Articles by Michael Shashoua
New Urgency For Data Aggregation
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has established a timeline for meeting new data aggregation and reporting standards for risk management—and this action should get big firms' attention
Does One Data Silo Fit All?
Centralization of data across silos has moved to the forefront of risk management efforts in financial services. Michael Shashoua explores the parts data timeliness, transparency and standards are playing in organizing and centralizing data
New Alliance Calls For ISO 15022 Phase-Out
Several investment firms and service providers are presenting a business case for completing the industry's migration to the ISO 20022 messaging standard for corporate actions
Regulatory Reckoning
Basel III rules aren't being implemented quickly enough to meet January 2013 deadline, but what does that mean?
JPMorgan Backs Swift's MyStandards
Firm's payments business has begun making the application available to its clients, in what looks like a prelude to securities units also doing so
Innovation Revs Up
Take a look beyond a list of acronym-named regulations to the innovations and reconsidered management approaches in reference data, as presented and discussed at EFIS and reported by Inside Reference Data
Barclays Hires Bannocks
Christopher Bannocks, previously head of enterprise data management at Nomura International, has joined Barclays as global head of reference data
Divining Downstream Data Flows
Data managers are considering how to best and most accurately handle distribution of varied types of reference data. Michael Shashoua heard from financial firms and their providers on the challenges they are seeing and what course they are taking
Fenergo Adds Auto-Classification to Fatca Service
The lifecycle management systems provider expects a 60% reduction in Fatca filing efforts through use of its compliance service
Credit Suisse CIO: Tap Unmeasured Data For Investment Advantages
Credit Suisse’s Adam Broun tells Michael Shashoua about his approach to demonstrating the need to build data management technology within a firm
Citi Readies Corporate Actions Data Service
Event Master Central, a new service from the bank's asset servicing unit, will begin its roll-out in selected markets
EDM Council Tackles Data Quality
The industry association has begun collecting feedback on data quality requirements set out in Basel III regulation, to plan a data quality initiative
Michael Shashoua: Channeling the Data Deluge
Considering internet innovation in the context of financial industry data management reveals the scope of reference data’s future. Michael identifies the data explosion and a Swift format change as examples to watch.
You’re Free to Have LEIs, But Not Free of Charge
The costs inherent in implementing the legal entity identifier and new regulatory measures may in fact be an investment in preventing more elephants from entering the proverbial room
MoneyMate Solvency II Offering Reduces Permission Tedium
The investment data management services provider is ready to roll out a reporting utility that manages the multiple permissions needed for handling Solvency II compliance data
Credit Suisse's Broun Talks Data as Strategic Asset
Michael Shashoua speaks with Adam Broun of Credit Suisse on the ways his firm thinks about leveraging data as a strategic asset, at the European Financial Information Summit in London
EFIS Live: Putting the LEI in Place
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live from London via Twitter feed on a panel discussion at the European Financial Information Summit on September 18 about issues concerning implementation of the legal entity identifier. Panelists…
Markit To Distribute Euroclear Bond Data
The data provider expects to begin distributing Euroclear's Eurobond reference data at the end of this year or in early 2013
Innovation in Unexpected Places
Changes to the standard for standing settlement instructions reflect advances in online communications and media in the broader world
Swift Promotes New Settlement Instructions Format
The MT 670 and MT 671 formats for sending and receiving standing settlement instructions (respectively) are expected to fully replace the MT 074 broadcast format by November 2013
MoneyMate Hires Schwarz For North American Sales
Jason Schwarz, whose experience includes reference data sales roles at Moody's and Standard & Poor's, joins MoneyMate as senior vice president
SIX Valordata Completes XSP Services
Corporate actions systems provider XSP has integrated SIX Financial Information's Valordata feed into its v5 and XSPRisa services, providing a complete reference for users as a result
Clearstream Elevates Gruber, Kracke
Martina Gruber will now lead sales, relationship management, customer service and marketing, and Berthold Kracke will now lead risk management, compliance, finance and controls at the German central securities depository