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Harmonising the Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is key to financial institutions, but it can be costly and difficult to achieve in an environment where new regulations are constantly on the horizon and must be implemented efficiently and effectively. This White Paper, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and based on a survey of close to 70 senior data managers, discusses how…
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…
Asset Control CEO Mark Hepsworth Sets Out Plans for the Company
Two months into his role as CEO of Asset Control, we caught up with Mark Hepsworth to find out more about his plans for the company and its clients, including a proactive approach to developing specific products to meet client needs, offering a more standards-based platform, and strengthening the company with new hires across technology,…
Fine Lines Between FCA and EU on MiFID II
By Dan Barnes UK markets regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has issued its consultation on the implementation of MiFID II, with some significant differences to the rules published by the European Commission, particularly for the buy side. The level of surprise these changes hold for firms will typically depend on their size and investment…
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…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: AI, Machine Learning and the Intelligent EMS
In our ongoing exploration of how to inject intelligence into today’s super-fast, highly regulated and highly competitive markets, we like to pick the brains of practitioners who’ve been at the forefront of innovation in this narrow space. With our Intelligent Trading Summit in London just a few months away – February 2, to be precise…
General Data Protection Regulation – Start Now to Meet May 2018 Compliance Deadline
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on the radar of most financial services firms, but its scale, scope and large penalties for non-compliance mean firms need to start planning and implementing now to meet the May 2018 compliance deadline. The requirements of GDPR and how to build a data protection framework to achieve and evidence…
Beneficial Ownership Data Adds Complexity to Compliant Client Onboarding
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes continue to be pain points for many banks, but the story does not end here, with increasing regulatory requirements raising additional challenges around beneficial ownership data. The problem of integrating beneficial ownership data with client onboarding and KYC systems was addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinar….
Recorded Webinar: Solving the problem of integrating beneficial ownership data with client onboarding and KYC systems
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are becoming more complex as regulation drives towards the inclusion of beneficial ownership data and requires financial institutions to improve customer due diligence still further. The webinar will discuss the need for beneficial ownership data, how it can be sourced and how it can be efficiently and…
Anyone for MiFID III?
By Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa I was chatting with the Reg folks here at Fidessa Towers yesterday and the spectre of MiFID III came up. Before you all jump off the window ledge, there is no official notion of this yet, but when will the regulators feel that their work really is…