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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,…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Achieving a Seamless Customer View Across the Enterprise
Managing data to achieve a single view of customers is the aim of many banks. The task can be difficult, especially in banks with numerous silos of customer data, but it can be rewarding and deliver benefits including increased customer profitability and decreased costs of customer service. Approaches to achieving a single view of customers…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: See You This Thursday
Yes, it’s this week. The A-Team Data Management Summit is coming to town (if you happen to be in London) this coming Thursday, October 1. I’m particularly excited by this event as we’ve managed to attract our strongest group of speakers and panellists to date. And, as you might expect, this lineup of senior bank…
ESMA has Published Its Technical Standards for MiFIR!
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team At last the document has arrived – you can find it on the ESMA web site at http://tinyurl.com/nh5spx7. And there are changes in there that are very significant to anyone involved in reference data, in compliance,…
Cost and Compliance Drive Increasing Adoption of Centralised Customer Data Solutions
Banks have bought into the principle of centralising data to support Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance and deliver a better customer experience, and are now turning principle into practice. The approaches they are taking to centralise data, the solutions they are implementing and the benefits they expect to accrue will be discussed at this week’s…
Thomson Reuters Details PermID as Part of Open Platform Strategy
Thomson Reuters has set out the details of its Permanent Identifier (PermID), a machine readable identifier covering a wide variety of data items including financial institutions, instruments, events and people, and part of the company’s open platform strategy. PermID is the internal standard devised after the merger of Thomson and Reuters to master the company’s…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
A-Team Data Management Summit: The Value of Data
As the volume of data held by financial institutions continues to rise at an alarming rate, many firms are considering how best to manage the data with regard to what it is needed for and how it can be used to add value to the business. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines….
The Single, Simple Goal of Every Data Operation (and the Three Roadblocks to Achieving It)
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion To compete with rivals, comply with regulations and please customers, financial institutions must achieve one solitary operational goal: better quality data through smarter, more agile and transparent processes that generate end-to-end audit trails while simultaneously using fewer human resources, rationalising technology point solutions and increasing automation without burdening…