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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Reference Data Technology special report
June 2013 - sponsored by: Broadridge, Eagle Investment Systems, SmartStream
Solvency II special report
June 2013 - sponsored by: Axiom SL, Morningstar, SIX Financial Information, Thomson Reuters
Risk Waiting
Will concern about reducing corporate actions exposures be enough to push the industry toward advancing the ISO 20022 messaging standard?
Consortium Launches Pre-LEI Data Source
GS1, FIX Protocol Ltd., Tahoe Blue and the Corporation for National Research Initiatives have launched P-lei.org, a project to distribute data for legal entity identifiers issued by pre-local operating units.
IRD Awards 2013: Tim Lind, Thomson Reuters
Tim Lind, global head of middle office, enterprise content at Thomson Reuters speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Philippe Chambadal, SmartStream
Philippe Chambadal, CEO of SmartStream, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Rui Carvalho, S&P Capital IQ
Rui Carvalho, managing director of enterprise solutions at S&P Capital IQ, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
IRD Awards 2013: Bennett Egeth, Broadridge
Bennett Egeth, senior vice president at Broadridge, speaks to Michael Shashoua of Inside Reference Data at the 2013 Inside Reference Data Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis
EDM Council Readies FIBO Specs, Works With Bank of England and Microsoft
The EDM Council and the Object Management Group are preparing to issue specifications for their ontology, which is being aligned with Bank of England templates. The EDM Council has also piloted its data maturity model with Microsoft
IRD's Editor on Collateral Data Growth and Data Governance
The June issue of Inside Reference Data features closer looks at the growth of collateral data and its effects for data managers, as well as developments concerning data governance
S&P Capital IQ Launches Data Cross-Reference
The Business Entity Cross Reference Service, already live in production, covers more than two million entities, and is available through the S&P Capital IQ Xpressfeed platform
Growing Gravity For Collateral and C-Level Execs
As collateral transaction data grows in volume, its importance to data management also grows. Also, C-level data executives are wielding more influence to direct data management methods and trends
Governing Data Governance
High-level data officers are being tasked with development of data governance frameworks. Michael Shashoua hears about some of the methods they are using to set up complete systems.
The Flaws in EDM
Enterprise data management does not provide all the benefits that everyone expects, Nomura's Brian Buzzelli tells Michael Shashoua. Expect to see more outsourcing and cloud, he predicts
IRD's Editor on Collateral Issues
The growth in volume of collateral transaction data means the industry must ramp up technological capabilities for managing this data.
Keeping Up With Collateral
The growth of collateral transactions and data should inspire firms to improve their capabilities for managing collateral data
DTCC, ISITC, Major Firms Plan Collateral Data Processing Improvements
Lessons learned from transaction reporting, fund processing and settlement advances could prove useful in managing the growing trove of data being generated in the collateral space. Michael Shashoua uncovers the issues confronting collateral data…
Michael Shashoua: E.T.—The Extra-Territorial
Extraterritoriality, an idea that seemed alien at first, is rapidly increasing in importance for data management. Michael provides some explanations and considers how this concept may make an impact on multiple functions at financial services firms.
SIX Names New Chairman
Alexandre Zeller, previously CEO of a Swiss unit of HSBC, succeeds Peter Gomez as chairman of SIX, the parent company of SIX Financial Information
IRD's Editor on 'Extraterritoriality'
Reference data professionals are buzzing about "extraterritoriality," the concept of differences between jurisdictions or countries in how they handle new rules and regulations.
It's Not Easy Being Extraterritorial
The concept of extraterritoriality, the differences between national interpretations or iterations of rules and standards, requires firms to redefine it as being the ability to comply in all territories
EDM Driven By More Than Savings, Says Fund Exec
Risk management and business needs are becoming greater reasons for using enterprise data management, said Michael Korby, senior vice president of front-office development at Highbridge Capital Management, speaking at the North American Financial…
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IRD Awards Results
The results of the Inside Reference Data Awards for 2013 were announced at a dinner in New York on May 21