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A. FIG is an advisory company with a specialization in organizing joint ventures amongst financial institutions. They organized the largest globally active industry members over 5 years ago to solve the reference data problem. That group provided valuable insight into to the FIG/GS1 proposal as the issue became known to regulators and was formalized into legislation through the Dodd-Frank Act.
