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Quality Time for Counterparty Data
A recent report by an international group of market supervisors has expressed concern about firms’ ability to report on their counterparties. Why does this area of data management remain so challenging and what should firms do to a get a handle on it,…
SIX Chooses Avox to Map LEIs to Securities Database
A new partnership between the two data vendors means SIX will be able to provide entity-level data to its clients, based on instrument-level requests
Fatca special report
December 2013 - sponsored by: Avox, a DTCC Company, Noetic Partners, SIX Financial Information
Europe's Build-Up to Basel III
The European Union’s Capital Requirements Directive IV will implement Basel III proposals across the continent when it comes into force at the beginning of next year. With firms likely to do much of their risk-modeling internally, the demands on data…
Fox Swaps Interactive Data for Avox
Tim Fox has left Interactive Data to take up the role of product manager at Avox
IRD Awards Results
The results of the Inside Reference Data Awards for 2013 were announced at a dinner in New York on May 21
Legal Entity Identifiers special report
March 2013 - sponsored by: Alacra, Avox, a DTCC Company, CUSIP Global Services, Kingland Systems, Thomson Reuters, SIX Financial Information
Regulation Drives 25% Increase In Avox Entity Validation
The counterparty data vendor says the number of entities it has validated in the past 12 months has increased by a quarter to 1,053,085, as firms seek to comply with new data-intensive regulatory initiatives
Crawling Before Walking
Moving forward with the idea of coordinating the legal entity identifier (LEI) with other key securities codes first requires tying up some loose ends on LEI implementation
Out With The Old, in With The New
Stories covering AIFMD, IFRS 13, phase-out of old data management processes, JP Morgan's data restructuring and possible open source LEI all point to key changes that have happened in the past month for the industry
The Hub of the Matter: Ken Price Interview
After leading Avox for 10 years, in December, Ken Price left the company he co-founded. He tells Nicholas Hamilton about spotting a gap in the industry, building up a respected data company and his new job working for a start-up
Ken Price Joins Strevus
The Avox co-founder will work as vice president, sales, for the San Francisco-based start-up, which provides a collaborative data platform
Open Source LEI Data Model Launches
Element 22, in collaboration with several industry firms, has launched the Fimod (φmod) Open Source Project, an open-source model for the legal entity identifier intended to help promote LEI adoption
Ex-Avox CEO Planning Next Move
Ken Price, who left Avox in December, says he is in talks about an executive role with a new San Francisco-based technology company
Davies Takes Over Avox With Core Focus
Mark Davies, an executive at the DTCC, has succeeded former CEO Ken Price at the DTCC-owned reference data provider
Nord LB Exec: Use Agile Development To Manage Uncertainty Of Regulations
An executive from the German bank told delegates at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit that agile software development methodologies may be the best way to prepare for new regulations which are still being developed
Omgeo Adds Legal Entity Data To Alert Database
The addition of 23 new legal entity data fields to the database of settlement and account instructions is intended to enable investment managers and broker/dealers to better understand and track underlying legal entities for each counterparty
IRD Awards Winners Announced
Inside Reference Data announced the winners of its 2012 awards in New York on May 22.
Following Cusip’s Arrow
Strapline: Interview With
Regulation & Standards special report
September 2011 - sponsored by: Avox, CUSIP Global Services, SIX Telekurs, Standard & Poor's