Tokyo Financial Information Summit
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
LEI Advocates Must Target Critical Mass
As doubts remain about some jurisdictions' plans for the legal entity identifier, proponents must focus on driving adoption in the majority of major economies
TR Exec: "Third-Party Pricing Has Missed Out On Regulatory Push in Asia"
Regulations have helped to drive adoption of third-party pricing in the US and Europe, but this has not been the case in Asia, delegates have heard at this week's Tokyo Financial Information Summit
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
SIX Exec: "Model Pricing Has Important Role Despite Central Clearing"
Ian Blance, Zurich-based director of evaluated pricing at SIX Financial Information, told delegates at the Tokyo Financial Information Summit that model pricing will remain important for fixed-income assets that are infrequently traded
The Wait Is Over
With key decisions about LEI standards now made and clearer definitions of Fatca and other regulations completed, Asian markets, especially Japan, can begin to respond. Michael Shashoua examines how the compliance challenges are stacking up
Fitch Solutions Takes on CDS Data Challenge
Strapline: Pricing & Valuations
Asia-Pacific Tour Diary 4
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua asks if data professionals feel lucky concerning what parts of operations they seek to preserve
TFIS Live: Reliable Data for Complex Products
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live from Tokyo via Twitter feed on a panel discussion at the Tokyo Financial Information Summit on April 24 about obtaining reliable data for illiquid assets and complex products. Panelists…
How Will Tokyo Differ on Global Regulatory Initiatives?
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua focuses on how regulation affecting data may be received in the Asia-Pacific region, in advance of the Tokyo Financial Information Summit and coverage of events in Sydney and Singapore
Michael Shashoua: In Japan, Half Measures Don’t Pay
Foreign financial firms and service providers find time and again that taking part in the Tokyo market requires an “all in” strategy in data operations. Michael sees opportunity for those willing to make the leap.
XBRL Begins to Catch on in Japan
Tokyo markets are sorting out accounting issues and other limits encountered by the data format, with an eye toward compatibility with international reporting standards
Asian Markets Confront Data Centralization Issue
Financial firms and their service providers look for ways to strike a balance between centralization and localization of reference data to attain benefits of centralizing despite barriers of local market differences in data
Pricing Leans on Partnerships for Accuracy
Panelists at the Tokyo Financial Information Summit found that getting accurate prices in emerging markets depends on collaboration to determine what factors are determining prices and how
Tokyo Diary 4
Foreign data vendors should heed centralization challenges when trying to enter the Japanese market
Multiple Sources Increase Pricing Transparency Challenges
Icap business development manager recaps discussion of pricing challenges in the Tokyo market, following Tokyo Financial Information Summit
Tokyo Diary 3
Discussions at today's Tokyo Financial Information Summit covered data management challenges in the Japanese markets