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IRD's Wrap on SIFMA 2011

Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua gives his take on last week's Sifma event and all the talk surrounding Legal Entity Identification, ISITC's focus on SSIs (standing settlement instructions) and the EDM Council's efforts in the standardization...

Inside Reference Data | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 20 Jun 2011 | video

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ISITC Official Outlines SSI Update

Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua speaks with Jan Snitzer, first vice chair of ISITC and a vice president at Loomis Sayles, about ISITC's recently updated market practice for standing settlement instructions.

Waters | Interview | Clearing & Settlement | 16 Jun 2011 | audio

MiFID Forum Claims Tape Standard Progress

The European Consolidated Tape Group of industry association The MiFID Forum is seeking to appoint a program manager this summer to lead the group’s efforts, after securing satisfactory commitment and funding from participants, according to sources...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 13 Jun 2011

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Taxed by Tax

The US market has been forced to adapt operational processes to prepare for changing tax regulation related to cost-basis reporting and foreign accounts. As these types of projects have become key activities in corporate actions departments, changing...

Inside Reference Data | Feature | Corporate Actions | 09 May 2011

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ISITC US Corporate Actions Tax Group Looks at Standardization

The US chapter of industry association ISITC has for the first time created a separate corporate actions tax sub-working group, reflecting the increased focus on tax-related corporate actions challenges. The US market has seen the introduction of new...

Inside Reference Data | News | Corporate Actions | 09 May 2011

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Corporate Actions: Past, Present and Future

Collaborative efforts have helped facilitate much needed change in corporate actions processing, but there are still a number of challenges that need to be addressed, says corporate actions expert David Hands

Inside Reference Data | Opinion | Corporate Actions | 07 Apr 2011

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Mifid: Legislation in Limbo

In April 2010, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) issued a new set of consultation papers intended to re-shape 2007’s pan-European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), and incorporate lessons learned from the financial...

Waters | Feature | Regulation & Standards | 28 Feb 2011

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Hands Leaves DTCC, Becomes Corporate Actions Consultant

New York-based David Hands has left the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) after more than nine years at the company, and is now an independent corporate actions consultant. Hands led the DTCC’s initiative to improve the data quality of corporate...

Waters | News | People | 28 Feb 2011

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ISITC's Probert on the 2011 Strategy

As the push for collaboration grows, industry associations are increasingly in the spotlight to bring market participants together and improve interoperability between standards. Carla Mangado speaks to ISITC’s US Gary Probert on how 2010 may have seen...

Inside Reference Data | Interview | Regulation & Standards | 12 Jan 2011

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