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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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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 2020 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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No News is Good News! >
Traditionally our News updates focus on various industry events and conferences that we attend. This past year, that all came to a screeching halt. In fact, this is probably the first year without a plane flight since the early 1990s.
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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!

Download 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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