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Data Quality Tops List of Fixed-Income Market Challenges

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Poor data quality has topped a list of challenges faced by fixed-income market participants in a survey by SIX.

The poll found that almost three-fifths of respondents said that issues such as mismatches in reference data, such as identifiers, or coupon details delaying settlements were the leading hurdles to smooth operations. Data integration was a problem for almost half of respondents and a third cited a lack of data transparency.

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