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Meeting ESG Demand – How this New Kind of Data Delivers Competitive Edge
By Stef Nielen, Strategic Business Development, Alveo. Buy-side financial firms are increasingly looking to tap into alternative data sets, including rapidly emerging environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to give them a competitive edge. There are several drivers behind this. First, regulation, and the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in particular, forces funds to…
Element22 Outlines The Data Challenges and Business Opportunities of SFDR Compliance
With the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) fast approaching on 10 March 2021, is your organisation data ready for compliance, what data management challenges are you facing, and how can these be overcome? Still more, how prepared is your organisation for the next deadline on 30 June 2021, and the…
GLEIF Details Technologies Underlying Digital Version of LEI, the Verifiable LEI
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published issuance and technical infrastructure models for the verifiable LEI (vLEI) system it introduced back in December 2020. The vLEI is a secure digital attestation of a conventional LEI and is designed to extend the use of the identifier and, ultimately, enable instant and automated identity verification…
DSB Managing Director Emma Kalliomaki Outlines Issues in Progressing the UPI
As the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first round of industry consultation on fee principles for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) plays out, we talked to Emma Kalliomaki, managing director of ANNA and the DSB, about some of the issues involved in getting the UPI up, running and ready for its Q3 2022 release. Early conversations…
The Deal is Done – LSEG Completes Acquisition of Refinitiv
A big day in the City last Friday as the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) completed its all-share acquisition of Refinitiv first mooted back in July 2019. The acquisition is expected to create a leading, UK-headquartered, global financial market infrastructure provider with a strong data and analytics business, significant capital market capabilities across multiple asset…
GLEIF CEO Stephan Wolf Outlines LEI Strategy Based on Hindsight and Innovation
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) has set strategy that will make the Legal Entity Identifier not only essential to smooth running of capital markets, but also the wider digital economy. Achieving these goals is a matter of hindsight and innovation based on the GLEIF’s decision to drive extended use of the LEI in the private…
Recorded Webinar: Entity identification and client lifecycle management – How financial institutions can drive $4 billion in cost savings
A new model in Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issuance has created significant opportunities for financial institutions to capitalise on their KYC and AML due diligence. By becoming Validation Agents and obtaining LEIs on behalf of their clients, financial institutions can enhance their client onboarding experience, streamline their internal operations, and open the door to new,…
GLEIF LEI Search 2.0 and API Offer Customised, Automated Access to Rich LEI Data
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) has responded to industry demand for customised, automated access to rich LEI data with LEI Search 2.0 and an API that allows third-party developers to automate searches and retrieve open, higher quality LEI data from within their application environments. LEI Search 2.0 expands the number of search parameters available, providing…
DSB Opens First Consultation on UPI Fee Principles
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) opened a first round of industry consultation on fee principles for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) today. The consultation ends on 5 March 2021 and is the first of two consultations before a final report is published in September 2021. The UPI will come into play in 2022 and will…
ANNA and GLEIF Expand ISIN-to-LEI Mapping Service
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has further expanded the ISIN-to-LEI mapping service it provides in conjunction with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to cover ISINs in an additional group of jurisdictions. The mapping service developed collectively by the GLEIF, ANNA and its National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) was launched as a pilot…