Upcoming Webinar: Sponsored by FundGuard: NAV Resilience Under DORA, A Year of Lessons Learned
Date: 25 February 2026
Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force a year ago, and is reshaping how asset managers, asset owners and fund service providers think about operational risk. While DORA’s focus is squarely on ICT resilience and third-party dependencies, its implications extend deep into core operational processes that are critical to market integrity, investor protection and regulatory confidence.
For the fund industry, NAV production sits at the centre of this challenge. NAV workflows depend on complex operating models spanning fund accounting platforms, pricing and valuation data, reconciliations, exception management, and sign-off controls – all of which rely heavily on third-party providers and shared digital infrastructure. When systemic disruption occurs, resilience is tested not by whether controls exist on paper, but by whether firms can recover accurately, at scale, and timely.
This A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight webinar, sponsored by FundGuard, brings together a panel of subject matter experts and senior industry practitioners to examine NAV resilience through the DORA lens. The discussion focuses on recovery capability, third-party dependency risk, and what firms need to evidence to boards and supervisors when NAV operations are disrupted – moving beyond theory into operational reality.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Interpret DORA’s ICT pillars and practical expectations for NAV-critical processes – without conflating third-party disruption with internal processing failures.
- Assess whether current NAV operating models are genuinely recoverable under systemic disruption, not just isolated incidents.
- Identify where third-party dependencies – administrators, custodians, pricing sources, data providers and cloud platforms – introduce hidden resilience and concentration risks.
- Design incident response and recovery playbooks for NAV disruption, including escalation, roles, rehearsals and evidence – so recovery is executable under time pressure.
- Approach resilience testing for NAV workflows, including scenario design, rehearsals and evidence generation.
- Prepare senior management and fund boards for regulator-led scrutiny of NAV recovery decisions and remediation outcomes.
- Translate operational resilience requirements into practical questions for technology, operations and service providers.
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Speakers:
More about our speakers:
Adrian Whelan
Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory Intelligence for Investor Services
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH)
Adrian Whelan is a Senior Vice President and Head of Regulatory Intelligence for Investor Services at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), based in Dublin. In this role, he is responsible for articulating the impact of regulatory change on asset managers and the industry in which they operate. Mr. Whelan is the lead contributor to BBH’s On The Regs blog, where he regularly shares insights on global regulatory topics. Mr. Whelan is active in the Investment Company Institute, the International Securities Lending Association, Irish Funds and Investment Association, and other global industry bodies and working groups focused on education and advocacy for regulatory and policy changes impacting the asset management and banking industries.
Antony Slee
Emea Sales Lead
FundGuard
Antony Slee is responsible for leading FundGuard’s business development initiatives across EMEA. Prior to joining FundGuard, Antony worked as a senior leader with some of the world’s leading financial organisations and technology solution providers, responsible for developing go-to-market strategies and execution in support of international business growth.
Antony has successfully grown revenue in several geographic regions, with a proven track record of developing new business, as well as breaking into new markets/regions to develop new opportunities. Antony understands complex operating models and business requirements, whereby he has helped financial institutions design and deliver strategic enterprise-wide solutions, providing guidance from both a business and technology perspective.
Antony has gained numerous professional qualifications, including the Financial Planning Certificate (FPC), Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ), Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and Level One of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Moderator: Joy Macknight
Editorial Contributor
A-Team Group
Joy Macknight is a journalist/editor who has covered the global financial services industry for more than 20 years. Most recently, she was editor of The Banker, a Financial Times publication.
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