Glossary
Every term between trade and settlement.
The authoritative golden record of reference data — identifiers, static attributes, and lifecycle parameters — for every instrument a firm can trade, settle, or report.
The IBOR — a real-time position record used by investment managers, capturing unsettled trades, accruals, and corporate actions ahead of custodian confirmation and ABOR settlement.
OTC digital asset derivatives documented under ISDA frameworks, covering confirmations, price sources, margin, collateral, close-out netting, and lifecycle controls.
International financial messaging standard where sese.023 settlement instructions and sese.025 confirmations replace legacy SWIFT MT54x messages, enabling richer settlement data, STP, and interoperability across global custodians and CSDs.
20-character alphanumeric code under ISO 17442 that uniquely identifies legal entities in financial transactions, required for MiFID II, EMIR, and CAT regulatory reporting, and the primary party identifier in ISO 20022 sese.023 settlement instructions.
A two-person segregation of duties control requiring that any action entered by one operator must be reviewed and approved by a second before it takes effect.
The ISO 10383 four-character code that identifies trading venues, operating markets, and market segments for enrichment, reporting, and post-trade routing.
The authoritative reference layer for countries, currencies, venues, CSDs, settlement rules, tax signals, sanctions evidence, and market infrastructure.
The EU regulatory framework governing crypto-asset issuance and service provision — covering EMT and ART stablecoins, CASP authorization, and travel rule compliance — fully operational since December 2024.