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This post was written by Cindy Kraft, the CFO Coach, who is a career and personal-brand strategist for CFOs and corporate finance executives. SmartPulse...

Skepticism was the theme of the day during a discussion on financial regulatory reform  at the Milken Institute Global Conference today in Los Angeles....

Jerry L. Mills is CEO of B2B CFO, a part-time chief financial officer company he founded in 1987. He is also a partner of...

With swaps and derivatives likely to play as critical a role in the year to come as ever before, SmartBrief asked Stephen O’Connor, chairman...

A collection of recent commentaries and analysis pieces … Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources, writes in the Financial Times...

During the past eight years, I have had the opportunity to present leadership and business improvement training sessions to more than 1,200 CEOs from...

GFMA CEO Simon Lewis Resolving G-SIFIs: A question-and-answer session with Simon Lewis, chief executive of the Global Financial Markets Association, on a joint paper...

CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy SmartBrief caught up with CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy this week on the...

The easiest way for financial advisors to have an impact on the regulatory reform process is to participate in it. That was the advice...

Paul E. Purcell, chairman, CEO and president of Robert W. Baird & Co., sees a lot of positive signs in the financial markets industry....

The future of the independent financial services industry was the umbrella topic at the Financial Services Institute’s OneVoice 2014 conference, held this week in...

Renee Brown, Senior Vice President and Director of Social Media for Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo recently unveiled a “command center” aimed at monitoring and...

Advisers need to proactively review clients’ annuities that are within individual retirement accounts to avoid “traps” by ensuring required minimum distributions are being taken...

“If we fail to make the investment in our aging transportation infrastructure, our economy will suffer. Our transportation system is the backbone of the...

This guest post is written by Jim Camp, CEO of Camp Negotiation Systems, who has trained and coached over 100,000 people through thousands of...

Dennis and Michelle Reina are the co-founders of the Reina Trust Building Institute, a consulting and research firm that helps companies deal with trust...

It comes as no surprise that the man trying the steer NYSE Euronext’s merger with Deutsche Boerse views global deal making as an “inexorable...

Whose name you might see if you’re ever in space; why companies are chopping benefits; and why the U.S. might not adopt IFRS. It’s...

How to improve compliance in 2012; execs won’t go without bonuses even in troubled times; and one Italian feline that’s a real fat cat....

News and analyses worth another look this weekend … The Economist looks at how banks worldwide are going native with their lending: “A big...

News and analyses worth a read this weekend … A former software engineer wrote in The New York Times about how algorithmic-trading firms could...

Simon Lewis was appointed chief executive officer of GFMA in January and chief executive of AFME in October 2010. Previously, he was director of...

Disney has many businesses, but one of its most successful is in cruise ships. They’re popular and make money. Cruise ships in general are...

In my last post, I discussed some of the ways that companies contemplating an initial public offering or a possible acquisition by a larger...

Research firm Cerulli Associates forecasts that more than 25,000 financial advisers will retire or leave the industry by 2017. How the industry copes with...

A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… RUKM!: The folks at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are incredibly tone-deaf because...

In 2011, the oldest baby boomers reached the traditional retirement age of 65, and through 2029, about 8,000 boomers will reach that milestone every...

Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, discussed Sec. 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, which deals with carbon emission reductions, at...