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LEI Benefits Emerge As Implementation Progresses
The legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative is gaining strength with recognizable data quality benefits, greater awareness and participation, and more complete standards guidelines. Michael Shashoua reports on how all these developments are coming…
LEI: Looking for the Horizon -- Webcast
On September 18, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about progress in implementation of the legal entity identifier and the work to be done to complete the LEI system
EFIS 2014: Data Sophistication, Volumes Drive Users to Virtual Tech
To get the most out of increasingly sophisticated and voluminous datasets, firms must adopt a flexible approach to investing in technology infrastructure, according to panelists at this week's European Financial Information Summit.
Quest For Data Quality
Pursuing data quality requires consideration of big data, data tools and resources, error correction and getting various interests to work together. Recent Inside Reference Data stories explore all these factors.
Choosing Tools and Setting Models
Efforts to raise data quality require both coordination of data processes and resources, and clearer definition of expectations in data modeling and contracting with service providers. Michael Shashoua reports on data managers' insights about how to…
GLEIF Sets Fees For LEI Licensing
The foundation, which is responsible for legal entity identifier infrastructure and principles, is relying on the licensing fees to fund the central operating unit administering LEIs
The Value Of Sharing
Collaboration and cooperation, along with openness to innovative ways of handling data, are valuable assets that data operations professionals should be willing to use.
Data Governance As Leverage
Industry executives are looking to move away from their traditional use of data management resources and methods. Michael Shashoua reports that EDM, centralization and shifts in firms’ cultures are all being considered
LEI's Big Payoff
While the legal entity identifier is starting to produce value for data management operations, Fatca and BCBS 239 could follow suit in similar fashion
Securing LEI Success
From more regulatory mandates to standardized data quality checks, there was no shortage of suggestions of ways to ensure the success of the LEI project at the North American Financial Information Summit, writes Nicholas Hamilton
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,…
Choosing Data Governance Battles
New regulations and pressure to reduce costs are creating greater awareness of the importance of effective data governance. However, careful planning is still needed to win support for projects and to ensure their success, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
Latency Priorities Shift from Speed to Predictability
As latency improvements become harder—and more expensive—to achieve, firms are weighing the cost-benefit analysis of pursuing ever-decreasing latency advantages, and placing more emphasis on leveraging existing investments in low-latency infrastructures…
Latency: From Sprint to Survival Course webcast
Inside Market Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 28, 2013 to discuss how firms are focusing on turning latency reduction to cost reduction as the cost of achieving meaningful latency increments increases exponentially.
SocGen Exec: Regulatory Conflict Causing Confusion at Banks
Panelists at the European Trading Architecture Summit (ETAS) in London yesterday said that the extra-territorial reach of US regulation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act and its associated rules, means that banks in other countries are facing serious issues of…
CIBC's Maden: Vendors Must Find Holistic Approach
Vendors must come up with ways to ease the pressure on financial services firms, allowing them to focus on their core responsibilities, rather than worrying about their technology, according to Francis Maden, executive director at Toronto-based…
March 2013 LEI Deadline Tough to Meet, Sifma Panelists Say
Robin Doyle, a senior vice president at JP Morgan Chase, remarked that the legal entity identifier (LEI) deadline may be tough for the industry to meet, as Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua relates in this audio commentary
FSB Takes Another Step on LEI, But Administration Questions Linger
The approval of the ISO standard for the LEI moved much faster than most ISO standards, say industry observers. The FSB issued its LEI report to the G-20, setting a structure for the global LEI system, but the report leaves unanswered questions about…
Data Readiness Under Dodd-Frank
Inside Reference Data gathered a panel of leading industry experts to discuss the current state of regulation and standards readiness in the data industry. Dodd-Frank and the LEI loomed large in importance, as Michael Shashoua reports, but business…
LEI Makes Progress, But Administration Questions Linger
The approval of the ISO standard for the LEI moved much faster than most ISO standards, say industry observers, but the FSB still has to issue some decisions on who will administer the LEI
