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Michael Shashoua

Michael Shashoua is editor of Inside Reference Data, a role he began in 2011. He joined Incisive Media in 2009 as deputy editor of Sell-Side Technology. His experience covering financial services industry operational issues includes eight years as senior editor of Global Investment Technology, and two years as an editor at The Deal. Shashoua completed a master's degree in Media Management at Fordham University in 2013, and began his career as a reporter and copy editor in local newspapers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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Articles by Michael Shashoua

Data Governance As Leverage

Industry executives are looking to move away from their traditional use of data management resources and methods. Michael Shashoua reports that EDM, centralization and shifts in firms’ cultures are all being considered

Embracing 'Next Best Action' For Data Management

Standard data processing models and tools such as Excel are giving way to greater demand for graphs and more connective and analytical data management methods. Michael Shashoua speaks with Hashmat Rohian, a data scientist for insurer Aviva Canada, about…

Michael Shashoua: Critical Mass

Even as data quality and governance work becomes more demonstrably valuable for firms, the time that has passed since the 2008 events that spurred rules changes could be eroding its momentum. Michael hears professionals’ reasons for staying the course.

DTCC Tests Corporate Actions Service

DTCC has begun testing of Corporate Actions Web, with plans to move all its users to the service by October. DTCC also is promoting greater migration to the ISO 20022 standard for corporate actions

Personnel Choices

Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff

Attention Getters

Around the Toronto Financial Information Summit this week, talk about how to improve data quality and governance included the possibility that a major market blow-up would be required to hasten such efforts

Blaszkowsky Joins State Street

David Blaszkowsky, a data regulation executive at the Office of Financial Research and the US Securities and Exchange Commission in recent years, has been hired as a senior vice president of data governance at State Street

Actionable Material

Data quality, timeliness and standardization have become the most important traits for corporate actions processing. Michael Shashoua hears from industry experts on the challenges these represent

LEI's Big Payoff

While the legal entity identifier is starting to produce value for data management operations, Fatca and BCBS 239 could follow suit in similar fashion

Fatca Drives Data Operations Changes

As a July 1 deadline approaches, it's become evident that the US Fatca tax withholding regulation has driven big changes in data collection and reporting, as the industry works to comply with the new tax withholding rules. Michael Shashoua reports on…

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