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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,…
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…
S&P Global Market Intelligence streamlines due diligence with Entity Insights
S&P Global Market Intelligence has released Entity Insights, a solution designed to improve efficiency, reduce risk and increase data transparency in the entity due diligence process by automating manual processes used to gather, analyse and monitor entity data. The single-source solution generates real-time entity due diligence profiles on clients, suppliers and other third parties for…
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…
DTCC Pulls Out of LEI Issuance with Closure of GMEI Utility – Bloomberg and LSE Expected Beneficiaries
DTCC has closed its Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility and will no longer issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) as a Local Operating Unit (LOU) in the Global LEI System. In a notice to GMEI clients, DTCC said the utility, operated by DTCC subsidiary and accredited LOU Business Entity Data B.V., terminated all its LEI…
CUSIP Global Services Releases Unique Entity Identifier for Syndicated Corporate Loan Market
CUSIP Global Services has released a unique entity identifier for the $5 trillion syndicated corporate loan market. The CUSIP Entity Identifier (CEI) is a unique 10-character code assigned to each legal entity holding corporate loans and was developed in collaboration with the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) and Versana. The identifier provides transparency into…
Moody’s Analytics Wins Contract to Fight Financial Crime in European Union
Moody’s Analytics has won a framework contract worth up to €34 million from the European Commission to strengthen its anti-fraud, money laundering and financial crime effort. The four-year contract will be managed by the Commission’s European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and will use the Orbis database operated by Bueau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics subsidiary, to…
FCA Makes Digital Sandbox Permanently Available, Invites Data Providers to Apply to List Data on the Platform
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will make its Digital Sandbox available permanently from 1 August 2023 following two successful pilots. The aim is to open up the platform to a broader range of innovative businesses, start-ups and data providers. The sandbox is a testing environment that enables the FCA to support firms at the early…
Moody’s and Microsoft Partner on Next-Gen Solutions Including Generative AI
Strategic Partnership for Next-Gen Solutions Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Teams and Moody’s Proprietary Data to Empower Financial Services, Capital Markets and More Moody’s and Microsoft have made a strategic partnership to co-create next-generation data, analytics, research, collaboration and risk solutions for financial services. The solutions will be built by…
GLEIF Signals Intent to Join Global Project Designed to Digitise ESG Credentials of MSMEs
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have signed a statement of intent to embark on a collaborative initiative to develop digital Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) worldwide. The initiative, Project Savannah, hopes to lower the…