EDMworks recently hosted the first in their new series of Data Practitioner Networking Events.
“Being smart about LEI”, was a great success and we’d like to extend a big thank you to everyone who was in attendance.
Our CEO, Dennis Slattery opened the event by giving a brief overview of what the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is and what regulatory implications it has for financial institutions.
PJ Di Giammarino (founder and CEO JWG) was the first of our guest speakers and gave some more detail on regulatory impact of LEI with his overview of G20 regulations.
Next up was Kevin Bowen from Thomson Reuters, who spoke in depth about how LEI would fit into an organisational data model for the investment sector. Kevin provided an excellent overview of the scope of organisational data within a financial firm.
Dennis then gave his insights into Being smart about LEI implementation and approaches on leverage for budget spending to ensure regulatory demands and also organisational data changes were met.
He then invited Chris Johnson from HSBC Securities Services to talk about LEI from a buy-side perspective.
The event was rounded off by a question and answer session lead by Tom Dalglish which we were pleased to see had contributions from several attendees.
These events are designed to raise questions & discussion points; they act as a forum to share opinions and knowledge with fellow industry professionals.
We concluded the afternoon with a peer networking session and the chance to exchange business cards over a drink or two.
Once again… a big thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the discussion. We look forward to seeing you at our future events…
- “Symbology and Asset Matching” – June 27th 2012
- “Enterprise Data Planning and Budgeting” – September 26th 2012
- “Fund Structures and Fund of Funds” – November 28th 2012





