Opinion: 20 Points on the LEI Initiative

By Allan D. Grody, President, Financial InterGroup Holdings

1. There was a rush to pass legislation in the US after the onset of the financial crisis

2. The legislation was written piecemeal as you would expect since the financial industry itself is “piecemeal”, that translates into silos of business and piecemeal/silos of understanding

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04 May 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – Risk Architectures R Us

For those of you who missed last month’s seminar in London on approaches to risk data, fret no more: We will be continuing the debate next Thursday in a webinar with our friends from Lloyds Bank, Sybase and Fidessa; sign up here, it’s free, and it’ll also give you a flavour of what we have lined up at our May 22 Data Management Summit.

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03 May 2012
 
Opinion: Taking Stock – The True Cost of Data

By David Renn, Principal Consultant, Citisoft

The size of the data spend in financial services is astounding, but even more incredible is the lack of transparency and knowledge around these costs. Citisoft believes that the true cost of ownership of data is often unknown, inaccurate or poorly calculated. At a time when regulatory, client due diligence and P&L considerations are exerting increasing pressure upon the data management function, Investment management firms need a structured method for auditing their data costs and calculating their full cost of data ownership.

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30 Mar 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)

This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC Financial Insights’ Matt Clay and Deloitte’s Julian Leake – to talk about what’s emerging as our industry’s thorniest problem: how to extract data required to meet the reporting needs of senior management and regulators from the “spaghetti crow’s nest” of data repositories and plumbing connections that is today’s financial markets enterprise.

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24 Mar 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – LEIs: From Inspiration to Perspiration

Back on the long and winding road towards the introduction of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) and the Financial Stability Board has delivered on its promise of appointing "a small number of experts to a private sector panel advising an FSB LEI Expert Group of key stakeholders from the global regulatory community taking forward work on the LEI initiative".

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07 Feb 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – The OTC Derivatives Case for LEIs

Hot on the heels of the Financial Stability Board’s creation of expert panels to advise on the development of legal entity identifiers (LEI) (see more here), international regulators IOSCO and the Bank for International Settlements this week weighed in to stress the importance of LEIs to the ongoing efforts to boost transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace.

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19 Jan 2012
 
Q&A: Matthew Bastian of CUSIP Global Services on the End-Game for LEI

The regulatory push for an international Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is entering a crucial period with implementation due to begin in some regions this year. Reference Data Review spoke to Matthew Bastian from CUSIP Global Services to find out what to expect in 2012.

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16 Jan 2012
 

 
 

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