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Recorded Webinar: Learning from MiFID II for CAT reporting and data management
Compliance with the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation is just over 18 months away, meaning broker dealers within the scope of the regulation need to get started on their response. Like Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), CAT reporting presents significant – and similar – data management challenges, particularly around customer, account…
The Regulatory Stick and Beneficial Carrot of Data Governance
If the stick behind data governance is regulatory compliance, the carrot is business and operational benefit stretching to revenue creation, reduced expenditure, better customer satisfaction and improved data to solve business problems. The challenges and opportunities of data governance were discussed during this week’s A-Team Group webinar, A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Data Governance…
Recorded Webinar: Step-by-step guide to implementing a data governance framework
Implementing a data governance framework is essential for many financial institutions, but the task is difficult and often complex. The webinar will take a step-by-step approach to implementation considering everything from identifying priority data that must be governed to automating data governance processes, allocating data ownership and responsibility, and sustaining data governance in a dynamic…
Recorded Webinar: Voice recording for communications surveillance under MIFID II/MAR
To date, the industry’s regulatory compliance focus for upcoming European MiFID II and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) has been on issues including the structure of trading facilities, systematic internalisation, governance, best execution and time-stamping. MiFID II and MAR also contain provisions, however, increasing the requirements for recording and archiving voice communication related to securities trading….
Recorded Webinar: Using metrics to measure data quality
Measuring data quality is on the data management agenda at many financial firms as they seek to reduce operational costs, meet regulatory requirements and identify new product potential. The webinar will consider how metrics can be implemented to provide meaningful measures of data quality that can be used across the firm, solutions for data quality…
BCBS Says Bank Compliance with Risk Aggregation Principles is Unsatisfactory
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) reports that the level of compliance with its principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting is unsatisfactory at globally systematically important banks (G-SIBS). It urges the banks to step up their efforts and recommends that they should develop clear roadmaps to achieve full compliance, supervisors should communicate…
The Data Management Response to a Volatile Regulatory Landscape
The data management response to a regulatory landscape that is volatile and uncertain should be strategic, agile and future proof. It should also consider technology options including cloud, machine learning and blockchain. The need for a strategic approach to regulation at a time when US President Trump intends to repeal some financial legislation and the…
Hundreds of Data Practitioners Join A-Team Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit was a cracking event that discussed everything from creating value from data to navigating the changing regulatory landscape, improving data governance and quality, client onboarding, big data, data visualisation and more. Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) was also on the agenda, with panel sessions reviewing the…
Hany Choueiri Argues the Case for Information Standards
The biggest challenge to the fourth industrial revolution that will put artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and big data centre stage is a lack of widely agreed information standards caused by obsession with technology rather than information. Hany Choueiri, head of data governance and strategy, EMEA, at State Street, discussed the need for capital markets to…
Informatica Builds Out Data Governance Through Diaku Acquisition
Informatica is building out its data governance capability following the late February acquisition of UK data governance software and consulting company Diaku. The company has introduced Informatica Axon, a solution based on Diaku’s flagship Axon data governance technology and integrated the software with its Intelligent Data Platform. The integration adds data governance to data quality,…