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Australia Sees Groundswell in Demand for LEI Registrations
The year 2019/20 saw a doubling of LEI registrations in Australia, according to APIR Systems, a provider of essential infrastructure for the wealth management industry in Australia, including acting as an official registration agent for the issuance of LEIs. Coming into legal force in Australia on October 1, 2019 after numerous postponements, there has been…
ESMA Affirms Importance of Data-Driven Strategy for EU Digital Finance Initiative
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has submitted a response to the European Commission’s (EC) consultation on a new digital finance strategy for the European Union (EU), in which it reiterates the crucial importance of a data-driven financial services sector. Benefits of digitalisation, according to ESMA, would include increased speed,…
GLEIF Deploys Workiva Platform, Expands into North America
The GLEIF Foundation partnered with XBRL International and Workiva in June 2020 to publish its annual report in both human and machine-readable Inline XBRL and HTML format, with GLEIF’s LEI embedded into the financial information. It constitutes only the second official business report globally to automatically link the filing entity to its verified LEI reference…
Recorded Webinar: Adopting Entity Data Hierarchies to Address Holistic Risk Management
Firms across the board are struggling to gain a comprehensive view of their counterparty risk. In the wake of the Credit Crisis, regulators have increased their focus on pushing firms to not only better understand risk exposure, but also be able to provide evidence of the analysis they use to create their view of risk….
Recorded Webinar: Data Standards & Identifiers: Where are they helping and what more can be done?
Beyond regulatory compliance, what are the opportunities for leveraging standards to improve operational efficiencies? Financial institutions are starting to realise there are clear benefits in taking a strategic approach to data standardisation as they move to more data driven approaches which require good quality, accurate data for analytics and AI programmes. This webinar will review…
Debut Virtual Data Management Summit Highlights Industry Agility
In an extraordinary achievement that attracted over 1,000 delegates and well over 20,000 views, A-Team Group’s debut Virtual Data Management Summit went live last week to showcase the most cutting-edge content from an industry that has shown itself to be both resilient and responsive to the unique challenges presented by the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. Focusing…
COVID-19 Sees CUSIP Requests Surge as Corporate Borrowers Seek Liquidity
Request volume for CUSIP’s corporate debt identifiers was up 6% last month, marking a spike of interest as corporate borrowers seek access to liquidity during the challenging climate of COVID-19. The CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for March 2020, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets…
COVID 19: Services Directory
As the coronavirus crisis extends into the medium to long-term, technology vendors and solutions providers are stepping up to the plate with a wide variety of services and support for clients to assist them through the data management challenges presented by the new operational and working environment. Below, you can find these collated into an…
Welcome to DMS Virtual – A Groundbreaking Model for Today’s New Normal
Events have overtaken us this week (so to speak), and while we have put tremendous effort into our Data Management Summit this year, it became apparent that due to health and safety concerns in addition to event attendance restrictions for many participants, our live event will no longer be able to go ahead tomorrow. However,…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Sixth Edition
High-profile and punitive penalties handed out to large financial institutions for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations have catapulted entity data management up the business agenda. So, too, have industry and government reports on the staggering sums of money laundered on a global basis. Less apparent, but equally important, are…