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GLEIF Takes Charge of the LEI Effort

October 21, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Editor’s note: The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body overseeing the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has taken center stage in the effort to promote the usage of the LEI standard. In fact, GLEIF has just launched the Global LEI Index, “a golden copy of all past and current LEI records including… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Data Management, Industry News, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, General Interest, Governance, FinTech Trends, Standards, Opinion, Q&As, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: compliance, data management, data quality, Financial Stability Board, FSA, GLEIF, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, governance, LEIs, operational risk, reference data, risk management, Standards, Stephan Wolf

SWIFT Price Cuts Deeper than Expected

October 13, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

SWIFT’s five-year, SWIFT2015 strategy to shrink its pricing for its messaging services has beat the cooperative’s expectations because of “strong” traffic growth, cost controls and pricing schemes, resulting in a 57 percent price reduction expected by the end of this year. Officials from the cooperative announced the strategy result at SWIFT’s annual Sibos gathering, underway… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, KYC, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: compliance, counterparties, data management, EMIR, FATCA, Financial Crime, KYC, LEIs, MiFID II, operational risk, risk management, Sibos, SWIFT

GLEIF’s New Rules May Reject Current LEI Issuers

October 9, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) will be taking over the accreditation process for organizations that issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) via a new program that supersedes the efforts of the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee (LEI ROC), say GLEIF officials. However, the new accreditation process is retroactive and could mean that some of the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Industry News, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: derivatives, GLEIF, governance, Legal Entity Identifiers, LEIs, MoU, Standards, transparency

LEI Updates from GLEIF & CFTC

July 29, 2014 by Ryan Boysen

The global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) infrastructure is coming together, slowly but surely. This week the inaugural board meeting of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) established a funding plan for LEIs, and the CFTC extended the designation of the utility operated by the post-trade services company DTCC and the financial messaging cooperative SWIFT… Read More >>

Filed Under: FinTech Trends, Standards Tagged With: CFTC, Financial Stability Board (FSB), Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, LEIs

LEI Foundation Picks a CEO

July 18, 2014 by Louis Chunovic

The directors of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) have named Stephan Wolf, currently the organization’s chief technology officer (CTO), as its new CEO. Wolf also is a member of the executive board of Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG, a provider of financial market information systems to banks, brokers and others. Wolf co-founded IS… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: LEIs

Buy Side Avoiding SEFs

June 18, 2014 by Eugene Grygo

Buy-side firms have made great strides in the past five years in revamping their over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading infrastructures and processes even though they are avoiding swap execution facilities (SEFs) as often as they can, says Cynthia Meyn, executive vice president and senior operations manager for bond fund manager PIMCO, who spoke during a panel… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side Tagged With: CFTC, Dodd-Frank, isda, LEIs, OTC derivatives, PIMCO, SEFs, Sifma

Demand Soars for Recs IT as SIFMA Pushes LEI Usage

April 15, 2014 by Louis Chunovic

Reconciliation Technology ‘Explosion’ in Europe & U.S., Says Aite No longer is reconciliation technology “solely applied” to reconciling cash accounts. That’s the word from market research firm Aite Group’s latest report, “Reconciliation Technology Solutions in 2014: Recs Get Ready to Rumble,” which also takes note of the “explosion in the number of different vendor solutions… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Securities Operations, Reconciliation & Exceptions, General Interest, FinTech Trends, Standards, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Industry News Tagged With: Aite Group, CBOT, CME Group, Etrali, Fiserv, isda, LEIs, OTC derivatives, reconciliation, Sifma

Time to Download Our New Issue

June 21, 2013 by Eugene Grygo

Well, we’ve done it again. We pooled our vast editorial resources and put together another digital magazine for you. This time, the Summer/Fall 2013 edition takes on information challenges in a new way by focusing on the “New Rules of Operational Data Management.” We want to help you cope with emerging and ongoing data challenges… Read More >>

Filed Under: Minding the Gap Tagged With: data management, data warehouse, FATCA, Form PF, FTF News, LEIs, operational data management, Sifma Tech

FTF News Magazine: Summer 2012

July 10, 2012 by Eugene Grygo

Download the Summer 2012 issue of FTF News Magazine to read about: FTF News’ Person of the Year:  Keeping up with XSP’s Brendan Farrell OMS players breaking into the middle- and back-offices J.P. Morgan’s push for best practice guidelines to help sort out diverse commercial data models How Loomis Sayles is bracing for the OTC… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, Industry News Tagged With: Cost Basis Reporting, Financial Technologies Forum, FIX, FTF News, JP Morgan, LEIs, Loomis Sayles, Technology Innovation Awards, XSP

Good News from the Global LEI Front

January 26, 2012 by Eugene Grygo

Good News from the Global LEI Front

Rarely am I enthusiastic about bureaucratic standards-building processes. But a recent task force report gives me hope that international support for a system of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) is real and will help bring to fruition a key reform for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Of course, this isn’t the sexy reform that grabs the headlines, but… Read More >>

Filed Under: Minding the Gap Tagged With: CPSS, FSB, iosco, Lehman Brothers, LEIs, ODRF, OTC, SWIFT

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