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The election is over and we still have a divided Congress and impending “fiscal cliff.” So what can the construction industry expect during Congress’...
High-frequency trading and the “futurization” of swaps were hot topics Monday during the “Evolving Capital Market Dynamics” panel discussion at CME Group’s annual Global...
Small businesses face a number of challenges, with security at the top of the list. Yet many small-business owners don’t even realize the substantial...
SmartBrief recently caught up with William A. Coppel, Managing Director and Chief Client Growth Officer for First Clearing Correspondent Services, to discuss the future...
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...
Simon Lewis was appointed chief executive officer of GFMA in January and chief executive of AFME in October 2010. Previously, he was director of...
As the year ends, many people make their annual contributions to their favorite charities. The average American donates $298 in cash each year to...
IACPM Chairman Derek Saunders With an eye on what lies ahead for the industry in 2013, SmartBrief conducted an e-mail interview with Derek Saunders,...
Six years of recession in the U.S. has cut a $1.2 trillion-a-year construction industry into one that is worth about $800 billion a year....
The demographics of the U.S. population are changing dramatically. We are becoming a much more diverse society due to the growth of minority populations...
More than 3.8 million additional square miles of aerial imagery have been incorporated into the ArcGIS World Imagery Map, a service provided by Esri...
Federal agencies’ use of geographic information systems is on display in 133 maps featured in a new book from Esri. The full-color maps demonstrate...
CBOE Holdings Chairman and CEO William Brodsky says increased certainty about the Dodd-Frank Act should allow regulators to sharpen their focus in the near...
Traders may find it slightly disconcerting to learn what is going on inside their bodies when volatility rises and falls, says John Coates, senior...
Singapore Exchange and Korea Exchange have decided to collaborate in an effort to develop over-the-counter financial derivatives clearing capabilities. SGX, which has been clearing...
Last week’s International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Fla., featured luminaries from all aspects of the futures industry. The speeches and panel discussions...
Since virtually the day the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted, some policymakers and market participants have been working to...
IntercontinentalExchange founder, Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher Whether it was introducing Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler’s keynote address or sharing his witty...
For many Americans, April 15 — Tax Day — is their least favorite day of the year. In 2009, Americans paid $866 billion in...
CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy SmartBrief caught up with CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy on the sidelines of...
CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy SmartBrief caught up with CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy this week on the...
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...
Kaihan Krippendorff Innovation has for years come from designers and marketers, from the creators of new products. The top innovation consulting firms all spring...
Alan Jay Kaufman is chairman, president and CEO of independent wholesale insurance brokerage Burns & Wilcox, as well as Kaufman Financial Group, its parent...
Bennett Stewart is an expert in shareholder value and corporate performance management, and CEO of EVA Dimensions, a financial technology firm that provides software...
Speaking during the opening panel at the 2013 International Derivatives Expo this morning in London, the leaders of some of the world’s leading exchanges...
Jonathan Jachym is the Executive Director of Government Relations for CME Group. Based in London, Jachym has interacted with regulators in the the U.S.,...
Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa Steve Grob is the Director of Group Strategy for Fidessa, where he is also the brains behind...
SAP announced this week that it would be partnering with Esri, a leading geographic information system (GIS) and location analytics provider, to help customers...
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Among the bevy of regularly released U.S. statistics available to economists for forecasting...
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Given the fun events over at the Nasdaq yesterday, this primer on high-frequency...
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… M.I.T. economist dissects financial innovation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Alp Simsek has...
The primary focus of the well-publicized and sweeping corporate governance reforms adopted over the last decade, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”)...
A collection of stories from SmartBrief publications and around the web… Regulators move to soften Dodd-Frank rule on mortgages makes waves: The decision by...
The Financial Services Institute today unveiled a brand new website and social network aimed at increasing its online advocacy prowess and helping its independent...
A roundup of news and insight from SmartBrief’s coverage of the Financial Services Institute’s Financial Advisor Summit taking place this week in Washington, D.C....
The easiest way for financial advisors to have an impact on the regulatory reform process is to participate in it. That was the advice...
In my last post, I discussed some of the ways that companies contemplating an initial public offering or a possible acquisition by a larger...
The 5-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has sparked numerous retrospectives of the financial crisis (and the response to the crisis). Here are...
Matthew J. Slaughter, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Uncertainty. It is the one...
Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at MIT. Courtesy: MIT As the director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Coughlin...
TIAA-CREF President and CEO Roger W. Ferguson speaking at the IRI Vision Annual Meeting in Chicago. Courtesy: IRI “Retirement has become a source of...