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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...

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for transaction reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is complemented by Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), which builds out transaction reporting requirements with a number of new reporting obligations. The data and data management challenges of reporting include an increase in instruments that must be reported and the addition of several new fields to...

Recorded Webinar: Trade/Order Tracking & Time-Stamping for Regulatory Compliance

At the beginning of 2018 in Europe, and before the end of 2017 in the US, new time-stamping requirements will come into force, under European MiFID II regulation and the US SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) project. The RTS 25 provision of MiFID II sets exact millisecond and microsecond levels for time-stamp accuracy depending on...

Recorded Webinar: Data management implications of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is two years away. Significant data management changes and challenges presented by the regulation call for an early start on implementation. The webinar will discuss the challenges of FRTB and provide practical guidance on how best to achieve efficient and effective compliance. Listen to the webinar to find...

Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI

The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need...

Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: Data for best execution

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) strengthens the best execution requirement embedded in MiFID by expanding disclosure. Among the directive’s requirements are provisions to ensure investment firms provide appropriate information to clients on their order execution policy and publish a list of the top five execution venues used in the previous year for...

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...

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...

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the high stakes challenge of effective sanctions data monitoring

Identifying securities related to a sanctioned domicile or company is a straightforward concept, but in practice, it is a far more challenging task for compliance professionals. Receiving a list of sanctions isn’t enough. In order to accurately define and maintain your ‘do not trade’ list, you need to identify all the securities related to each...

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II

The compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) has been pushed back a year to January 2018, giving financial institutions within its scope an opportunity to take a strategic rather than tactical approach to implementation. But whatever the approach, the scale of the regulation is large and the data management challenge...