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MANAGING DIRECTOR   |   PRESS CONTACTS & SPEAKING   |   FACT SHEET  

Press Releases the Council Press

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

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 since February 2006.
Michael Atkin, Managing Director, EDM Council

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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