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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…

Bloomberg Promotes FIGI as Primary Global Security Identifier

Bloomberg plans to rename its Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID) as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) with a view to making it the world’s primary standard for securities identification ahead of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN). Bloomberg’s move follows last week’s release by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) of an update to…

Sun Street Taking a Different Approach to Data Governance

With an increasing industry focus on data governance, one vendor has been taking a different approach to managing data quality from a business point-of-view by providing exceptions workflow, a range of data enquiry tools, and ‘what-if’ scenarios for data sourcing, all of which sit on top of a financial institutions’ existing data architecture. Sun Street…

Anna Updates ISIN Standard and Combines ISO Financial Standards to Develop Centralised Data Hub

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (Anna) has released an update of ISO 6166, the standard for the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), that extends coverage of instrument types to reflect regulatory developments in capital markets by including exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, as well as structured products. The Anna Service Bureau, which is supported…

LEI Foundation Fixes Fees to be Paid by LOUs to Fund Global LEI System

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has fixed the licence fee that Local Operating Units (LOUs) must pay to the foundation for each LEI they issue at $20 a year. It has also introduced a member credit fee of $10 per LEI that LOUs must pay to the foundation to supplement funding of initial…