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Countdown to GDPR
Time is running out: the compliance deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is May 25, 2018, and with fines running up to 4% of annual turnover or €20 million for firms that fail to protect European citizens’ personal data, no-one can afford to take this EU data privacy law lightly. From a data management…
Silwood Offers Safyr Metadata Discovery Software to Support GDPR Compliance
Silwood Technology, provider of Safyr metadata discovery software, has turned its attention to how firms running vendor application packages can meet the May 25, 2018 compliance deadline for General Data Protections Regulation (GDPR). The company has researched five large and widely used application packages – SAP, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Siebel and Oracle…
FCA Highlights Good and Bad Practice Across Five Areas of Algorithmic Trading
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a report on the supervision of algorithmic trading that focuses on five areas of algo trading compliance and highlights good and bad practice observed from cross-firm reviews. The FCA report coincides with publication of a consultation paper by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on proposed expectations regarding a…
Best Practice Approaches to GDPR Compliance
Compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an extensive undertaking for financial services firms, but it also generates benefits including reduced risk and cost, improved data security, new business cases, and the availability of trusted information for analytics. The challenges and opportunities of GDPR were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar moderated by…
Recorded Webinar: GDPR Programme Insights for GDPR Readiness
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect on May 25, 2018, requiring financial institutions to meet stringent new rules on managing the personal data of EU residents, and setting astronomic fines for those that fail to comply. The webinar will discuss the broad data management challenges posed by the regulation, the GDPR articles your data…
How to Turn Data Lineage from a Regulatory Response into a Business Advantage
‘Death, taxes…and regulation’. Benjamin Franklin’s only two certainties in life have a new addition, so the joke goes, as financial firms face a never-ending and burdensome blitz of regulatory reporting – BCBS 239, MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, GDPR, CCAR etc. etc. One partial solution to the new norm of constantly changing compliance is data lineage,…
Danske Bank Goes Live with Datactics RegMetrics to Validate Customer Data
Danske Bank UK has implemented Datactics’ RegMetrics data quality solution to improve its single view of customers in Northern Ireland. The bank concluded a successful proof of concept last summer, went live with RegMetrics this month, and is looking at additional use cases for the software. The bank looked at three solutions to enhance its…
The Governance, Risk and Compliance Trends Set to shape 2018
By: Doug Morgan, Group Chief Executive, Cordium The past few years have been challenging for the compliance teams of financial firms and 2018 will be no different – if anything, the pace of evolution is set to accelerate on a number fronts. From input gathered from clients and industry contacts, Cordium has pulled together a…
NeoXam Details Product Plans for 2018
After a period of intense activity, acquisition and reorganisation, NeoXam moves into 2018 with a focus on its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and DataHub solutions. It is also responding to customer requests to include standardised data in its solution modules and aiming to help asset managers deal with the challenges of regulation, data…
What Do You Think 2018 Holds in Store for the RegTech Industry?
By: Conor Coughlan, global head of risk, regulatory and compliance marketing, Financial and Risk Division, Thomson Reuters Looking forward and following current patterns of industry change and analysis, 2018 is going to be a pivotal year for regtech collaboration, service and solutions providers. In essence, the themes we can expect to see more of in…