Articles by Nicholas Hamilton
IRD's Senior Reporter On LEI's Role in EMIR
Nicholas Hamilton discusses how the legal entity identifier can be used to easy the challenges of aggregating large amounts of data when the trade reporting requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation comes into force on February 12
Choosing Data Governance Battles
New regulations and pressure to reduce costs are creating greater awareness of the importance of effective data governance. However, careful planning is still needed to win support for projects and to ensure their success, writes Nicholas Hamilton
A Transparent View of Pricing
As transparency becomes a key requirement in the pricing and valuations space, financial firms have many questions for their vendors about input data, market color and pricing methodologies, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Traiana Facilitates Reporting of Common UTIs
The post-trade and risk management vendor is using its Harmony network to allow counterparties to exchange unique trade identifiers and ensure they report the same codes to trade repositories
Website Offers Detailed Pre-LEI Searches
OpenCorporates has created a new website designed to make it easy for users to conduct detailed searches of pre-legal entity identifier data and spot data quality issues
Evaluated Pricing Head Blance Leaves SIX
Ian Blance has left SIX Financial Information after almost four years as head of its evaluated pricing business, and has returned to independent consulting. Mirko Silvestri fills Blance's former role at SIX.
Getting to Grips with the Details of LEI Standardization
As more pre-local operating units begin to issue pre-legal entity identifiers, the P-LEI.org website is performing an important role by providing consolidated files of pre-LEI data. Standards expert Ken Traub tells Nicholas Hamilton how P-LEI.org came…
BBVA Chooses Markit EDM For Spanish, Mexican Data Hubs
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Asset Management will use the locally installed version of the Markit Enterprise Data Management platform to create data management hubs in Spain and Mexico
Fitch Solutions to Add Pre-LEIs to Unrated Entities
The data and analytics vendor currently includes pre-legal entity identifier codes for the entities rated by Fitch Ratings and now plans to do the same for its sets of unrated data, including credit default swap pricing data
GS1 Consultant on Pre-LEI Consolidated File Project
Ken Traub of GS1 explains how the not-for-profit standards body and a consortium of three other organizations are helping the industry by making consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data and statistics on the data available on the P-LEI.org…
HSBC's Choueiri Takes on European CDO Role
As HSBC's European chief data officer for global banking and markets, Hany Choueiri is responsible for data standards, policies and data quality services
Bloomberg Feeds European Asset Swap Spreads Into New Benchmark
Bloomberg Index has launched a benchmark that provides market-driven measurement of credit risk and funding rates of high-quality European banks
SIX Launches Solvency II Service With Comprehensive CIC Coverage
The data vendor is supplying more than 120 data points to help asset managers and insurers comply with the European Union directives, including the new Complementary Identifier Code, which the company is providing at both the instrument and individual…
HSBC Exec: Entities Without LEIs May Face Trading Restrictions in Europe
HSBC's Chris Johnson has warned market participants to ask their banks and brokers about possible trading restrictions for entities that do not have legal entity identifiers after the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation reporting requirements are…
Risk data trends and challenges: what implications does EMIR have for risk data? -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on November 18, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are improving transparency and mitigating risk in light of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
SAS Upgrades Risk Product Suite to Ingest Granular Data
The business analytics software vendor has enhanced its risk management products with the intention of helping firms not only to comply with current regulations, but also prepare for future requirements and generate business value
Pricing: the Meaning and Impact of Transparency -- Webcast
On November 13, 2013, five industry experts took part in an Inside Reference Data webcast exploring how requirements for increased levels of transparency are affecting the pricing and valuations space
Former SunGard Exec Pedder Joins Wolters Kluwer
Clive Pedder has joined Wolters Kluwer Financial Services as managing director of the company's finance, risk and compliance business for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after working as a senior executive at SunGard for the past four years
The Onward March of Managed Services
As cost-cutting measures and regulatory challenges continue, will firms increase the types of data they are willing to outsource to providers of managed services?
UBS Becomes First Sell-Side Client for Markit EDM Hosted Platform
In a major coup for Markit Enterprise Data Management, UBS will use its hosted platform for instrument reference data mastering across all asset classes globally
Bloomberg PolarLake CEO: Markit Deal Proves Our Independence
John Randles, chief executive officer of Bloomberg PolarLake, says a deal to distribute data from Markit proves his company is an independent entity that is open to working with third-party data vendors
IDC Adds Data on Fatca Withholding Obligations
The data and pricing vendor is helping clients prepare for the US anti-tax evasion regulation by identifying instruments that are generating US-sourced income
Irish, Dutch Pre-LEI Data Added to Consolidated Files
Data from the Irish and Dutch pre-local operating units is now being included in the consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data available from the P-LEI.org website
Bloomberg, Markit Agree Distribution Deal For EDM Businesses
An agreement between data vendors Bloomberg and Markit will see them distribute one another's reference and pricing data via their respective enterprise data management (EDM) businesses, Bloomberg PolarLake and Markit EDM