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As specialists in the use and customisation of data standards across capital markets and global payments, we enhance and customize your data and validate its quality.
TradeHeader’s offering in the area of financial data standards spans consulting, DevOps, and training. We have extensive expertise in OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives products and in messaging standards such as FpML, CDM, FIX Protocol, and ISO 20022. We don’t just know these standards – we are closely involved in their design, their evolution and their stewardship.
TradeHeader’s clients include central banks, investment banks, asset managers, custodians, exchanges, service providers, and technology companies. Our bespoke solutions have included:
- The analysis, implementation, and testing of the Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) project using CDM. DRR is the coding of regulatory rules for CFTC rewrite and EMIR in CDM. The rules are coded and the functional logic of each rule is implemented and distributed in multiple programming languages in an open source license.
- The creation of an Islamic Financial Products Data Standard based on FpML and CDM. Leverages the Shari’ah-compliant legal standardisation work led by IIFM and ISDA.
- Digitalisation of derivatives legal documents, including the 2021 ISDA Interest Rate Definitions, the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement, and more. This project included the transformation of a number of ISDA legal documents in DITA XML format and the storage in a Central Content Management System. We also developed a web service API to extract and publish relevant reference data used by trading systems.
- The development of an internal messaging standard extending FIX/FIXML, FpML, and ISO 20022 for a global investment bank. We created a messaging model for multiple projects within the bank including: Dodd-Frank and EMIR reporting; a new electronic trading platform; an internal trade repository; reference data and market data; and real-time credit limit checking; payments.
- Training and consulting around the development of a new FpML-based trade repository and reporting service in Hong Kong. This project included a review of the repository’s design and functionality; product data representation; reporting specification via CSV and FpML; the creation of testing scenarios and test data. We also provided FpML training for the development team.
- Regulatory-related analysis of trade repositories and data reporting for CFTC, EMIR, SFTR, HKMA.
Read our Case Study on Internal Messaging for an Investment Bank
“ TradeHeader’s expertise was very important for the foundation of the internal messaging at our bank, based on different financial industry protocols. TradeHeader guided us on our first steps on this project, with their valuable vision of the industry, including their knowledge on FpML, FixML, and ISO20022... and their experience developing similar projects in the past. ”
Additional consultancy projects and initiatives with a messaging component undertaken by TradeHeader include:
We are members of ISDA, FINOS, FpML, and the FIX Trading Community




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