Following the announcement earlier in the week that entity data vendor CounterpartyLink and SmartCo have integrated their offerings (see 
Given the intense focus on counterparty risk in the post-Lehman world, it is no surprise that various members of the vendor community are teaming together to tackle the entity data space. One such partnership has resulted in the integration of EDM vendor SmartCo’s DataHub solution with CounterpartyLink’s issuer, client and counterparty data. James Redfern, head of sales and marketing at CounterpartyLink, explains that the two vendors first got talking about the solution through a mutual client and things progressed from there.
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As part of its drive to compel financial services firms to provide more transparency into their data, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has confirmed this week that it will require UK firms to publish information on how they handle complaints. According to the regulator, this will help people see how firms are performing in this area and to drive up complaints handling standards across the industry. It will also pose another data challenge for firms already facing new requirements around risk data reporting and single customer view (SCV) reforms (see here).
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