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Recorded Webinar: Data Governance

A-Team Group editor, Sarah Underwood, is joined by Dennis Slattery of EDMworks for a Q&A session to address the following: How to implement better data governance and workflow amidst data inconsistencies and duplication, challenging regulatory demands, organisational overlaps, varied documentation standards, and other challenges. About Dennis Dennis Slattery, CEO of consulting and training firm EDMworks,…

S&P Capital IQ Stands Ready to Fulfil Regulatory Oversight Committee Requirement for LEI Hierarchy Data

S&P Capital IQ is ready to meet the data hierarchy requirements for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that are expected to be set out by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global LEI System towards the end of this year. The company’s offer is based on existing products and can extend beyond LEI hierarchy data…

Bloomberg Hires Richard Robinson to Promote the FIGI

Bloomberg has added former Wipro Technologies executive Richard Robinson to its open symbology team. Robinson was hired this month and will work alongside Chris Pickles to raise awareness of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier, that Bloomberg is promoting as a global standard for securities identification. Robinson has stepped into…

Entity Data Management Handbook

Following on from the success of our Regulatory Data Handbook, A-Team Group is pleased to introduce its new Entity Data Management Handbook which is available for free download. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things entity data: Why Entity Data is important A full review of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) Where they came…

Data Management Summit: Arguing the Case for Shared Services

The A-Team Group Data Management Summit held in London this week opened with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index and a keynote presentation by Nick Murphy, director of consulting at IGATE, on the potential of shared services or utilities for reference data management. Regulatory Data Index The A-Team Regulatory Data Index sponsored by…

Final Call for Input to ESMA Study on a Messaging Protocol for Reporting under MiFIR

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is canvassing market participants’ views on messaging protocols for transaction reporting under the Markets in Financial Investments Regulation (MiFIR) in a questionnaire with a response deadline of March 6, 2015. The questionnaire is part of a study on technical formats for MiFIR commissioned by ESMA and contracted to…

EDM Council Sets Out Progress of FIBO

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council is pushing on with the development of a Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and this week received final approval from the Object Management Group (OMG) for the Foundations element of the ontology. FIBO is an open source, industry standard common language that describes the structure and contractual obligations of…

Chris Pickles Takes a Leading Role in Bloomberg’s FIGI Campaign

Bloomberg is continuing its campaign to make the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), the world’s primary security identifier with plans to push the FIGI through the ISO standardisation process and showcase organisations benefitting from the use of the identifier. The campaign is being led by Chris Pickles, former head…

London Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Solvency II Compliance

Solvency II has been some time in the making, but as deadlines loom for interim requirements in 2015 and full implementation in January 2016, the data management challenges of the regulation must be tackled not only by firms in the insurance industry, which Solvency II seeks to regulate, but also by third-party administrators and asset…

Accuity Repositions Data to Deliver KYC Identifier File

Accuity has repositioned data from its Bankers Almanac payments solution and Know Your Customer (KYC) Due Diligence Data File to deliver a KYC Identifier File that allows Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and Global Intermediary Identification Numbers (GIINs) to be matched to banks’ counterparty records. The KYC Identifier File also provides access to BICS, internal Accuity…