Perspectives and Research From the Viking Longboat

Check out John's 2021 video interview with John Lothian News: https://johnlothiannews.com/from-punch-cards-to-crypto-one-mans-journey-thr...

Check out the SEC's exam priorities for 2025 in the attached summary. It covers investment firms, investment banks, securities...

In light of the recent global CrowdStrike outage, regulators are reminding the industry of their cybersecurity risk management compliance...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of Tellefsen and Company. Gerald (Jerry) Tellefsen started the firm in April of 1984...

Latham and Watkins has posted an excellent summary of the SEC's recently updated Statutory Definitions of Dealer and Government...

On December 18th, the CFTC issued a "Notice of Proposed Rule making to Require FCMs, Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants to...

In light of the January 2023 ION Markets/Fidessa ransomware attack, John Rapa and Michael Phillips of VSEC participated in a podcast...

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Join us December 5th at the Tabb Forum sponsored "Boston Institutional Digital Assets Forum" and meet representatives from institutions...

Thanks to Dan Gramza and Michael Rabkin for a great panel discussion on"New digital assets: How to overcome challenges within the...

As cloud adoption has risen in the last 5-6 years, many firms have migrated to public and private cloud deployments. The global impacts...

Check out this Penguin link about the many uses of this fascinating plant: https://penguincbd.com/blog/hemp-facts

On November 10th, the FIA's Market Technology division moderated its fourth annual cybersecurity scenario workshop. This year, the event...

Tellefsen and Company developed an industry-wide survey for the Futures Industry Association (FIA) to fully understand the impact from...

The SEC just adopted new rules to modernize the infrastructure for the collection, consolidation, and dissemination of market data for...

With the COVID-19 impacts of the last 6 months, has your firm revisited and updated its business continuity plan (BCP) and information...

I recently moderated a timely digital asset trading panel on: "Capturing Crypto Alpha - What Strategies are Maximizing Returns in the...

Today, we released the results of our recent financial services industry survey on the impact, response and lessons learned from the...

Does your firm have a game plan yet for how and when to re-start your business offices and start to get to the next normal? What are your...

As state and local governments loosen up their emergency orders and restrictions on the impacts of COVID-19, you need to have a game plan...