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Recorded Webinar: The opportunities and challenges of open source symbology
Open source symbology initiatives that offer free access to unique identifiers designed to help financial institutions manage information from financial instruments to events and people are emerging in capital markets. Their aim is to overcome the complexity of managing multiple vendor and proprietary identifiers, and deliver a single open identifier set that can simplify data…
Regulatory Data Handbook – Fourth Edition
Need to know all the essentials about the regulations impacting data management? Welcome to the Fourth edition of our A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook which provides all the essentials about regulations impacting data management. A-Team’s series of Regulatory Data Handbooks are a great way to see at-a-glance: All the regulations that are impacting data management today A…
Recorded Webinar: Approaches to data quality
Underpinning all data management initiatives is the fundamental need to get data quality right. Poor data quality can be costly, impact customer service, lead to errors in risk management and regulatory reporting, and more. So, how can you improve data quality? How can you use rules, standardisation and technology to make improvements? And how is…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II Update: Are we effectively meeting the regulatory data requirement?
Nine months on from the January 2016 Solvency II compliance deadline, insurance firms and asset managers should have satisfactory responses to the regulation in place. But how effectively are they meeting the regulatory data requirement for the look-through and reporting elements of the regulation, and how best can they achieve not only compliance, but also…
Dates for your Diary – Data Management Review Events
As the summer season comes to an end and holiday makers return to their desks, here at Data Management Review we are working on an exciting programme of activities that we would like to invite you to take part in. We start the autumn season with a number of topical webinars covering issues including client…
Recorded Webinar: Implications of MiFID II for Data Management
MiFID II is shaping up to be one of the biggest regulations to impact the financial industry. While much of the regulation focuses on trading, there are many implications for data management. The webinar will explore issues effecting data management, including extended coverage of instruments and trading venues, new data fields, the mandate to use…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Second Edition
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business…
Bloomberg Opens Website Dedicated to the Financial Instrument Global Identifier and Adds API
Bloomberg continues to promote industry use of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), a free and open data standard for financial instrument identification, through the introduction of OpenFIGI.com and OpenFIGI API. The OpenFIGI.com website provides access to tools for identifying, mapping and requesting FIGI datasets, while the OpenFIGI API allows mapping from third-party identifiers to…
The FIGI Moves Forward Via Inclusion in ISO 20022 Messaging Standard
The open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), is coming closer to being a primary security identifier following its inclusion in the ISO 20022 external code set for financial instrument identification and its formal approval as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG). The identifier is also starting…
Publishing Reference Data in a Post-MiFIR World
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team One area where a delay in implementing MiFIR would allow market participants and regulators much needed time to sort out vital details is the area of reference data publication. ESMA has made it clear that, in…