Cusip
EC ends S&P’s 53-year era as Cusip’s "cash-cow" operator
Sources ID Ice and DTCC as suitors, but new owners may not bring relief to users paying millions.
Waters Wrap: The expanding battle over reference data identifiers
Bloomberg, Broadridge, and Finra have all recently made news in the world of standards and identifiers. Anthony looks at some of the questions the reporters at WatersTechnology will be asking going forward.
After lengthy fight, Bloomberg’s Figi recognized as official US data standard
The Figi is free to use, and becomes the second reference data standard alongside Cusip, authorized for financial instrument identification by the American National Standards Institute.
Goldman Sachs Takes Aim at Interoperability, Analytics with Marquee Enhancements
The bank’s recent moves signal what could become a managed services offering, as Goldman further embraces cloud, open source, and APIs.
Waters Wrap: On Refinitiv and Old Rivalries (And FIGI & Data Governance)
Anthony explores some of the questions raised by Refinitiv's plan to move away from Eikon and Thomson One. He also looks at data governance trends, and asks why the FIGI is having such a tough time gaining acceptance.
Bloomberg's FIGI: A Case of Red Light, Green Light
After the route toward accreditation via the ISO petered out, Bloomberg is vying to establish its reference data standard as a system of record in the US, following a win in Brazil.
MarketAxess Looks to Give Dealers Additional Axe Control
The tool allows dealers to stream axes to clients with customizable control over visibility.
Cusip Promotes Market Data Product Pro Bastian
As senior director of market development, he will spearhead the national numbering agency’s foray into DLT.
Cusip Options Adds North American Futures
Cusip Global Services brings North American exchanges' futures into numbering system.
Cusip Enhances New Issue Alert Service
The upgraded service includes information on new issues as well as changes to existing Cusip records.
Bermuda Stock Exchange Confirms Status as LEI Issuer
The exchange is able to issue LEIs to listed and unlisted Bermuda-domiciled companies.
CUSIP and Delaware Depository Team Up for Gold Identifiers
Initiative aims to modernize precious metals market
CUSIP Moves into Metals
Partnership aims to bring standardization to precious metals markets
Ipreo, CUSIP Team Up to Integrate Services
Partnership Aims to Streamline Workflows in Equities, Fixed Income
CDO Advocacy and Influence
Chief data officers, now more established at their firms throughout the industry, are weighing in on how to pursue higher data quality by several means. Will they address the legal entity identifier next?
LEI Benefits Emerge As Implementation Progresses
The legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative is gaining strength with recognizable data quality benefits, greater awareness and participation, and more complete standards guidelines. Michael Shashoua reports on how all these developments are coming…
CUSIP Adds Coverage of Crowdfunding Offerings
The provision of CUSIPs for crowdfunding offerings is part of CUSIP Global Services efforts to cover new asset types and has become necessary because of the liberalization of legislation in the US governing private placements
CUSIP Numbers Created for MAC IRS Contracts
SIFMA AMG and ISDA have worked with CUSIP Global Services to create CUSIP numbers for Market Agreed Coupons, a type of interest rate swap contract launched in April
ISITC Issues Multi-Listed Identifier Best Practices
The standards organization's working group is basing best practices on ISIN codes, as the most common and widely used format
Rimes Adds Data Sets to Reference Data Service, Plans to Include LEI
The managed data services vendor has added new data sets to its Rimes Reference Data Service and Rimes Benchmark Data Service, and plans to also include legal entity identifier data in the next two months
Cusip Adds LEI Data to Relieve Mapping Burden
Cusip Global Services says incorporating legal entity identifier data will help firms link to the new standard because many of their internal identifiers are mapped to Cusip numbers
S&P Capital IQ Launches Data Cross-Reference
The Business Entity Cross Reference Service, already live in production, covers more than two million entities, and is available through the S&P Capital IQ Xpressfeed platform
Reflections on the Paris Financial Information Summit
Nicholas Hamilton and Faye Kilburn speak to delegates at the Paris Financial Information Summit on 12 June about regulation, data management strategies and vendor-practitioner collaboration
Following Cusip’s Arrow
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