Standards Forum

The Standards Forum is the place where business and standardisation meet. This group would like to facilitate and encourage dialogue around standardisation in the financial industry, and share views, insights and updates on how financial standards can contribute to reducing cost and increasing efficiency when tackling today's challenges such as automation, compliance, and regulation.

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Standards Forum Day Four

Last day. Are you still in one piece? Ask me again tomorrow. The standards forum wraps up Sibos 2013 with another full agenda. Prof. Poppe, who has really put a shift in this week, gets the day off today. We start at 9:30am with a session on standards for asset servicing. For “asset servicing”, read “corporate actions”. Put an extra shot in my e...

19 September 2013 /sibos

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Standards Forum Day Two Summary

The Standards Forum celebrated its 10th birthday in style including a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” led by Andrew Muir, who looked like he was enjoying just a bit too much! The Standards team also used the event to formally launch the iPad app, called the “ISO 20022 adoption mApp”, or as I like to call it, an App called Mapp. Download it...

18 September 2013 /sibos

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Standards Forum Day Three

Welcome to hump day. Day 3 of Sibos and we are closer to the end than we are to the beginning. I’m running on fumes now, waiting for my second wind to kick in. Another packed agenda on the Standards Forum. Who’s ready for some fun? We kick off with Professor Poppe again. Today Tom will be talking about how the standards are responding and evolvi...

18 September 2013 /sibos

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Standards Forum Day One Summary

We arrived at the Standards Forum stand bright and early for a team briefing. Very impressive always. This year the corrugated cardboard makes way for recycled wooden crates. Looks a bit like a loft in the Village. What will they think of next? Quick sound check; Two. One-two. One. Two. One-two; and we’re ready to rock and roll. Most of the sess...

17 September 2013 /sibos

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Standards Forum Day Two

Today, we start off with Professor Poppe again at 9am. Today Tom is talking about reference data. I’m particularly interested to hear about the role of standards in big data, clearly one of this year’s buzzwords of choice. Immediately following Tom is Tim Lind, another Sibos regular, who is moderating a session called “Stability or agility? The tr...

17 September 2013 /sibos

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Twenty oh two two

For a standard that claims to be the one standard to bind them all, a method for developing standards, and a framework to allow multiple message syntaxes to co-exist, one might think that we could at least agree on how to pronounce the name. Over the years I've heard all sorts of variations and I thought by now I've heard them all. Surprisingly I ...

16 September 2013 /sibos

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Standards Forum Day One

So, here we are again. Another Sibos. Another Standards Forum. The waiting is over and it’s time to get down to business. On Monday we kick off at 9:30am with “Professor” Tom Poppe who will be working the early shift every day, what a trooper! Today Tom will take a look at how standards have evolved in the 40 years since SWIFT was created. F...

16 September 2013 /sibos