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Marc Gratacos

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Unlocking Reporting Reusability with Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR)

With regulatory change now the rule rather than an exception, do firms need to start from scratch when managing new regulatory compliance? Compliance - A race worth winning Achieving regulatory compliance is no longer a one-off project, it is now an ongoing fact of life for financial services businesses. It is not a sprint any longer, it is a mara...

09 April 2025 /regulation Regulatory Reporting

Derivatives Market Regulatory Compliance in 2025: Key Trends and Changes

As we look ahead to 2025, the derivatives market is set to experience another pivotal year of regulatory transformation. Regulatory compliance is no longer a ‘one-and-done’ project. It has become a continuous journey of adaptation, technology development and adoption, and strategic thinking. Regulatory reporting compliance is now a dynamic landsca...

04 February 2025 /regulation /predictions Regulatory Reporting

Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) - your compliance SatNav and regulatory lane assist

Digital Regulatory Reporting can ensure that you adopt common interpretations of the regulations. Like lane assist in cars today, DRR will keep you on track and sound an alarm if you begin to stray off course. Destination compliance As is well understood by now, the only constant in regulatory compliance is that regulation updates endlessly. F...

20 November 2024 /regulation Regulatory Reporting

SFTR and the need for data integration and management

Background With the European Union’s Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) countdown clock ticking, the industry is awaiting the official publication by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) of the ISO 20022 format for the standardised reporting of securities financing transactions. The goal of the SFTR is to enhance t...

07 November 2019 /regulation Capital Markets Technology

A couple of reflections on the 25th ISITC Annual Operations Summit

The ISITC Annual Operations Summit, held in Boston on March 24-27 2019, was focused on data disruption impacting the securities industry. Many interesting topics were discussed but I would like to focus on a couple of ones that caught my attention since they were discussed in many of the sessions. Data abstraction and simplification In many sessio...

28 March 2019 API

The Inaugural ISITC Europe Market Innovation Summit 2019

The ISITC Europe's inaugural Market Innovation Summit, held in London on January 24, introduced current topics in the area of innovation with an impact to the financial industry. Collateral Management is key for the European Central Bank After T2S, the next priority for the European Central Bank (ECB) is collateral management. During what was a ver...

25 January 2019 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

Product categorization

With the pressures around regulatory compliance only continuing to intensify, the critical role played in the reporting of financial transactions by product category codes has come into ever sharper focus. Product categorization involves comparing products that may be structurally very similar in 99% of their features – it is the remaining 1% that ...

17 December 2018 /regulation Financial Services Regulation

Reflections on FIX Trading France 2018

The FIX Trading Community’s second annual France Trading Briefing, held in Paris on November 22, picked up the baton and ran with a number of themes already touched on at its September Nordics briefing. Ongoing digestion of MiFID II MiFID II continues to exert a powerful gravitational pull, and the ongoing evolution of the regulation and its impac...

03 December 2018 /regulation MiFID

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