Earlier this month I noted the political machinations taking place up on Capitol Hill, as various candidates jostle for the position of head of the Office of Financial Research (see here), which is charged under the Dodd-Frank Act with collecting and storing financial services data for the monitoring of systemic risk. There are a number of candidates rumoured to be up for the role of gatekeeper of the US market’s instrument and entity data, including current Treasury officials, academics that have been involved in the lobbying thus far and a few industry bods from the vendor and market practitioner communities.

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