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Entity Data Management Handbook – Third Edition

Welcome to the third edition of the Entity Data Management Handbook which is available for free download. In this updated edition we delve into the role entity data plays in the smooth running of financial institutions and capital markets, the challenges of attaining high quality data, and various aspects, approaches and technologies involved in managing…

Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance – Two sides of the same coin?

By Andrew Sexton, sales and marketing director, Curium Data Systems There is no doubt that data governance is rising up the agenda at many financial institutions, driven both by an increasing regulatory focus on good data as well as a firm’s internal focus on improving data quality and applying ‘fit for purpose’ data to key…

Recorded Webinar: Data management approaches for the buy-side

Buy-side firms are grasping the nettle of data management with a view to driving business transformation programmes, dealing with data fragmentation and quality issues, streamlining operations and achieving effective cost management. The webinar will discuss how the buy-side is embedding data management, the challenges it faces and lessons it is learning from the sell-side. Listen…

How to Get Data Lineage Right for Regulatory Compliance and Change

Data lineage for regulatory compliance continues to be a challenge, with financial institutions citing problems including managing lineage across multiple systems and new and changing regulatory requirements during a recent A-Team Group webinar on tracking data lineage for regulatory compliance and change. If these are the challenges, a poll of the webinar audience showed that…

Recorded Webinar: Tracking data lineage for regulatory compliance and change

The benefits of successful data lineage are significant, allowing financial firms to gain a better understanding of their applications and data, switch off unnecessary systems and data feeds, save costs, and support the business with the right data at the right time. The webinar will consider the complexities of tracking data lineage for regulatory compliance…

Cyoda Proposes a Paradigm Shift in Data Processing Technology

Cyoda has set out to cut the complexity and cost of data processing and reporting with a distributed and limitlessly scalable straight-through-processing platform that delivers fast, accurate and tracked data for business use cases including regulatory reporting and internal reporting across large volumes of disparate data. The platform challenges traditional relational database management systems and…

Recorded Webinar: Are you ready for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

The data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are significant and must be tackled soon to ensure compliance in just over a year on 25 May 2018. The regulation makes many extensions to existing European data privacy rules, adds new obligations and pitches fines for non-compliance at up to 4% of turnover. Listen…

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…

RegTek Delivers Tactical Software to Support Strategic Approaches to Regulation

RegTek Solutions, a subsidiary of Risk Focus formed early this year, has introduced EMIR-Ready, a regulatory readiness testing and validation service designed to help firms within the scope of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) comply with changes to the regulation’s Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that come into play on 1 November 2017. EMIR-Ready is a…

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…