RDR-Counterparty and Entity Data

Swift Struggles to Stay in the Game as FSB Favours Federated Approach to LEI

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has veered away from existing plans for the infrastructure that will support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), proposing a federated model for the distribution and registration of LEI numbers rather than a single and central global registration authority.

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03 May 2012

US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets

The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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24 Apr 2012

Efama Launches Complaint About S&P ISIN Pricing in Switzerland

The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (Efama) complaint against Standard & Poor’s practice of making end users of its International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) in Switzerland pay a licence charge and fees for the numbers is in the hands of the Swiss competition authority Wettbewerbskommission (Weko). A small scale dispute, perhaps, but one that could escalate if ISIN users in the US and Asia take up the case against S&P’s ISIN charges and if ISINs are considered as instrument identifiers by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) after it has finalised the structure and infrastructure of legal entity identifiers (LEIs).

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18 Apr 2012

State Street Offers Entity Exposure Monitoring Across Asset Classes

State Street’s Entity Exposure Monitor Service went live this week, giving asset owners and managers a view of how much financial exposure they have to each legal entity they do business with or have in their portfolios. As well as being available immediately, the service plays into forthcoming US and European regulation on legal entity identifiers (LEI), with State Street saying it will be able to morph its identifiers into those required by regulators once regulation is finalised.

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30 Mar 2012

Fixed Income Connectivity Group Extends Work to Cover Cash Bonds

The investment banking community’s Fixed Income Connectivity Working Group (FICWG) that last year created best practice recommendations for using the FIX protocol in electronic trading of interest rate swaps (IRS) and credit default swaps (CDS) is pushing its open standards initiative into electronic trading of cash fixed income products.

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14 Mar 2012

CFTC Sets Schedule to Find Provider of Interim Compliant Identifiers

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is pressing on with its plans to identify swap counterparties in record keeping and swaps data reporting with a call to industry participants to submit their interest in becoming the source for identifiers.

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13 Mar 2012

InterGroup and Semandex Counter FSB Suggestions on LEI Technicalities

This week’s flurry of activity around the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) includes not only recommendations on the identifier and related reference data attributes from the expert group of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), but also counter-proposals reiterating former ideas from industry development company Financial InterGroup and semantic software specialist Semandex Networks.

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09 Mar 2012

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