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Derivatives Service Bureau Hits Deadline of 16 October 2023 with Go-Live of UPI Service
The Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service went live as planned on Monday 16 October 2023, enabling firms to create and search for UPIs. UPI reporting starts in major derivatives markets in 2024, with US rules applying from 29 January 2024, the EU EMIR Refit regulations from 29 April 2024, followed by…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2023
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its Data Management Insight Awards – USA 2023. The awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA. The awards were presented by Andrew Delaney, president and chief content officer at A-Team Group,…
EMIR Refit is on the Horizon – Is Your Organisation Ready? Find Out at Next Week’s RegTech Summit London
European Market Infrastructure Regulation Refit (EMIR Refit) is on the horizon with new reporting standards including more reporting fields, a change in reporting format from CSV to XML, an increase in the number of trading repository reconciliation fields for pairing a matching, and mandatory use of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), which moves into production…
GLEIF and Open Ownership Collaborate on Beneficial Ownership Data to Fight Financial Crime
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) and Open Ownership, provider of a beneficial ownership database funded by donors including government agencies, have collaborated to integrate Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) into Open Ownership datasets produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS), an open standard providing guidance on collecting, sharing and using high-quality data on…
Automation Adds Efficiency to Corporate Actions Processing, But is Not a Sole Solution
Corporate actions processing is challenging, raises prospects of financial and reputational risk, and can be extremely time consuming. Getting it right is key to financial institutions and their clients, so how can these challenges be overcome? Is automation the solution or are there also more nuanced approaches that will help firms achieve not only accurate…
Recorded Webinar: How to gain operational efficiency in corporate actions processing
While the risk associated with corporate actions is well established, many financial institutions continue with manual processing in the back office. More often than not, corporate actions information is manually keyed in and event processing lacks automation. This results in operational inefficiency, and financial risk due to missed events or simply getting it wrong. These…
Recorded Webinar: New opportunities to scale data operations
Faced with tough competition and ongoing pressure on margins, many firms are reviewing their operating models and assessing whether they can reallocate more resources to high-value projects by outsourcing commoditised processes including data operations. This webinar will explore the different approaches that buy-side and sell-side firms are adopting to scale their data operations, including market…
Understanding the Value of Global Identifiers in the Fight Against Financial Crime
By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations, GLEIF. Money laundering and terrorist financing create significant systemic risks in the global financial system. The intricate webs spun by fraudsters and criminals to evade detection crisscross national borders and legal jurisdictions, commonly exploiting multiple financial institutions and legal entities. In today’s instant digital economy, this is exposing…
SDX Adopts Digital Token Identifier
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) had become the first private distributed ledger technology (DLT) based financial market infrastructure to adopt the Digital Token Identifier Foundation’s ISO 24165 Digital Token Identifier (DTI) standard. The DTI standard provides a unique identifier for digital ledgers, tokens, and cryptocurrencies, and has been recommended by ESMA as a risk management measure for the…
Data Management Summit Returns to NYC with a Focus on Unlocking Data Value for the Business
Don’t miss it! Data Management Summit NYC will be hosted by A-Team Group president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney on 28 September in New York City. The summit promises plenty of new content, a line-up of expert speakers, and lively discussion on topics from how to unlock data value for the business to how…