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Avox Passes One Million Entity Milestone with Plans for Further Growth and Additional Services
Avox has posed a 25% year-on-year gain in the number of entities it has validated, bringing its total database of entities with validated reference data to over a million. The million-entity milestone comes against the backdrop of the imminent launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, which was the subject of last week’s…
Trillium Software Responds to Regulatory Pressure with Latest Release of Software System
Trillium Software’s latest release of Trillium Software System reflects growing requirements for self-service data management across financial firms’ lines of business as well as the need for speed in handling greater volumes of data. Version 14 of the software is available immediately and has been developed not only as a flexible tool for line of…
Experts Debate the Timeline, Benefits and Challenges of the Global LEI System
The expert panel on this week’s A-Team Hot Topics webinar on global legal entity identifier (LEI) expects the new standard to be fully operational by the end of 2013, as it builds momentum following next month’s official roll-out. With the establishment of a Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) early this year, the creation of a Central…
Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Markit Set to Join Corporate Actions Fray as It Ponders DTCC’s GCA VS
At the risk of sounding like the proverbial Boy Who Cried Wolf, it now seems that Markit is at due diligence phase in its attempt to acquire the DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS). You’ll recall that just a few weeks ago Markit abandoned its interest in EDM stalwart Asset Control, ostensibly having…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Great LEI Road Show Comes To Town
Right on cue, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) this week released a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs), to help practitioners get their heads around the new legal entity identifier (LEI) ahead of its launch next month. The FAQs help set the scene for the long-awaited introduction of this crucial data standard, and it’s…
Risk Data and Technology Take Centre Stage at A-Team’s Data Management Summit
Bang on schedule, the programme for our Data Management Summit in London on March 12 has crystallised into a must-attend event for anyone whose fortunes are tied up with enterprise data and the technologies used to manage it. As you’d probably expect, risk features strongly in this year’s programme, with sessions dedicated to risk data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Down to the Wire
Bang on schedule, the program for our Data Management Summit in London on March 12 has crystallised into a must-attend event for anyone whose fortunes are tied up with enterprise data and the technologies used to manage it. I’m particularly thrilled to have a stellar line-up of keynote speakers, and a great response to our…
Trading Ecosystems and Liquidity
Liquidity is King Liquidity is a vital, if nebulous, conundrum. For a securities exchange, it is of the essence. Traders love it. Corporate issuers consider it crucial when choosing where to list. Yet at times it can depend on nothing more substantial than market sentiment. It is proverbially ‘sticky’ – liquidity attracts liquidity, yet it…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Markit-Asset Control – New Dawn Fades
The buzz around Markit’s alleged interest in Asset Control reached fever pitch a week or so ago when an anonymous caller to Reference Data Review suggested the deal was done and Asset Control’s senior management relieved of their duties. But just a few days after we went public with speculation of a transaction, the deal…