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Bloomberg Responds to EMIR and MifID II Consultations With Call for Inclusion of FIGI in Reporting
Bloomberg has responded to a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consultation on European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) suggesting the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), should be used as an instrument identifier for reporting under the regulation. While the ESMA consultation opened on November 10, 2014 and closes today,…
Opinion – BCBS 239 Compliance: Slip Slidin’ Away?
By Jennifer L. Costley, Ph.D., Principal, Ashokan Advisors “Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip slidin’ away…” – Paul Simon A couple of weeks ago, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued their second annual progress report on the adoption of the Committee’s Principles for…
Bureau van Dijk offers Datasets that Fulfil Expected Requirements for LEI Data Hierarchies
Bureau van Dijk (BvD), a provider of company information, is ready to meet financial institutions’ requirements for Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) hierarchy data once the data is defined by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI or agreed by financial market participants for use in the Global LEI System. The lack of defined LEI…
Mizuho International’s Implementation of GoldenSource EDM Reduces Operational Risk and Improves Data Quality
Mizuho International has reduced operational risk, improved data quality and cut down the time it takes to onboard clients by replacing legacy systems and manual processes with an enterprise data management (EDM) solution from GoldenSource. The London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Securities, part of the Mizuho Financial Group, selected GoldenSource EDM in…
Legal and General Investment Management Picks Sun Street’s Curium for Data Quality Management
Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has completed its initial implementation of Curium DQM across its data management and investment operations teams in London and Chicago as part of its drive to meet key data governance objectives and visibility of data across the enterprise. At LGIM the first phase of Curium DQM adoption provides a…
Alacra and Accuity Partner to Integrate Bankers Almanac with Alacra Compliance Enterprise
Accuity and Alacra have partnered to integrate data from Accuity’s Bankers Almanac with the Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) workflow application. The partnership includes integration of Bankers Almanac’s Due Diligence Data File with ACE and is expected to increase the speed and efficiency of client onboarding. The partnership has been made in response to client requests…
Swift Considers Client Name Screening Service Based on Sanctions Screening Managed Service Model
Swift has extended its sanctions screening service to support all financial transaction formats and is considering the feasibility of using a similar managed service model to build a client name screening solution that could support banks’ client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. Extensions to Swift’s sanctions screening service cover batch SEPA payments and…
Bloomberg Builds Out Use Cases of Vault Data Management Service
Bloomberg is considering additional use cases for its Vault data management solution and File Analytics software including reference data management and maintenance for regulatory reporting. File Analytics was added to Bloomberg’s cloud-based Vault service in June 2014 with a view to helping organisations locate and manage what Bloomberg calls dark data, essentially structured and unstructured…
Man Group Streamlines KYC Process with Thomson Reuters Managed Service
Man Group has selected Thomson Reuters’ KYC Managed Service to replace predominantly manual in-house customer due diligence processes. The managed service is expected to help the alternative investment manager streamline its Know Your Customer (KYC) process and improve the monitoring of client records on an ongoing basis. Man Group searched the market for a global…
New York Data Management Summit: Market Participants Argue the Case for LEI Hierarchy Data
Regulation, an entity-centric view of clients, and the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) are driving entity data management across capital markets, but the picture is not complete with market practitioners noting that the LEI needs hierarchy data to make it truly useful and a solution to the problem of monitoring systemic risk, for which it was…