press, summer starts the Thursday after SIFMA Tech conference. Before that is a 48-hour marathon of industry…
Fi-Tech Culture
Museum of American Finance: Wall Street’s Hidden Gem
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•Okay, I’m somewhat loathed to write this post since I do not want to crawl over even more tourist in New York’s financial district, but hidden among the high-end retailers, gyms and other businesses that support Wall Street workers is a great museum, The Museum of American Finance. It is easy to walk by the museum…