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The Reference Data Utility Handbook
The potential of a reference data utility model has been discussed for many years, and while early implementations failed to gain traction, the model has now come of age as financial institutions look for new data management models that can solve the challenges of operational cost reduction, improved data quality and regulatory compliance. The multi-tenanted…
2017 – The Year of Data
2017 may be the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, but in the capital markets calendar it is the Year of Data – data that will drive regulatory compliance, business transformation, client satisfaction, improved performance and more! Of course, data has been in the picture since way before the last Year of the…
A Web of Complexity
By Martijn Groot, vice president of product management, Asset Control At the centre of financial services risk management and regulatory compliance is the convergence of data from a huge range of information silos, departments, product lines, customers and risk categories. Risk and finance are at the end of an extensive chain, examining the consolidated threads,…
The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage
Data lineage is driven by regulation and impeded by technology complexity and poor understanding, although once these impediments are tackled, successful implementation can yield significant business and operational benefits. The challenges and opportunities of establishing a sustainable solution for data lineage were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar that was hosted by A-Team editor…
Recorded Webinar: The missing piece of the data governance puzzle
Effective data governance delivers data quality and controls across the enterprise, and ensures financial institutions can meet regulators’ demands for transparency and full audit trails. But current approaches to data governance that rely on software and policies are ineffective without the right metadata flowing through them. Listen to us on this webinar where we will…
IHS Markit and Oliver Wyman Detail Risk Factor Modellability Service for FRTB
The collaboration between IHS Markit and Oliver Wyman that is developing a risk factor modellability service to help banks determine whether risk factors can be modelled in line with the requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) will deliver a validated methodology that banks can use in the regulatory approval process around…
Recorded Webinar: How to establish a sustainable solution for data lineage
The implementation of data lineage is complex but necessary, driven by regulation such as BCBS 239 and internal needs to gain a better understanding of risk, reduce systems complexity and eliminate duplicate data and processes. The webinar will discuss the essential elements of data lineage, how they can be implemented, and the beneficial outcomes of…
Data Management Summit Discusses How Best to Set up and Develop Data Governance
Data governance was a hot topic at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) in New York City with Sanjay Saxena, head of enterprise data governance at Northern Trust, presenting best practices for setting up data governance, a panel discussing how to evolve data governance, and many more questions being asked and comments being made on…
Governance And Privacy Are Getting Married
By Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMworks Announcement! The governance community is getting married to the privacy community. But how do we make sure the marriage is long and happy? The challenges are many and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one example of a flood of privacy/trust laws that will impact the couple. The…
Data Lineage and Traceability: Using Data to Improve your Data
By Brian Sentance, CEO of Xenomorph Enterprise Data Management (EDM) is, to state the obvious, a data-centric process (the clue is in the name!). But while financial institutions have placed evermore emphasis on ensuring the accuracy of their reference and market data, the need to maintain clearer insights into EDM systems and processes has also…