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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…

Recorded Webinar: Approaches to managing corporate actions data

Corporate actions data is key to high quality reference data, which in turn is key to efficient and effective data management processes that support not only regulatory compliance, but also business initiatives. So, how best can corporate actions data be managed, what challenges does it present, and what solutions are available to help financial institutions…

General Data Protection Regulation – The Time to Implement is Now

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is broad, rigorous and challenging – and its compliance deadline is just 12 months away. So, how are organisations responding to the regulation, what progress are they making on implementation and what steps can they take to ensure compliance within the 12-month timeframe. These questions and more were answered in…

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…

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…

The Latest PRIIPs RTS

By Ronan Brennan, chief technology officer, Silverfinch The European Commission has published what is hopefully the final iteration of the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS), and with the European Parliament announcing that it has no objection to the new RTS, the industry has finally arrived at a point that…

Recorded Webinar: Putting data management processes in place for MiFID II

The January 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, so how ready are financial institutions to meet the directive’s requirements, what data management processes should they be prioritising to ensure compliance, and what outstanding challenges do they face? Also, what do regulators expect firms to have in…

Project Sentinel Makes Headway on MiFID II Compliance

Project Sentinel, a consortium of banks working to mutualise the cost of implementing Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) in the OTC front office, will pass a significant milestone on Monday 3 April when Adaptive, a software firm selected by Sentinel as a technology provider, will deliver the backbone of the Sentinel solution…

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…