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Global LEI Foundation Swings into Action After Taking Operational Control of the Global LEI System
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has become the central operating unit of the Global LEI System (GLEIS), ending the interim system overseen and coordinated by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI and setting in motion activities including an accreditation process for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), a quality management programme, and expansion...
Philippe Chambadal Details Development of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility
After the long-awaited public announcement of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility – or SPReD, the Securities Product Reference Data utility – earlier this week, A-Team caught up with SmartStream CEO Philippe Chambadal to find out more about the utility and its ongoing development. The utility is owned jointly by SmartStream, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and...
The Search for Liquidity in Corporate Debt Markets
This is a contributed article from Andrew Howieson, an advisor to FactEntry. Corporate bond markets are inherently illiquid There is now wide recognition that corporate debt markets lack sufficient liquidity to meet investor trading requirements. Blackrock’s September 2014 paper Corporate Bond Market Structure: The Time for Reform is Now described the trading market structure as...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Symphony of Paper Tigers
Some of us were encouraged – relieved, even – to read on various non-value-added news ‘services’ (PR wires?) about the success of the Symphony trader messaging collaboration in securing financial support from Google Alphabet, the new incubator-type funding organisation supported by You Know Who. We were pleased because Google’s support clearly indicated to us that...
Thomson Reuters Increases Frequency of Reference Data Delivery with DataScope Equities Plus
Thomson Reuters continues to build out its strategy of making products as flexible and easy to use as possible with the introduction of Thomson Reuters DataScope Equities Plus, a bulk data feed solution that moves on from intra-day reference data delivery to provide updated data every 15 minutes. Pricing data continues to be supplied on...
German Development Bank KfW Implements Markit EDM
KfW, Germany’s largest development bank, has selected Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution to drive BCBS 239 compliance, streamline its data management architecture and support its liquidity and portfolio valuations projects. Markit won the KfW contract after a lengthy public tender process that included a two month proof of concept and gaining business sign off...
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley Confirm Development of SPReD Reference Data Utility
After much deliberation, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have gone public with plans to work with SmartStream to develop a multi-tenanted reference data utility designed to cut the cost of integrating, cleansing and distributing data. The SmartStream Reference Data Utility, informally known as SPReD – Securities Product Reference Data – has been...
Big Data is Old News, We Need Meaningful Data
By Robert Iati, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet I spoke at the FIMA Canada event in September and heard many of the presentations and panels, as well as talks presented by some of the best institutions, vendors, academics and data managers. After it was done, I thought back on what I’d heard and...
Datactics Extends FlowDesigner to Deliver DQ Metrics for Regulatory Data Compliance
Datactics has extended its FlowDesigner data quality platform to offer DQ Metrics, a monitoring and measurement application that allows financial institutions to measure their data compliance against regulations and industry standards on a continuous basis. The company’s initial release of DQ Metrics covers entity identifiers, particularly LEIs required by MiFID II and EMIR, and GIIN...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The European Question
The marketplace is whirring with great minds turning their attention to what the latest ESMA rules for MiFID II actually mean. We’re not sure anyone has completely figured that out yet, but we’ll be watching closely as we’re embroiled in a number of projects that are impacted to various degrees by the latest ESMA utterances,...