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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,…

GoldenSource Combines RiskHub and EDM to Deliver FRTB Solution

GoldenSource has combined its RiskHub risk data management and analytics capabilities with its enterprise data management (EDM) software to deliver a solution for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation that comes into force in January 2019. The GoldenSource solution will be available to banks from January 2017 and supports both the standard and…

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…

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…

A-Team DMS Tackles Challenges of Big Data, Regulation, Data Value and More

A-Team Group’s New York City Data Management Summit (DMS) kicked off with a keynote presentation on the 800lb gorilla of big data, and panel discussions dedicated to regulation and the data management response for 2017, and challenges that are keeping chief data officers (CDOs) awake at night. Michael Stonebraker, adjunct professor at MIT and co-founder…

Recorded Webinar: Shareholding Disclosure: Are Financial Firms on top of this regulatory challenge?

With MiFID 2, Basel, 871(m) and other more talked about regulations making headlines firms have their hands full. However, as regulators begin to focus on systemic risk the accuracy of disclosures is gaining greater attention. Listen to this webinar for a discussion on the following shareholding disclosure topics: What the shareholder disclosure requirements are, and…

Best Practice Approaches to Economic Sanctions and Related Securities

Economic sanctions can pose difficult data management and compliance problems, particularly at the securities level, but automated services that identify and manage securities related to sanctions can help firms improve compliance and avoid penalties for breaches. The challenges of effective sanctions data monitoring, as well as the opportunities of getting this right, were discussed during…

Winners of the 2016 Data Management Review Awards

This year’s DMR awards ceremony was a tremendous event with 18 award winners, an entertaining address by guest speaker Mark Foster, one of Britain’s most decorated male swimmers, and a five-star lunch in the splendour of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. A-Team Group CEO, Angela Wilbraham, and President, Andrew Delaney, hosted the event and were joined…