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Fed’s Cease and Desist Order for RBS Highlights the Data Issues Underlying its AML and Risk Management Practices
The issuance of a joint consent cease and desist order by the US Federal Reserve Board and a number of other state regulators last week for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group’s New York, Illinois and Connecticut branches indicates some of the data issues underlying its risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance functions. The…
The AIFMD in Focus: Valuations and Data Reporting Requirements Incoming
The controversial Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which was first proposed in 2009, was published last month and is due to come into force over the next couple of years, includes key data related requirements such as increased transparency into valuations and new fund registration processes. A-Team Insight examines the latest and final version…
US Treasury’s Berner Expounds on the Benefits of the OFR, Discusses the LEI and an Upcoming Conference on Data
This week, the US government organised a roundtable event to discuss the developments around tracking systemic risk and the establishment of the Office of Financial Research. Representing the OFR, Richard Berner, counsellor to the US Department of the Treasury’s Tim Geithner, championed the benefits of reference data standardisation, the recent progress made around setting legal…
Sifma Led Industry Coalition Backs DTCC/Swift as Facilities Manager and Issuer for ISO LEI, ANNA for Support Role
It’s official, the frontrunners in the bid to act as issuer and facilities manager for the incoming legal entity identifier (LEI), Swift and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), have received the backing of the 17 strong Sifma led coalition of industry associations and firms (some interesting dynamics in the makeup of the group…
UK FSA Highlights “Serious Weaknesses” Within Firms’ AML and Customer Data Management Practices
As part of its crackdown on the industry’s systems and controls around anti-money laundering (AML) data, especially for politically exposed persons (PEPs), which it stepped up last year, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released the findings of a survey of these practices across the industry that highlights “serious weaknesses” in “many” firms. The…
Allan Boardman, of London, Appointed Director of ISACA
Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), CISSP, information risk manager at JP Morgan (UK), was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress: INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today. Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems…
EDM Council Plans Fee-based Data Quality Rulebook, Ramps up Semantics Proof of Concept Work
The EDM Council has this month indicated that it is considering a new fee-based service that would provide members with data quality rules that firms could embed in their quality review processes. The idea has gone to the association’s board for approval and if it receives the green light, will be discussed with the membership…
SAS’ Rogers Talks up the Data Detail Store Layer in its Risk Management Platform, Signals Imminent Capital Markets Focused Developments
Risk management solution provider SAS has this week launched the latest iteration of its risk management platform, which features a data integration layer that has been dubbed the SAS Detail Data Store (DDS) for Banking and aims to act as an intermediary between data warehouses and the risk analytics function. David Rogers, global product marketing…
Latest SAS Risk Management Offerings for Banking, Insurance Help Address Regulations, Risk
To address evolving risk management practices and regulatory requirements, such as Basel III and Solvency II, SAS has ramped up risk management solutions for both banking and insurance with enhancements to SAS Risk Management for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Insurance. Leading organizations relying on enterprise risk solutions from SAS, the leader in business…
US Regulatory Agencies Publish Op Risk Guidance Highlighting Importance of Data Inputs, Governance and Validation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), along with the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), have published their interagency guidance for operational risk as part of the US adoption of the advanced measurement approach (AMA) for risk-based…