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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Standardizing SDRs and CCPs
Among debates and discussions at Sibos in Toronto, industry players considered how to manage OTC derivatives data through central counterparties and swap data repositories
Informatica Adds Bloomberg Data
Data integration provider adds a key source to its libraries, along with XML conversion capability
Partnership Increases Processing Power for NYSE Data
Microsoft and MDX Technology, through the MDXT ConnectExcel tool, have partnered with NYSE Technologies to make use of greater Excel program capacity
Sorting Through Sibos Alphabet Soup
Along with LEI, Sibos participants contend with a tangle of regulatory and standards initiatives that some say clouds the industry's ability to reach common ground
Sibos 2011: LEI Implementation's Ripple Effect
At Sibos in Toronto, Tony Freeman, director of industry relations at Omgeo, gives his take on the unexpected ripple effects of the implementation of LEI
XBRL Begins to Catch on in Japan
Tokyo markets are sorting out accounting issues and other limits encountered by the data format, with an eye toward compatibility with international reporting standards
Sibos 2011: Bringing SSI Onto ISO 20022
Genevy Dimitrion, immediate past chair of ISITC, notes progress bringing the SSI [standard settlement instructions] standards onto ISO 20022
Sibos 2011: Increasing Importance of Efficiency
At Sibos in Toronto, Phil Lynch, president and CEO of Asset Control, speaks about reference data issues surfacing at the conference, and how the economic downturn has increased the importance of efficiency in financial firms' operational equations
Sibos 2011: LEI Role in Bringing on New Clients
Tim Lind, global head of strategy for enterprise content at Thomson Reuters, discusses the growth of the company's legal entity solutions, and how they are applied
Asian Markets Confront Data Centralization Issue
Financial firms and their service providers look for ways to strike a balance between centralization and localization of reference data to attain benefits of centralizing despite barriers of local market differences in data
Pricing Leans on Partnerships for Accuracy
Panelists at the Tokyo Financial Information Summit found that getting accurate prices in emerging markets depends on collaboration to determine what factors are determining prices and how
Tokyo Diary 4
Foreign data vendors should heed centralization challenges when trying to enter the Japanese market
Multiple Sources Increase Pricing Transparency Challenges
Icap business development manager recaps discussion of pricing challenges in the Tokyo market, following Tokyo Financial Information Summit
Tokyo Diary 3
Discussions at today's Tokyo Financial Information Summit covered data management challenges in the Japanese markets
Tokyo Diary 2
In Tokyo for this week's Financial Information Summit, Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua looks at how the country's March disaster is reshaping business continuity planning. This is a second entry of a diary about Tokyo data and market…
Regulation & Standards special report
September 2011 - sponsored by: Avox, CUSIP Global Services, SIX Telekurs, Standard & Poor's
Tokyo Diary 1
Leading up to Incisive Media's Tokyo Financial Information Summit this week, Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua looks at a few basics for data users and market participants