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Opinion: Dangerous Data
By Philippe Verriest, Director, Euroclear Data is a vital component of our capital markets. Ensure this data is accurate, and you have a solid basis from which to make considered business decisions. Get it wrong and you risk contaminating many parts of the transaction chain. If there is one lesson that the global financial crisis…
CICI Utility to Rebrand Next Month Under Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) Banner
The CICI utility, the DTCC- and Swift-operated repository for so-called pre-LEIs that has managed the registrations of so-called CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) since its launch in August 2012, will rebrand itself next month as the Global Markets Entity Identifier Utility, or GMEI Utility. The rebranding is scheduled to take effect January 21. From that…
Traiana Supports EMIR Reporting with a Management Solution for Unique Trade Identifiers
Traiana has started to onboard customers of its Unique Trade Identifier (UTI) management solution with a view to helping them meet the February 12, 2014 reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation, which requires both sides of a trade to report using the same trade identifier. The UTI management service is an extension of Traiana’s…
Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption
Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,…
ESMA Approves Trade Repositories for EMIR and Sets February Deadline for Derivatives Reporting
The reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has been set for February 12, 2014, following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) approval of four trade repositories for derivatives trading. A request by ESMA to delay the reporting deadline for exchange-traded derivatives by a year has been turned down by the European Commission….
Global LEI System Takes Two Small Steps Towards Operation
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has inched forward with operational moves being made by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) to address reference data issues around the LEI and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to accept LEIs from all endorsed pre-local operating units (LOUs). The Secretariat of the ROC has written a…
Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…
DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data
The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required…
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: The LEI Regains Momentum
There is one comment that comes to mind every time we write about the development of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system. It was voiced in an A-Team Group webinar back in April by Tim Lind, global head of middle office, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters. He said: “This is a marathon, not a…
Swift Starts to Populate BIC to LEI Directory with GEI and CICI Pre-Legal Entity Identifiers
Swift has met customer demand for Business Identifier Code (BIC) to Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) mapping with a BIC to LEI directory for users of its SwiftRef payments data platform and BIC to LEI mapping in a handful of its existing products. The company says it has mapped 4,800 BICs to pre-LEIs – over time…