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Marc Murphy - Fenergo - London | 17/01/2013 | 2754 views

FATCA - a continuous data management process

The FATCA regulations have been widely tipped to be arriving very soon. However, multiple date changes so far for final FATCA regulations have created a huge amount of uncertainty in the market, which has contributed to making it increasingly difficult for financial institutions to map out product/project timeframes. Nevertheless, even in the abse... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale banking

Fiona Cummins - Fenergo - Dublin | 22/10/2012 | 2656 views

FATCA solved with spreadsheets: Regulatory Class A offence?

The FATCA introduction date (1st January 2013) is looming large and focusing the attention of financial institutions on what needs to be done. From my conversations with several financial institutions over the last few weeks, it’s clear that they are busy analysing the IGA or ‘full-fat’ FATCA agreements (depending on their locatio... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale banking

Geoff Harries - DST Global Solutions - London | 09/10/2012 | 1483 views

Optimising Fund Pricing Operations

With reference to the ‘Unlocking Transformational Efficiency in Fund Operations’ posting on the Tabb Forum, Unit Pricing is a prime example of a function firms should invest in for continuous improvement. Conflicting business drivers of cost reduction and seamless capacity for growth have initiated a ‘back to core’ focus am... Tags: Risk & regulation, Sibos

Marc Murphy - Fenergo - London | 22/08/2012 | 3506 views | 4 comments

The FATCA Automation Challenge

As we near summer’s end, many of us will be experiencing that old familiar “back to school” feeling, as we refocus our thoughts and plans towards the forthcoming term. In financial services, the focus will be very much on the imminent finalisation and arrival of new regulations – particularly FATCA. It’s true to say t... Tags: Risk & regulation

Marc Murphy - Fenergo - London | 07/08/2012 | 2632 views

LEI... the silver bullet to truly cleansed legal entity data

The introduction of the proposed Standard Legal Identifier (LEI) is a golden opportunity for many financial institutions to enhance and improve overall client data management and achieve the coveted cleansed legal entity data repository. The ability to assign a single, unique identifier to each and every legal entity - that can be shared both withi... Tags: Risk & regulation, Wholesale banking