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Press Releases from the Council Press
Press Coverage and Articles about the Council
Press Contacts and Speaking
Requests to invite the Council to participate, present or chair at your event should be directed to:
Carole Mahoney,
Head of Business Operations, EDM Council
+44 20 8399 7189
(e) cmahoney@edmcouncil.org
Requests for interviews should be directed to:
Tinne Teugels,
c/o Metia +1.917.320.6458,
(e) tinne@metia.com
| Michael Atkin, Managing Director, EDM Council |
Michael Atkin is the Managing Director of the EDM Council. The Council is a business
forum for financial institutions. It has been designed to enable senior officers
responsible for content management to share information on the business strategies
and practical implementation realities associated achieving enterprise-wide control
over data content.
Mike has been a professional facilitator and financial information industry advocate
for over 20 years. He managed the Financial Information Services Division (FISD)
of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and established it as
a neutral business forum for exchanges, data vendors and financial institutions
to address the strategic and commercial issues associated with market and reference
data management. He has also been involved with many other organizations including
the Reference Data Coalition (REDAC) and the UK Reference Data User Group (RDUG).
He was a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Data and a member
of both ISO TC68 and ANSI X9D. He has been the Managing Director of the EDM Council
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Areas of Expertise
- Reference data strategy
- Instrument identification, numbering schemes and symbology
- XML for market data and vocabulary normalization
- Standards development and implementation
- Billing, reporting and inventory reconciliation
- Market data contracts, business policy and compliance
- Commercial and licensing structures
- International regulatory issues analysis
Affiliations
- Member of the Securities & Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Market
Data (Seligman Committee)
- Founder and Secretariat of the Reference Data Coalition (REDAC)
- Member of Executive Committee UK–based Reference Data User Group (RDUG)
- Direct liaison to International Organization of Standards (ISO TC68/SC4) and participant
on Working Group 8 (International Business Entity Identification) and Working Group
11 (Market Data Model and Vocabulary)
- Voting member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X9D
- Member of the Securities Industry Association’s (SIA) Standards & Protocols
Committee and Market Data Sub-Committee
- Member of the ISIN User Group within the Association of National Numbering Agencies
- Member of the ISITC User Group on Instrument Identification
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