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FSB: work needed on consistent data standards

Public- and private-sector experts have worked hard over the past three years to develop the framework for a global legal entity identifier system, but more effort is needed to create consistent data standards for financial instruments and transactions, write Irina Leonova and Nigel Jenkinson

Life preserver floating on binary data

A lack of globally consistent, high-quality data was one of the key factors in the build-up of so much of the unnoticed risk in the financial system prior to 2008, regulators now agree. Under the oversight of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a collection of public- and private-sector groups have worked to address these failings, initially focusing on a global legal entity identification system

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