Category Archives: Reconciliations

Lean and Efficient Best Practices: Utilities, Shared Services and Centres of Excellence in Reconciliations

Guest Contributor: David Penney, Executive Vice President , SmartStream Technologies Ltd Reconciliations are an essential part of back office processing throughout financial services and markets. Experience with our customers leads to the conclusion that Internal Utilities are already well established … Continue reading

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FTF News Predictions for 2013 – Download our Digital Issue Today!

To say the least, FTF News is very proud to present our first completely digital magazine. As you flip through the pages (love those sound effects) and admire the look of it, you will see that we are making some … Continue reading

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Get Your Big Data Under Control

Guest Contributor:  Mark Wickersham, Director of Product, ByAllAccounts, Inc. Mid-market asset managers drowning in compliance costs are reaching for better reconciliation systems in order to expand their AUM without collapsing their margins. For many investment management firms, new channels of … Continue reading

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Rethinking Reconciliation

Guest Contributor: Michael Alexander, EVP & COO Business Process Outsourcing, Broadridge Financial Solutions Financial institutions can enhance risk management and reduce costs through a reconciliation global center of excellence.  Timing is critical. The cost of falling further behind industry standards … Continue reading

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6 Keys to Reconciliation: What Asset Management Operations Really Need to Know [Complimentary Whitepaper]

Download Whitepaper Now Complimentary Whitepaper Reconciliation Best Practice What Asset Management Operations Really Need to Know. Featuring expert insights on the six key functional areas critical to reconciliation. By Duncan Wheatley, Managing Director of Watson Wheatley Financial Systems. The reconciliation … Continue reading

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Reconciliation Vendors Say Cheeeeese

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This week, FTF held its 7th Annual Reconciliations & Exception Management Conference in New York City.  The event was a great success with over 100 attendees and 10 sponsors.  Take a look through some of the great companies that participated: … Continue reading

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Capital Markets and Expensive Errors

Guest Contributor: Joseph DiNardo, Senior Product Manager, Bonaire Software Many capital markets firms have been asking themselves the following: “How confident is my expense management team in the accuracy and validation of trade expense costs when paying vendor invoices?” – or … Continue reading

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Big Mistake Making Reconciliation Tool of Choice Excel

Guest Contributor: Neil Vernon, Product Development Director, Gresham Computing 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 … Continue reading

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Reconciliations: Important and Necessary

Last week we held our 6th Annual Reconciliations & Exception Management conference in New York City.  Upon arriving at the event, our chairperson, Dayle Scher of StateStreet, took a quick walk down memory lane and told me how she remembered … Continue reading

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Achieving Operational Efficiency and Automation by Making New Friends

Recently we have seen financial technology providers joining forces with each other in order to create better solutions and processes that will keep financial institutions compliant with the new regulations we all face. Just last week, we saw the DTCC, … Continue reading

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