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Axioma Partners OpenFin to Optimise User Experience, Workflows and App Deployment
Axioma, a provider of services including multi-asset enterprise risk management, portfolio construction, performance attribution, regulatory reporting and custom index design to portfolio managers, has partnered OpenFin to integrate its axiomaBlue technology layer with the OpenFin operating system for desktop interoperability. The result is designed to be a combined technology stack that provides front and back-end…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Fifth Edition
Welcome to the fifth edition of A-Team Group’s Entity Data Management Handbook, sponsored for the fourth year running by entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company. The past year has seen a crackdown on corporate responsibility for financial crime – with financial firms facing draconian fines for non-compliance and the very real…
UK Regulators Eye Up Digital Regulatory Reporting
UK regulators are stepping up their efforts to digitise regulatory reporting over the next few years. The changes the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) propose – and which are being developed jointly with the industry – promise a transformation in the way data flows between supervisors and financial services firms….
DSB Reports Growing Industry Interest in Gaining Added Value from its ISIN Allocation Service
The results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB) first industry consultation in 2019 show users of the bureau moving on from initial implementation issues around the DSB ISIN allocation and maintenance service, and expressing growing interest in efficiency and gaining added value from the service. The consultation, now in its third year, closed on June…
Three Big Banks Sign on to Operational Risk Data Sharing Platform
In mid-June, Acin – a data standards firm for operational risk and controls – announced that Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank and Société Générale had joined its collaboration community, the Operational Risk Defence Network Model. Their arrival brings the total number of tier one banks working with Acin to 12. The name of the company,…
FSB Suggests Reducing Cost of LEIs in Response to Review Finding LEI Coverage too Low
The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) latest review of the Legal Entity Identifier, a Thematic Review on Implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), offers an ‘I said so’ to the sceptics, but also recommendations that should benefit firms using the LEI and encourage further take-up that will drive data standards, quality and accuracy across the…
GLEIF Partners XBRL to Offer Benefits of Embedding LEIs in Machine-Readable Financial Documents
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to add use cases of the LEI beyond regulatory compliance, this time through a partnership with XBRL International that allows LEIs to be embedded in digital, machine-readable financial documents. Demonstrating the partnership, the GLEIF has published its 2018 annual report in human and machine-readable Inline XBRL and…
An Update on the LEI – Where Are we Now?
There are mixed views in our industry about the success of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – questions about lapsed identifiers, comments on a slow rate of adoption, and calls for more regulatory mandates requiring use of the LEI. There are also some tremendous successes in countries such as India, which is not a member…
Derivatives Service Bureau Calls for Industry Input to 2019 Consultation
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened its 2019 consultation with a focus on getting industry feedback on operations such as data submission enhancements, services such as data flow rationalisation, technical issues including infrastructure and workflows, and legal aspects including the fee survey and user agreement forum. The consultation is seeking responses from both direct…
FSB Names Derivatives Service Bureau as Sole Provider of the Unique Product Identifier
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has designated the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) as the sole service provider for the future Unique Product Identifier (UPI) system. The DSB will also be the operator of the UPI reference data library and will start to issue UPIs once their code and reference data are set as international data…