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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

Andrew’s Blog – The Inside Track on LEI

I love to be on the inside track, probably because it happens so rarely, and so I am sorely tempted to answer the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) call for volunteers to participate in the private-sector LEI advisory panel that the industry group announced earlier this week. In fact, I haven’t felt quite so tempted since one of our reference data friends suggested I run for the managing directorship of the EDM Council.

But in that case – and most likely in this FSB one – my initial enthusiasm is dashed by two factors: 1) Grandad’s wise words (“Never volunteer for anything, son.”) and, 2) the use of the word ‘Expert’.

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12 Jan 2012

Opinion: Size Isn’t Everything – Handling Big Data Variety

By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services

In my last post I briefly touched on the subject of unstructured data and schema-less repositories. In this instalment, I’d like to focus on this topic in a bit more detail, and look at the Variety aspect of Big Data from several angles.

Variety refers to various degrees of structure (or lack thereof) within the source data. And while much attention has been given to loosely-structured web data – whether sourced from the web itself (social media, etc.) or from web server logs – I’d like to turn to the topic of unstructured data within the firm’s firewall. I’d also like to focus on the challenge of linking diverse data with various levels of structure, rather than discussing the storage and analysis of unstructured data as a standalone problem.

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10 Jan 2012

Andrew’s Blog – Those Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Appointments in Full

Before we were rudely interrupted by the Christmas holidays – lovely, thanks, and you? – we were speculating about the emerging structure and population of the executive ranks within president David Craig’s new Financial & Risk operating unit of Thomson Reuters, in essence the successor to the former Thomson Reuters Markets. At least some dust has settled since Craig’s December 19 publication of an organisation chart for his group, so we are able to offer some of the highlights.

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05 Jan 2012

Andrew’s Blog – The New Thomson Reuters Starts to Take Shape

More on this, but not much more.

As we suggested yesterday, Peter Moss appears to have taken on leadership of a new group our correspondents are calling Trading. At a guess, this would seem to encompass the former Enterprise delivery systems and Sales & Trading transactional and data systems for, erm, traders.

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21 Dec 2011

Andrew’s Blog - They Thought It Was All Over: It Is Now

Not the World Cup final. Reuters.

When CEO Tom Glocer was shifted out a couple of weeks back, many pundits declaimed the end of an era. As Thomson Corp. moved in to put its own people in high places – the second such move following the removal of Markets head Devin Wenig in the summer – many suggested that Reuters finally would be subsumed into the corporation that acquired it four years ago.

Given the number of Reuters people left in place, holding real responsibility, doing real jobs, I didn’t buy that. But I do now.

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20 Dec 2011

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