Articles by Michael Shashoua
Michael Shashoua: Data Quality Beacon
The trade-off between data sourcing transparency and confidential business interests makes it difficult to pursue higher quality data through cooperative or open efforts. Michael points to an Omgeo initiative that is proving an exception to this rule,…
Crowdsourcing Makes A Giant Leap
The idea of crowdsourcing reference data processing and management work got a big boost this week, with a venture fund and former Thomson Reuters CEO lending their support to provider WorkFusion
LEI Benefits Will Take Longer, Data Provider Exec Says
In Japan, LEI data will eventually work as a common language for counterparty data, according to Denis Sweeney of Interactive Data
BEPS Spreads Tax Data Collection Wider
An international policy forum is working on a project to collect and coordinate pricing data from multiple markets, with the intent of clearing up jurisdictional issues
Xenomorph Adds Validation to TimeScape
The data management services provider now offers a Data Validation Dashboard as part of its TimeScape analytics product
Markit Plans Relaunch of Corporate Actions Service
Markit Corporate Actions will move to a web-based platform, offering more data sourcing flexibility and timelier processing
WorkFusion Gains Funding
Venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures is leading $15 million in funding for the crowdsourcing data operations company, including investment by former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer
Navigating Data Transparency
Data managers should confront the question of how to use new technologies and methods to make data transparent even under proprietary processes and climates
Data Vet Richards Starts New Advisory Firm
Data industry veteran Dale Richards has founded Island 20 Ventures, a Toronto-based advisory firm specializing in financial markets technology, including information products, Big Data, analytics and data management.
Ex-First Derivatives' Richards Starts Advisory Firm
Dale Richards, previously a data management executive and strategist at First Derivatives, has founded Island 20 Ventures, based in Toronto
Finding A Key For Data Quality
In the field of standing settlement instructions, Omgeo appears to have found a way to improve upon data quality by opening sourcing and access to its database
Virtues of Consistency
Philosophers and authors may dismiss consistency as an overrated refuge for unimaginative minds, but when it comes to industrial strength data quality efforts, it proves to be a necessity.
Taxed By Collection
Fatca regulation tax withholding is almost here, and industry experts outlined the burden firms are preparing to bear in a recent SIX Financial Information-sponsored discussion. Michael Shashoua reports on the data considerations and methods raised
Swift's Neutjens Talks Progress For Utility Platform
Over the past year or more, Swift has made major strides in reference data services with its SwiftRef platform. Patrik Neutjens, the organization's head of reference data, speaks with Michael Shashoua about its accomplishments and the work ahead
IRS Fills In Fatca Details
The US Internal Revenue Service has issued a final form for filing under the foreign tax withholding regulation, completed more agreements with foreign entities to enforce the rules and extended a key registration deadline to April 12
Quality's Governing Principles
Data governance efforts, in early stages for many firms, require navigation of the divide between business and IT units, as well as cost, data quality and value concerns. Michael Shashoua reports on a discussion held during a March 6 webcast
Not the Home Stretch
The data management demands facing the industry continue to expand, and the plans and systems available or being devised to deal with them need to grow at the same rate, as ISITC's chair observed at its recent annual conference.
Michael Shashoua: Putting Fatca in Perspective
Firms are thinking about the ways and means of complying with the Fatca foreign tax withholding rules, even with incomplete guidance and preparation, as the key July 1 deadline approaches. Michael considers the permutations for ensuing process…
Markit Readies Swaps Identification for September Launch
Markit plans to expand its RED codes to handle reference requirements set by ISDA for credit default swaps, in an effort to better support the credit event process.
Rimes Welcomes Swinhoe to New Toronto Office
Paul Swinhoe, a business development executive with middle-office and market data experience at several service providers, has joined Rimes Technologies as sales manager in the company's new Toronto office
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation