The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Compliance with the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation is just over 18 months away, meaning broker dealers within the scope of the regulation need to get started on their response. Like Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), CAT reporting presents significant – and similar – data management challenges, particularly around customer, account...
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
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The time for talking is over. The time for action is now. A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but given last month’s official launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, practitioners are rolling up their sleeves and getting on with figuring out how to incorporate the new identifier into their customer and entity data infrastructures....