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Banks Must Strengthen Data Management to Meet ESG Regulations

Europe’s banks must get their data management structures in place if they are to meet anticipated rules for identifying and mitigating ESG risks. ESG cannot be a mere afterthought in lenders’ risk management protocols if they are to meet anticipated new regulations, and that can be best achieved through careful data management, said Volker Lainer,…

The Challenge of Data Integration in a Multiple Data Source World

By Inesa Smigola, Head of Presales, EMEA and APAC at Xceptor. Financial institutions have a growing data challenge – ever increasing data volumes, much of it unstructured, multiple data sources, and hugely varied data formats and structures. Across this is the additional challenge of inconsistent data quality according to data source and format– an Excel…

A Dive into the Detail of the Financial Data Transparency Act’s Data Standards Requirements

As the June 2024 deadline looms for US regulators within the scope of the Financial Data Transparency Act (FTDA) to provide joint rules on data standards and reporting formats, the question of what these standards and formats will be remains open. Front runners are the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL),…

Firms in the US Prepare to Meet Compliance Date for UPI in Regulatory Reporting

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has released figures indicating industry readiness for the first jurisdictional compliance date for the inclusion of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) in regulatory reporting in the US on 29 January 2024. The US is the first jurisdiction to start UPI reporting in G20 derivatives markets with EU EMIR Refit regulations…

Encompass Plans Corporate Digital Identity Platform Following Acquisition of CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC

Encompass Corporation, a provider of real-time digital Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles, has acquired CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC from ING to develop a platform that solves the critical challenge of identification and verification of corporate and institutional clients. ING will be a stakeholder and development partner to Encompass and will use the platform in the…

Stephan Wolf Steps Down from Role of GLEIF CEO in June 2024

Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), will step down from the role on 24 June 2024 after a decade of leading the foundation from its start-up phase to the growing organisation it is today. In a post on LinkedIn, Wolf writes: “After a decade of incredible experiences and achievements, I…

DTIF Partners DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to Add Crypto Risk Metrics to Digital Token Identifiers

The Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF), created by Etrading Software to provide ISO standard identifiers for digital assets based on open data principles, has reached agreement with DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to display a crypto risk metrics score on Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs) for commonly traded tokens. The metric score, combined with the DTI standard,…

Solidatus Adds Artefact to Partner Portfolio

Solidatus has added Artefact, a data analytics and AI services consultancy specialising in helping organisations deliver measurable value from data, to its partner portfolio. The partnership is expected to simplify data lineage and data management processes for customers in the financial services sector and extend Solidatus’ reach to new financial services customers needing to build…

Recorded Webinar: How to automate entity data management and due diligence to ensure efficiency, accuracy and compliance

Requesting, gathering, analysing and monitoring customer, vendor and partner entity data is time consuming, and often a tedious manual process. This can slow down customer relationships and expose financial institutions to risk from inaccurate, incomplete or outdated data – but there are solutions to these problems. This webinar will consider the challenges of sourcing and…

DSB Forms Governance Advisory Committee for ISIN and UPI Services

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has formed a Governance Advisory Committee (GAC) to provide additional industry guidance for both the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) and the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) services. A call for participation in the committee will be made on 17 January 2024, along with publication of the GAC Charter. The GAC…