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Press Releases the Council Press

January 2012	For Wall Street Overseer, Progress Comes at a Crawl Leading a new federal agency intended to help prevent another financial crisis may seem like a dream job for most economic gurus, but the government made a nomination only last month after a painfully slow search process.
December 2011	Big Data: Harnessing a game-changing asset Article published by Economist Intell Unit highlighting the opportunities good data management bring to firms Silos Are Good For Farmers, Not So Good For Banks Next year will be the year of infrastructure, says Mike Atkin, managing director of the Enterprise Data Management Council. This will be the year that regulations will be written, probably. Obama nominates Berner for new Treasury post Richard Berner, former chief US economist at Morgan Stanley, has been tapped to run the Office of Financial Research, a new federal office charged with mining market data to help US policymakers avert potential crises. Does John Bottega's Hire as B of A's Chief Data Officer Mean the CDO is Back? Bank of America's appointment of John Bottega to be its chief data officer may signal a return to an earlier trend in which banks took data management issues seriously enough to put a C-level person in charge... Bank of America Names John Bottega Chief Data Officer Bank of America announced today that John Bottega has joined the company as chief data officer. In this role, Bottega is responsible for the bank's data management strategy, policy and governance.
October 2011	G-20 Communiqué Issued by finance ministers and central bankers within G-20. It outlines their orientation and core principles on how to restore confidence, financial stability and growth. The G-20 group specifically endorsed the global legal entity identification recommendation (page 2).
September 2011	EDM Council Adds Corporate Actions to Semantics Repository By: Carla Mangado, Inside Reference Data, 8 Sep 2011 The LEI—Looking into 2012 By: By Carla Mangado, 8 Sep 2011 Update on the Dodd-Frank Data Developments Like LEI from EDM Council By: By Tom Groenfeldt, 5 Sep 20111
June 2011	"Global" Bank Regulation - Stranded in the U.S.? Tom Groenfeldt
March 2011	OMG to Bolster EDM Council's Semantics Repository with Established Governance Framework, Says Soley A-Team Group:
November 2010	Faster data: The demands of the US financial reform bill will finally force financial services companies to get serious about marshalling their internal numbers

July 2010	IBS Journal Reports : A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste and Data Management Focus Interview www.ibsintelligence.com

June 2010	Data Management a Top Priority for Wall Street Firms

May 2010	Council Marks Milestones in Membership and Data Management Maturity Council Welcomes Nine New Members in 2010 and Expands its Board of Directors as Legislators and Industry Embrace Data Standards in Support of Regulatory Oversight
	Writing in the Financial Times, CE-NIF co-founders Allan Mendelowitz and John Liechty argue that the 2008 crisis revealed the inadequacy of current data and analysis tools for understanding threats to financial stability

March 2010	The Government's 'Canary in the Coal Mine'
	Senate Bill on Finance to Include Agency That Tracks Financial Risk

February 2010	Technology - And Preventing Another Crisis
	Survey Reveals Data Quality and Consistency Key to Risk Management and Transparency Thomson Reuters and Lepus Survey
	Data Management 2010: The Ins and Outs
	Reed Proposes Financial Risk Data Clearinghouse Bank Systems & Technology/Wall Street & Technology
	U.S. Senator Reed Proposes Center to collect Financial Risk Data NASDAQ
	Senator Reed Sponsors Legislation Creating Executive Agency to Collect Data on Systemic Risk NASDAQ
	Reed seeks risk-monitoring agency Providence Business Journal
	Bill would create data-monitoring institute to track risks in financial system Congressional Daily
	European Regulators Ready to Engage with Data Management Community A-Team Group
	Fed's Tarullo Pushes For Mandatory Reference Data Reporting and Standardisation A-Team Group
	Swaps Sleuths Are the Fix for Too Tangled to Fail Businessweek
	2010 Securities Industry News Blog commentary following release of latest Aite Group report

January 2010	Data Management 2010: The Ins and Outs Securities Industry News
	EDM Council Publishes its Naughty and Nice List for 2010 Reference Data Review
	EDM Council's Atkin Elaborates on the Industry Group's Progress This Year Reference Data Review

November 2009	Unencumbered by the Thought Process Nerds on Wall Street, Nov 4, 2009
	Follow the Data When Tracking Systemic Risk Securities Industry News, Nov 2, 2009
	EDM Council Publishes Revised Schedule for Subject Matter Expert Reviews Reference Data Review, Nov 5, 2009
	EDM Council's Atkin and JWG's Di Giammarino Duke it Out Over Data Standards Reference Data Review, Nov 11, 2009
	Reference Data Review First Words: Is the Industry Focusing on the Right Things? Reference Data Review, Nov 18, 2009
	A Reference Data Review Reader Speaks Out About ECB's Utility Proposals: The Myths and Truths That Need to be Factored into the Equation Reference Data Review, Nov 13, 2009
	Emboldened Regulators Will Force Wall Street to Overhaul Data Stores Wall Street & Technology, Nov. 10, 2009
	Financial Markets Reform Needs More than Perestroika Waters
	Video: Standardisation Panel & Debate at FIMA 2009 Reference Data Review, Nov 25, 2009

September 2009	Before Dealing With Systemic Risk, How About Getting Data on It? publisher: Securities Industry News
	The Utility Track publisher: Inside Reference Data
	Learning from Past Mistakes publisher: Inside Reference Data

August 2009	NIF Off to a Slow Start with Only 44 Signatures: Is the US Convinced it's the Answer to Reference Data Standardisation? publisher: A-Team Insight
	US NIF and ECB's Reference Data Utility Need Clarity and Strong Leadership, Says JWG-IT's Di Giammarino publisher: A-Team Insight
	Early Warning Market System Gains Steam In Wash, Wall St by: Marshall Eckblad publisher: The Wall Street Journal
	New Regulatory Body Promoted to Standardize Financial Data publisher: Financial Advisor

July 2009	Reengineering Financial Services. How data tagging has made a muddle of financial transparency - and what CEOs can do about it by: Allan D Grody publisher: CEO Magazine
	The Data Dilemma by: Clive Davidson publisher: Incisive Media - Risk Magazine
	Announcement : EDM Council and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Partner to Create Process for Measuring Data Management Maturity
	In Search Of The Gold Standard by: Clive Davidson publisher: Incisive Media - Risk Magazine

April 2009	Data Management : Thinking Small by: David Longworth publisher: financial-i

October 2008:	EDM Council New Members Alert
November 2007:	John Bottega, CDO, Citigroup elected as new Chairman of EDM Council Board of Directors
May 2007:	EDM Council Completes Data Quality Metrics Pilot – Variance in Data Attributes Supports the Business Case for EDM
April 2007:	EDM Council Members Work with DTCC to Standardize Financial Instrument Terms and Definitions
January 2007:	ADP Brokerage Services, Deutsche Börse/Avox and Standard & Poor’s Join EDM Council
October 2006:	EDM Council sets agenda to advance Enterprise Data Management as a core operational infrastructure
May 2006:	CIOs define hierarchy of priorities on path to achieving enterprise-wide data management
March 2006:	EDM Council meets in New York to discuss business case and implementation best practice research for enterprise data management
February 2006:	EDM Council names Michael Atkin Managing Director
November 2005:	Momentum builds behind the EDM Council as European executives join in London
August 2005:	Inaugural session of EDM Council outlines key industry initiatives
June 2005:	Industry vendors and financial institutions team-up to support and promote enterprise data management (EDM)

Press Coverage and Articles about the Council

August 2006:	Inside Reference Data - The Dawning age of the reference data Inside Reference Data - The Data Management Awards Inside Reference Data - Raising the bar on standards development
July 2006:	Inside Reference Data - EDM council outlines four new working groups to push reform
June 2006:	Waters - Roundtable - Managing Data Management

Press Contacts and Speaking

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 since February 2006.

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