When Reporting Trends Move Faster Than Investment Strategy

In asset management and across the broader financial industry, reporting priorities often follow market narratives. Over the past decade, firms have adapted disclosures and reporting outputs to address ESG integration, transaction cost transparency, digital assets, and more recently, artificial intelligence exposure. Before that, it was smart beta, alternatives, and thematic Read more…

Implementing a Golden Source of Fund Data: Challenges and Best Practices

As regulatory obligations expand and distribution models become more complex, financial firms are increasingly constrained not by a lack of data, but by how that data is managed. Across asset managers, insurers, REITs, and other investment firms, fund and product data are often fragmented across administrators, custodians, vendors, and internal Read more…

FinDatEx Releases Final EMT 4.3 for Structured Products in France

Last week, FinDatEx released the finalized version of EMT 4.3, the latest update to the European MiFID Template. As we previously reported, EMT 4.3 introduces a new France-specific section applicable to structured products, focused on Value Cost Advantage (VCA) disclosures. Compared to EMT 4.2, version 4.3 adds three optional fields Read more…

Openfunds has published Field List, v2.12.0

This version introduces new fields for holdings attributes, trade price frequency, UK Overseas Fund Regime (OFR), ACT signatory, and Swiss sustainability disclosure. It also updates many fields to support minor currencies, UK post-Brexit considerations, and definitions for EMT, EPT, and EET-related fields. Although the changes span 121 fields, the iQuant Read more…