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IRD's Editor on the LEI's Bottom Line
Features in the May issue of Inside Reference Data explore client onboarding, budgeting and data quality issues related to the legal entity identifier.
Looking for the Finish Line
Stories and features in the May issue of Inside Reference Data identify remaining hurdles for legal entity identifier, question how widely understood are the LEI's benefits, and explore drives to secure its value
Identifying LEI Opportunities and Challenges
The rollout of the legal entity identifier offers firms an opportunity to improve their onboarding processes and bring together valuable data sets, but a successful outcome depends on careful planning, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Can Telecommuting Work on the Buy Side?
Advancements in technology have made it easier than ever for employees to work from home─or at a bar or beach. Capital markets firms are now having to decide how much freedom to let their workers have.
Latency Hardware: Threading the Needle
From proprietary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to flexible kill switches, North American Trading Architecture Summit panelists say good strategy always fits the right hardware to purpose.
Morgan Stanley Exec: “LEI Can Make Onboarding More Efficient”
John Sproat, Morgan Stanley's Tokyo-based Asia head of enterprise data, said the legal entity identifier will help prevent firms from unnecessarily onboarding clients multiple times
Morgan Stanley CTO: Crowdsourcing Key for Innovation
At this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit in Midtown Manhattan, keynote speaker Tsvi Gal of Morgan Stanley discussed how his firm has employed a new crowdsourcing platform to promote innovation.
Tradition Debuts Long-Awaited ParFX Platform
Broker-dealer Tradition has announced that its spot foreign exchange (FX) ParFX platform, formerly known as TraFXpure, has been launched.
Mobile ROI Hard To Quantify For Financial Firms
At a debate on the impact of consumer technology in the financial services industry, four mobile specialists expressed their opinions on what has been overhyped and what's been underhyped.
Moscow Exchange Announces IPO
Moscow Exchange has announced the successful pricing of its initial public offering (IPO) in Moscow, which has been set at RUB 55 ($1.83) per share.
NSX Securities Taps Morgan Stanley for Clearing, Order Routing
NSX Securities, the wholly-owned broker-dealer and exchange facility of the National Stock Exchange, has chosen Morgan Stanley to provide its clearing services and outbound order routing.
FISD Pitches Contract Standards Project
Consumer Constituency Group outlines 10 categories of terms that will form the basis of concise, standardized contract addenda.
FXSpotStream Adds Morgan Stanley as Liquidity Provider
LiquidityMatch subsidiary FXSpotStream announced that Morgan Stanley has gone live as a liquidity provider of FXSpotStream's price aggregation service from FXSpotStream's sites in New York and London.
FGS Capital's Narain: Build Algos to Fail
Algorithms must be built specifically with failure in mind, according to Jogi Narain, chief technology officer at London-based buy-side firm FGS Capital.
PNC Makes Van Wyk Head of Tech and Ops
The former ING COO takes over for 29-year veteran Tom Whitford.
FXall Adds Three Banks for Options Pricing
FXall, the Thomson Reuters-owned foreign exchange (FX) platform, has announced the addition of JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to its Multibank Options offering.
Morgan Stanley Joins FXSpotStream as a Liquidity Provider
FXSpotStream, an industry utility that provides a multibank FX service to clients for the purpose of executing spot trades, has added Morgan Stanley as a liquidity provider.
EFIS 2012: Managing Desktop Spend Still a Challenge, Panel Says
Panelists address the difficulties of cutting spend without also cutting functionality