Financial Instrument Global Identifier

Bloomberg Launches Funds Data Solution Enhancing Insights and Connectivity Across the Investment Lifecycle

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

NEW YORK, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced the launch of its Funds Data Solution covering over 135,000 unique funds and 12,000 exchange traded products available as Foundational Data, Holdings, Corporate Actions, ESG, Risk, and Regulatory data products. Bloomberg's Funds Data Solution is accessible via Bloomberg Data License file delivery and aligns with the funds data available on the Bloomberg Terminal to support investment workflows consistently and with scale across an enterprise. 

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  • Bloomberg's Funds Data Solution is accessible via Bloomberg Data License file delivery and aligns with the funds data available on the Bloomberg Terminal to support investment workflows consistently and with scale across an enterprise.
  • Bloomberg's Funds Data Solution provides data on a comprehensive global universe of funds including mutual funds, fund of funds, closed/open-end funds, unit trusts and more as well as exchange traded products (ETPs) including ETFs, ETCs, and ETNs.
  • Bloomberg's Funds Data Solution seamlessly integrates with other Bloomberg data solutions by using standardized identifiers, such as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), proprietary Bloomberg identifiers, and detailed metadata.
  • Bloomberg's Funds Data is available on the Bloomberg Terminal and to Enterprise Data customers via Data License.

Bloomberg and Burgiss Form Integration to Deliver Custom Reporting for Private Equity Assets

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

NEW YORK, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced it has formed a certified integration with Burgiss, a global provider of private capital and multi-asset class solutions, to provide a custom report for the firms' mutual clients, which will be delivered directly to Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, a leading portfolio and risk analytics business.

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  • Through the integration, mutual clients will receive a cash flow report that is automatically delivered by Burgiss directly to PORT Enterprise via FTP.
  • This includes instruments that have been traditionally difficult to track and measure and demonstrates a commitment to continued investment in private capital data.
  • "With that goal in mind, we are pleased to be working closely with Bloomberg to provide seamless integration of Burgiss Data into PORT Enterprise for mutual clients."
  • PORT and PORT Enterprise are part of Bloomberg Buy-Side Solutions, which deliver front-to-back technology for the investment lifecycle.

Object Management Group Hosts Workshop about Financial Industry Standards

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

BOSTON, MA, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the international technology standards organization Object Management Group ® (OMG®) announced it is hosting an industry workshop, “ Preparing for New Financial Industry Standards ,” in response to the recent Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA).

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  • BOSTON, MA, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the international technology standards organization Object Management Group ® (OMG®) announced it is hosting an industry workshop, “ Preparing for New Financial Industry Standards ,” in response to the recent Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA).
  • To date, OMG has generated more than 260 technology standards that provide quantifiable real-world value across all industries, including finance, with the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and the Financial Instrument Global Identifier ® (FIGI®) standards.
  • "OMG experts will discuss how our members develop data standards, what makes good financial standards, and how they drive business growth.
  • Financial industry stakeholders will also discuss the impact of FDTA and the opportunities it opens.”
    REGISTER: Please register for in-person or virtual attendance.

NFC Forum Unveils Global Identifier as “Beyond Payments” Accelerates

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The NFC Forum , the global standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, unveiled today the Wayfinding Mark, a new global identifier created to indicate a device or object is NFC-enabled.

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  • The NFC Forum , the global standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, unveiled today the Wayfinding Mark, a new global identifier created to indicate a device or object is NFC-enabled.
  • The explosion of digital devices has caused a dramatic shift in the use of NFC technology, propelling it beyond payment applications to new areas and uses, creating the need for an NFC global identifier.
  • We are seeing a global trend of the expanding use of NFC.
  • The NFC Wayfinding Mark was created to allow consumers to visually recognize an object as having NFC and easily locate the NFC connecting point.

Bloomberg Releases New Common Data Format 3.1 Dataset for Legal Entity Identifiers

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced it has released the New Common Data Format 3.1 for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and received a second accreditation as an LEI issuer for funds. As an accredited Local Operating Unit of the Global LEI System, Bloomberg can issue and maintain LEIs through its web portal lei.bloomberg.com or on The Bloomberg Terminal at LEI . To streamline capturing the new data requirements of CDF 3.1, Bloomberg revamped its LEI web portal with an enhanced user experience, additional functionality and greater storage capacity.

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  • New LEI data format increases transparency of legal entity types, relationships and events
    NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced it has released the New Common Data Format 3.1 for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and received a second accreditation as an LEI issuer for funds.
  • Steve Meizanis, Global Head of Symbology and LEI Services at Bloomberg, comments: "As an accredited issuer of LEIs, Bloomberg welcomes the new Common Data Formats.
  • This newest Common Data Format, published by the Global LEI Foundation, now includes six Entity Category data fields that depict the type of legal entity, such as investment fund or government entity, as well as residential government entities, types of fund relationships and corporate events like name or address changes.
  • The inclusion of Legal Entity Event data, for example, will ensure the Global LEI System delivers the most accurate and up to date information about legal entities as they evolve.

Bloomberg and Elwood Technologies Announce Integration to Enrich Institutional Cryptocurrency Capabilities

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg and Elwood Technologies today announced a strategic integration enabling investments from clients using Elwood's market-leading cryptocurrency trading platform to flow directly into Bloomberg AIM, a leading buy-side order management system (OMS).

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg and Elwood Technologies today announced a strategic integration enabling investments from clients using Elwood's market-leading cryptocurrency trading platform to flow directly into Bloomberg AIM, a leading buy-side order management system (OMS).
  • Elwood will adopt the Financial Instrument Global Identifier ( FIGI ) for crypto assets as the common identifier for the integration.
  • "We are very pleased to be able to offer Bloomberg AIM clients integrated access to Elwood's market-leading cryptocurrency trading platform.
  • The integration is expected to be completed and available for mutual clients of Elwood and Bloomberg AIM in Q2 2022.

Bloomberg and Kaiko Issue First Financial Instrument Global Identifiers for Crypto Assets

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Thursday, October 14, 2021

NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Bloomberg and Kaiko are pleased to announce the issuance of the first series of Financial Instrument Global Identifiers covering crypto assets.

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Bloomberg and Kaiko are pleased to announce the issuance of the first series of Financial Instrument Global Identifiers covering crypto assets.
  • The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is an open standard of the Object Management Group (OMG), for the issuance of unique identifiers assigned to financial instruments including equities, derivatives, bonds, municipals, and currencies.
  • Today, Kaiko and Bloomberg officially released the first batch of FIGIs for all Bitcoin and Ethereum instruments denominated in fiat currencies.
  • FIGIs for crypto assets enable interoperability between industry participants such as digital asset exchanges, data aggregators, custodians, service providers, and regulators.

ASC X9 Publishes U.S. Standard for the Financial Instrument Global Identifier

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The FIGI is an open data standard that provides guidelines for identifying and creating context-specific data models of financial instruments.

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  • The FIGI is an open data standard that provides guidelines for identifying and creating context-specific data models of financial instruments.
  • "FIGI serves as a non-changing, unique identifier that provides broad coverage of global financial instruments without performance and cost restraints.
  • "Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X9 is pleased that we could work with Bloomberg and our broader community to develop an industry standard for the FIGI identifier.
  • The X9.145 FIGI standard is the first X9 data standard incorporating the MIT Open Source License, in which the data created and identified within the standard will be available to the public.

Object Management Group Announces Kaiko to Expand Financial Instruments Global Identifier® (FIGI®) Standard for Crypto Assets

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Kaiko has been approved as Certified Provider of FIGI for crypto assets, working under the auspices of the Object Management Group (OMG) and alongside Bloomberg LP in their role as Registration Agent, to expand the open data standard to blockchain-based digital assets.

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  • Kaiko has been approved as Certified Provider of FIGI for crypto assets, working under the auspices of the Object Management Group (OMG) and alongside Bloomberg LP in their role as Registration Agent, to expand the open data standard to blockchain-based digital assets.
  • A webinar, Expansion of FIGI (Financial Instruments Global Identifier) for Crypto Assets ," will air on February 8, 2021 at 11am ET and on demand following.
  • In 2009, Bloomberg released an Open Symbology product: The Financial Instruments Global Identifier (FIGI), a system for identifying financial instruments across asset classes.
  • Note to editors: Object Management Group and OMG are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group.

Cadence Works with Bloomberg to Assign FIGIs to All Its Issued Digital Investment Products

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

NEW YORK, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --In a tremendous step forward for the industry, Cadence has been assigned Financial Instrument Global Identifiers (FIGIs) for all digital investment products issued on its platform.

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  • NEW YORK, June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --In a tremendous step forward for the industry, Cadence has been assigned Financial Instrument Global Identifiers (FIGIs) for all digital investment products issued on its platform.
  • The move further solidifies Cadence as a market leader in supporting identification and evolution of digital assets.
  • With their public launch this month and the introduction of FIGIs, Cadence's investment products are poised to gain further traction at an institutional level.
  • Cadence is the only platform built with both institutional and retail investors in mind, integrating directly into their existing workflows with high yield, short duration investment products.