Following the end of the Brexit Transition Period, the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom replaced several ESMA systems and datasets. This data helps firms, amongst other things, to determine their UK reporting obligations. These new FCA data sets are deemed by the FCA to be the accepted data sets to be used by […]
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The investment industry, whether it be firms themselves or the private clients investing with them, has long called for a quick and easy way of accessing instrument reference data. Wouldn’t it be ideal if there was a single, free-of-charge source to go to that happens to be the same data used by the regulators? […]
Oktris is delighted to announce its new web portal which is open to all and at launch incorporates the free-of-charge Oktris FIRDS service to greatly simplify the user experience when accessing FIRDS instrument reference data from ESMA (and, in anticipation of the 1st January Brexit deadline, from the FCA too). The Oktris approach centres on […]
Financial Instruments Reference Data System (‘FIRDS’) is a data collection infrastructure established by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in cooperation with the EU competent national authorities (NCAs), in order to collect data in an efficient and harmonised manner. FIRDS will need to cover the entire range of financial instruments that are included in the […]