ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
The story of MiFID II and the selection of the ISIN as an identifier for all instruments in scope of the regulation, including OTC derivatives, has taken another turn, perhaps a final turn, with the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) pressing on with the build of a Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) by issuing an...
Establishing One True Data Voice: Extracting Long Term Benefits from MiFID II Compliance
By Boyke Baboelal, Director of Data Services at Asset Control The delay to the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) – now pushed back to January 2018 – gives institutions a chance to take a different approach. While many of the issues regarding MiFID II are still up in the air,...
OFR Runs Challenge Series to Solve Problem of Matching Entity Identifiers
The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is running a series of challenges designed to develop automated technologies that could solve the problem of matching entity identifiers from different sources and, in particular, make it easier to link entity identifiers from diverse sources to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Results of the first challenge will be...
Bloomberg Introduces Entity Exchange for KYC and Client Onboarding
Bloomberg has released Entity Exchange, a web-based platform designed to speed up onboarding on the buy side and help banks and brokers on the sell side meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. The platform enables hedge funds to provide entity data and documentation to their trading counterparties. It is supported by Bloomberg’s data intelligence team...
Schroders Selects Clarient Entity Hub to Support Know Your Customer Processes
Schroders Investment Management (Luxembourg) has selected Clarient Entity Hub to support Know Your Customer (KYC) processing for intermediary and institutional investors at its Luxembourg funds hub, and to help counterparties complete their KYC processing on Schroders’ Luxembourg funds. Before joining the Clarient Entity Hub, which offers a utility based service designed to simplify client data...
Bloomberg Applies to Become a Local Operating Unit in the Global LEI System
Bloomberg has applied to the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to become a Local Operating Unit (LOU) within the Global LEI System (GLEIS). The company expects to complete the application process in September and plans to promote use of the LEI on a global basis. The Global LEI System was introduced in 2012 and...
Alacra Eases Access to Companies House Client Due Diligence Documents
Alacra has improved access to due diligence documents for UK domiciled firms by integrating the beta version of Companies House application programming interface (API) with the Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) platform that provides Know Your Customer and client onboarding services. The company, recently acquired by compliance platform provider Opus, is also working with Companies House...
Swift Adds Ultimate Entity Ownership Data to Entity Plus Directory
Swift has added ultimate ownership data to entities in its Entity Plus directory and is planning to add more hierarchy data to the entity data in line with the requirements of its user community. Entity Plus was made available late last year to support financial institutions’ entity data management processes and compliance with regulations that...
AxiomSL Adds Solution for SA-CCR Compliance to Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has added a solution that meets the requirements of Basel’s Standardised Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk Exposures (SA-CCR) to its regulatory reporting platform ahead of the rule’s compliance deadline of January 1st 2017. SA-CCR will replace the Current Exposure Method and Standardised Method calculations enshrined in the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV)...
Bloomberg Opens Website Dedicated to the Financial Instrument Global Identifier and Adds API
Bloomberg continues to promote industry use of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), a free and open data standard for financial instrument identification, through the introduction of OpenFIGI.com and OpenFIGI API. The OpenFIGI.com website provides access to tools for identifying, mapping and requesting FIGI datasets, while the OpenFIGI API allows mapping from third-party identifiers to...