A really good piece on the importance of data and their critical role to the efforts of regulators and market participants to ensure that the financial markets are underpinned by a robust infrastructure in order to monitor and offset risk effectively. More details here at Reuters where Mark Davies, Head of Avox writes. Avox is a wholly owned subsidiary of DTCC and operates the CICIutility.org Maria L. Bill: Also see the story where Bloomberg allege that the CICI database has 600 duplicate entries, and records with missing addresses, which DTCC refute. http://www.waterstechnology.com/inside-reference-data/news/2262830/data-validator-criticizes-dtccs-identifier-database