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Webinar Preview: ESG Data Management Challenge of New Sourcing Landscape

Financial institutions face a new set of ESG data management challenges even though data sourcing has become easier as the sustainability sector has matured. While more data is available to firms, thanks to a combination of new reporting regulations and standardisation of disclosure frameworks, the increasing variety of information needed and the volumes in which…

SmartStream Adds Exchange Notification Services to Reference Data Utility

SmartStream Technologies, provider of the Reference Data Utility (RDU), has released an Exchange Notification Service (ENS) designed to track, consolidate and normalise reference data notifications published by exchanges. The service was developed in partnership with clients and extends the services of the RDU, which offers a managed service for vendor-sourced reference data. With more than…

The Hidden Cost of Bad Data – Why Accuracy Pays Off

By Ariel Junqueira-DeGarcia, Strategy and Technology Leader at Broadridge. In the financial world, data is king. But many argue that firms are dangerously reliant on data they inadequately understand, unknowingly wielding a double-edged sword that can just as easily enrich as it can erode. This article pulls back the curtain on the murky world of…

BNP Paribas Becomes First EU G-SIB to Join GLEIF Validation Agent Programme

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out the Global LEI System (GLEIS) with the addition of BNP Paribas as a Validation Agent. The addition of BNP Paribas marks the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) headquartered in the EU to join the Validation Agent programme. Most recently, the GLEIF added Nord…

A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024

A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…

CUSIP Global Services Adds AI Search Functionality to CGS CUSIP Access

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has added AI-powered search functionality to CGS CUSIP Access allowing users to perform advanced searches using plain text and eliminating the need to enter values into separate boxes in an advanced search window. The AI search tool uses a large language model (LLM), the GPT-4 model provided by Microsoft Azure OpenAI…

European Firms Ready for Next Week’s UPI Regulatory Reporting Deadline

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has released data on industry readiness for European Unique Product Identifier (UPI) regulatory reporting requirements that are part of EU EMIR Refit regulations. The EU will implement UPI reporting from 29 April 2024, the second G20 jurisdiction to do so following the US that went live from 29 January 2024,…

Nord vLEI Becomes First European GLEIF Qualified vLEI Issuer

Nord vLEI has become the first European-based verifiable LEI (vLEI) issuer qualified by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Nord vLEI is a subsidiary of NordLEI, the leading LEI issuer in Scandinavia and eighth largest globally, with more than 165,000 LEIs issued since 2014. The vLEI is a digitised organisational identity that meets global…

DSB Announces 2024 Consultation Schedule for OTC Derivatives Reference Data Services

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has outlined its 2024 consultation plan focusing on the OTC International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), Unique Product Identifier (UPI), and Classification Financial Instrument (CFI) services. The consultation paper will be released on 30 April 2024, allowing for feedback until 31 May 2024, and concluding with a Final Report on 16…

GLEIF Names Certizen Technology as China’s Second LEI Validation Agent

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has named Certizen Technology, a Hong Kong-based provider of digital identity and digital certificate solutions, as the latest organisation approved as a Validation Agent in the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System. With the support of GLEIF and the People’s Bank of China, Certizen will use the LEI…