Tony Coates

Anthony B. Coates (Tony) is Dir­ector and CTO of Londata Lim­ited, a UK con­sultancy that spe­cial­ises in XML and data modelling.

Tony is an expert in the design and use of XML, espe­cially for bank­ing and fin­ance, and con­trib­utes to the industry by work­ing to advance the stand­ard­isa­tion of meth­od­o­lo­gies for work­ing with XML and elec­tronic mes­sages or doc­u­ments. Tony is the cre­ator and editor of the OASIS gen­ericode spe­cific­a­tion for code lists. He is an act­ive par­ti­cipant in the devel­op­ment of the ISO 20022 meth­od­o­logy for model-based design of XML Schemas for bank­ing and fin­ance, and is the Prin­cipal UK Expert to the ISO work­ing group (TC68/WG4). He is also a par­ti­cipant in the devel­op­ment of UN/CEFACT’s Core Com­pon­ents Tech­nical Spe­cific­a­tion (CCTS) and the UN/CEFACT Con­text Meth­od­o­logy (UCM).

Since mov­ing to Lon­don in 2000, Tony has worked on pro­jects for a num­ber of major fin­an­cial insti­tu­tions there, as well as for gov­ern­ment. Much of this work has been in archi­tec­ture and design of cor­por­ate data mod­els and mes­sage sets.

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