Bedford and Main News Updates
Bedford and Main participates in the Expect Miracles Foundation Challenge >
Bedford and Main Financial Consulting is exceptionally proud to support the Expect Miracles Foundation by participating in the Financial Services Against Cancer 4th Annual Distance Challenge. While the Expect Miracles Foundation is a great organization that works with the premier firms in the financial services industry, this cause is even more personal for us as the Director of Development at Expect Miracles Foundation, is John Foster’s niece Maggie.
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Bedford and Main Founder is Recertified by ACAMS >
2023 started off strong as our founder, John Foster, was re-certified by ACAMS as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. ACAMS is the largest international membership organization for Anti-Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Professionals.
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Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! >
Bedford and Main is celebrating 10 years of providing consulting services to the broker-dealer and RIA communities! Thank You to our clients, our supporters and our friends who have made this such a fun and rewarding experience. Keeping with our reputation for meaningful insights – some would say “BS”ing – allow me to offer the top 10 lessons learned in the past decade: 1) First, be a good person.
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Bedford and Main at the 2022 PIABA Annual Conference >
This past year Bedford and Main experienced continued growth in its securities litigation and expert witness services, with cases supporting both sides of the legal table. In support of our continuing goal to educate and protect public investors, we were delighted to once again be able to attend the PIABA (Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association) Annual Conference in October.
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Pershing is Back in Full Swing >
Bedford and Main’s CEO, John Foster, once again attended the annual Pershing INSITE conference, held in Dallas this year. John noted that over the past ten years Bedford and Main has been privileged to develop strong relationships with a few key correspondent clearing providers.
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FINRA’s 2022 Conference is a Success on all Fronts >
FINRA’s annual conference held in Washington DC this week was a success by any standard. While billed as a hybrid event, there was a strong in-person turnout of industry compliance pros.
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Happy to be Back at the FSI Conference >
Who would have thought attending a conference could feel so good? Bedford and Main was once again proud to participate in the annual Financial Services Institute OneVoice Conference, hosted this January in Dallas.
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First Conference in over a Year – SER was a Good One! >
Having gone the longest stretch without attending a conference in the past 30 years, The Securities Expert Roundtable annual meeting was a great one to come back to. Our president and CEO, John Foster, spoke on a panel with a quite interesting topic, the Democratization of Securities.
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Classics From Our Achieves: Our First Podcast! >
Bedford and Main is excited to start the new year off with a bang…
We published our first podcast: A Primer on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) for Broker-Dealers.
Pretty exciting stuff, if we do say so ourselves!
Classics From Our Achieves: A Paper Examining the Diminishing Broker-Dealer Landscape >
Working with our clients over the years, we have often used a pyramid model to help paint a picture of the makeup of the broker-dealer industry. Recently we examined related industry articles and data, which we believe made this picture even more relevant.
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