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Swift’s Recently Promoted Vandenreydt Calls for Global Coordination of Legal Entity ID Standards
Following its recent submission to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) on the subject of legal entity identification, Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt speaks to Reference Data Review about why he feels Europe and the US are on the same page with regards to standardisation of this space. Vandenreydt, who was recently promoted to head of Securities and…
Number Crunching
For those of you put off by the thought of wading through the responses received by the Office of Financial Research (OFR) last week on the subject of legal entity identification (or even reading through our rather lengthy and comprehensive guide on the subject), here are a few headline numbers to make it more easily…
A Peek Behind the Curtain of the OFR
This week I chatted to Shaun Brady, principal at not for profit advisory firm to the US government Mitre Corporation, about some of the work going on behind the scenes on Capitol Hill regarding the selection process for a technology provider and the finding of a suitable director to head up the Office of Financial…
UPDATED: A-Team’s Comprehensive Guide to the Legal Entity ID Feedback to the OFR
The start of this week saw the passing of deadline for feedback to the Office of Financial Research on the subject of legal entity identification and it appears that a number of recurring themes crop up in the 30 different responses (updated entries included) submitted by various industry associations, including concerns about the tight timelines impacting…
Sifma Hires a Project Manager to Champion its Interests and Those of Seven Other Associations on the OFR LEI Issue
The combined response submitted by the Clearing House Association, EDM Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association (FIA), International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Investment Company Institute, the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) may be only one of the 20 received this week by…
Omgeo Partners with Markit Document Exchange, Rather Than Building In-house Capabilities for Alert
Post-trade solution provider Omgeo has partnered with derivatives data specialist Markit to connect Omgeo’s standing settlement and account instructions (SSI) database Alert to Markit Document Exchange (MDE), the latter’s online document storage platform. John Burchenal, managing director of market growth at Omgeo, explains to Reference Data Review that the vendor opted to partner rather than…
SIFMA Urges Coordination on Creation of Legal Entity Identification System
SIFMA, along with the Clearing House, Enterprise Data Management Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Investment Company Institute, and the Managed Funds Association today submitted a comment letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) on a proposal to develop a system of uniform…
S&P Boosts ABSXchange Analytical Capabilities
A series of enhancements have been made to ABSXchange – S&P’s structured finance analytics platform – as part of an extensive programme to help investors deepen their analysis of structured finance transactions. The latest round of upgrades include automatically calculated data fields where values are not otherwise supplied by deal servicers; a new screening capability…
FinCen Proposes New Electronic Format and Data Field Amendments for Unified Currency Transaction Reports in the US
In keeping with its work to move from paper-based to electronic reporting formats, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) has published a list of proposed new data fields to be added to firms’ currency transaction reports, as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Industry participants have until 28 March to provide feedback on…
Opinion: Data Repositories and Consolidated Tape Proposals
By Chris Pickles, head of marketing for Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking at BT The story begins with passengers (the public) on a plane with all the aircrew (the investment firms) telling them how smooth and level the flight is going to be, just as it has always been. That was back in 2005. And…