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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…
Deriving True Business Value from the Global LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – the free-to-use entity identifier – has established itself as a viable standard for helping financial institutions identify unique business entities that are parties to financial transactions. But it’s widely accepted to have its limitations. In particular, a lack of standardization and ability to link to associated data sets is…
Recorded Webinar: Solving the problem of integrating beneficial ownership data with client onboarding and KYC systems
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are becoming more complex as regulation drives towards the inclusion of beneficial ownership data and requires financial institutions to improve customer due diligence still further. The webinar will discuss the need for beneficial ownership data, how it can be sourced and how it can be efficiently and…
Regulatory Data Handbook – Fourth Edition
Need to know all the essentials about the regulations impacting data management? Welcome to the Fourth edition of our A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook which provides all the essentials about regulations impacting data management. A-Team’s series of Regulatory Data Handbooks are a great way to see at-a-glance: All the regulations that are impacting data management today A…
Recorded Webinar: Four categories of entity data quality management
We all know entity data is difficult. But there are four key categories of data quality management that you can apply to make measurable improvements to your entity data. Traditional methods no longer work. You need methods to accurately measure the quality of your data and give you the ability to take meaningful action. In…
Entity Data Quality: New Approaches and the Four Categories of Data Quality Management
Legal entity data is critical to data strategy, business decisions and regulatory compliance, but it can be a challenge to ensure the data is accurate and reliable as the entity universe is large, millions of attributes change every year and inconsistent codes and symbologies identifying entities, corporate hierarchies and ultimate beneficial owners must be managed….
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,…
Recorded Webinar: Best practice solutions for client lifecycle management
The challenges of client lifecycle management continue to increase, driven by regulation and requiring financial institutions to review processes around client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and client data maintenance. The webinar will outline the challenges faced by financial institutions, discuss best practice solutions, detail the need to integrate high quality entity data, and include…
Recorded Webinar: Client onboarding and KYC: the data management challenges
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are imperative to regulatory compliance and building competitive advantage, but how much progress is the industry making in transitioning onboarding from a disjointed process run across many functions to an holistic operation spanning the enterprise? New approaches and technologies are available, so how best can you implement…
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…


