Articles by Michael Shashoua
Corporate Actions: Off and Running -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on July 17, 2013 to discuss how financial services firms are managing the challenges of upgrades to messaging standards and increases in volumes and types of corporate actions events.
IRD's Editor on Data Cost Messages From Toronto
Firms have to muster the will and resources to act on data management improvements before advancing innovations, or even compliance efforts, according to several speakers and panelists at the Toronto Financial Information Summit on July 10.
The Road To Value From Data
Costs and resources for data management take precedence in reference data, so firms must develop a palette of strategies, centralization, sourcing and prioritization to make the most of what they have to work with
Toronto FIS Live: Economic Outlook For US and Canada
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the address by John Clinkard, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Canada, at the Toronto Financial Information Summit on July 10
IRD's Editor on July Issue Features
Solvency II and Fatca regulation developments, along with the applications of metadata figure prominently in industry discussions reported in the July 2013 issue of Inside Reference Data
Toronto FIS Live: Executing Successful Data Strategy
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter from the morning keynote of the Toronto Financial Information Summit on July 10.
Information Mosaic Names Chief Revenue Officer
Philip Hogan, most recently an Asia-Pacific executive at DST, joins the company in a newly created role
Where the Data Buzz Is
Data management developments and discussions breathed life into last month's Sifma Tech Expo.
IRD's Editor on Basel's Mixed Messages
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's latest guidance on Basel III capital adequacy requirements finds the regulator suddenly getting strict.
HSBC, Citi Contend With Standards Variations
Data management professionals continue to face multiple data standards that prove challenging when trying to achieve consistency. Michael Shashoua explores how semantic data is proving useful to aggregating data generated under these different standards.
JP Morgan Hires Uritz for Risk Assessment
Cortney Uritz, previously a data management project manager at UBS, has joined JP Morgan Chase as a risk assessment project manager.
Osborne Swaps UBS for HSBC
Jacklyn Osborne, previously global head of client data policy at UBS, has joined HSBC as Americas chief data officer.
Fatca-Fueled Shuffle
The US foreign tax collection regulation is beginning to drive firms to change data documentation and management procedures. Michael Shashoua audits the developments
Reading the Basel Tea Leaves
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's latest guidance on the Basel III capital adequacy rules seems to contradict the tone of past statements
Michael Shashoua: Game of Global Communication
Risk is a growing concern for corporate actions, but will that be enough to push through improved messaging standards? Michael thinks this should translate into a consensus for action.
Regulators Propose Added Basel III Guidance
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the author of the Basel III capital adequacy regulation, has issued proposals concerning leverage ratios, collateral and derivatives exposures
IRD's Editor on Metadata
Metadata is emerging as an important part of data management models.
RBC Exec: Sharing and Collaboration Are Keys to Mapping Data
Donna Rudnicki, who rejoined the firm as head of data management in July after serving as an outside project consultant, has developed a data road map to set up structured data governance and cross-functional work.
Maximizing Metadata
The concept of metadata is emerging in importance for financial services industry firms' data management operations. It's a field that could produce great benefits for managing risk through more accurate management of data
UBS, Bank of America Find Value in DMM Model
Using the EDM Council's Data Management Maturity (DMM) model, UBS Securities and Bank of America have been able to improve on their data governance and data management, officials say
BNY Mellon Exec Predicts 'Global Fatca'
Amy Harkins, a senior vice-president and managing director at BNY Mellon, points to discussions about a "Global Fatca" sparked by various nations' responses to the US foreign tax compliance regulation
Markit Evaluates Corporate Actions Service Acquisition
The data services provider will be asking users of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service, just acquired from DTCC, what new data sets and coverage should be added
IRD's Editor on Risk and the Drive to ISO 20022
With risk management being the biggest driver for corporate actions processing improvements, that ought to translate to support for the ISO 20022 messaging standard