At TSS 27 financial institutions agreed that there was an opportunity to scale trade surveillance controls by creating new ‘Digital Surveillance Rules’ (DSR). This meeting is to discuss the use cases, outcomes and key success factors to build on existing surveillance guidance to  conduct a CDM-based PoC.  Research has shown that standardized business events and data dictionaries can streamline the…

Background: The EU digital asset agenda is not all about MiCA. To offer digital assets in Europe and the UK, firms and their suppliers will need to adhere to the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and corresponding UK regime in Q1 2025. Key insight: JWG, the industry’s regulatory think-tank has used its AI-natural language…

Early estimates of this summer’s Crowd Strike impact are put at $1 billion. With 29% of organisations experiencing significant cyber incidents each year, board rooms are alive to the risks, and the impending regulatory deadlines. EU’s DORA is 100 days away on 17 January 2025 and the UK OpRes (PS 21/3) has set 31 March…

JWG has worked with FINOS Members to define 5 potential 2024 working group projects for a RegTech council and delivered 2 overview documents on 7 September 2023 for 5 projects including Post trade digital regulatory reporting and ESG schema for CSRD, SFDR. In November 23 JWG successfully delivered an ESG data industrialisation hackathon with 65…

The landscape of financial regulations is evolving rapidly, with new technologies paving the way for unprecedented opportunities. We invite you to join us on June 28th, 2024, at 13:00 GMT for a webinar titled, "How RegTech Helps FinTech Eat BankingTech." Watch here Webinar Highlights: Expert Insights: Hear from PJ Di Gammarino, a pioneering RegTech founder,…

With only 6 months left to deliver compliance with Europe’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), financial entities and their suppliers face a myriad of new ICT risk management, testing and reporting obligations. Governance, policies, incident logs and contracts need to be recalibrated to new standards which vary based on business models. 22,000 entities are getting…

JWG has worked with FINOS Members to define 5 potential 2024 working group projects for a RegTech council and delivered 2 overview documents on 7 September 2023 for 5 projects including Post trade digital regulatory reporting and ESG schema for CSRD, SFDR. In November 23 JWG successfully delivered an ESG data industrialisation hackathon with 65…

JWG has worked with FINOS Members to define 5 potential 2024 working group projects for a RegTech council and delivered 2 overview documents on 7 September 2023 for 5 projects including Post trade digital regulatory reporting and ESG schema for CSRD, SFDR. In November 23 JWG successfully delivered an ESG data industrialisation hackathon with 65…

JWG has worked with FINOS Members to define 5 potential 2024 working group projects for a RegTech council and delivered 2 overview documents on 7 September 2023 for 5 projects including Post trade digital regulatory reporting and ESG schema for CSRD, SFDR. In November 23 JWG successfully delivered an ESG data industrialisation hackathon with 65…

JWG’s Annual RegTech conference highlighted over 50 regulatory initiatives seeking to refine how firms collect and manage information. We concluded that firms have an opportunity to comply with these new rules in better, faster and cheaper ways. Cloud, data and AI technology are moving fast and offer opportunities for RegTech innovation. But how do senior…

At JWG's annual conference, panellists agreed that the financial services sector has an opportunity to leverage its newly deployed common domain model to scale trade surveillance controls, making the system safer, less noisy more efficient by billions of dollars across the markets. Research has shown that standardized business events and data dictionaries can streamline the process for spotting suspicious trading activity…

JWG’s eighth annual conference will be the premier, global event for setting the 2024 RegTech agenda. Register here Long recognised as the first, biggest and most professional public/private sector meeting place, JWG is continuing to focus on helping agencies, firms and those that serve them face fear, greed and safety in a digital age. The…

JWG’s Annual RegTech conference highlights over 50 regulatory initiatives seeking to refine how firms collect and manage information, the pressure is on to stay ahead of the game and keep up with a rapidly changing compliance landscape. RegTech-dependent obligations are being baked into policy which presents firms an opportunity to comply with these new rules…

The financial services sector has an opportunity to leverage its newly deployed common domain model to scale trade surveillance controls, making the system safer, less noisy more efficient by billions of dollars across the markets. Research has shown that standardized business events and data dictionaries can streamline the process for spotting suspicious trading activity across…

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will facilitate the RegTech Council’s ESG efforts to solve the use cases agreed for the 1 day hackathon.

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will facilitate the RegTech Council’s team and tooling approach for the 1 day hackathon on 8 November.

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will facilitate the RegTech Council’s creation of a use case(s) preparation pack for the 1 day hackathon on 8 November.

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will facilitate the RegTech Council’s agreement of  the use case(s) for the 1 day hackathon on 8 November.

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will lead a discussion to brief the industry on the RegTech Council’s ESG efforts and solicit input on the objectives for a 1 day hackathon on the 8th of November.

The financial services sector has an opportunity to leverage its newly deployed common domain model to scale trade surveillance controls, making the system safer, less noisy more efficient by billions of dollars across the markets. Research has shown that standardized business events and data dictionaries can streamline the process for spotting suspicious trading activity across…

The financial services sector has an opportunity to leverage its newly deployed common domain model to scale trade surveillance controls, making the system safer, less noisy more efficient by billions of dollars across the markets. Research has shown that standardized business events and data dictionaries can streamline the process for spotting suspicious trading activity across…

In this session PJ Di Giammarino will be joined by Matt Caine, Regional Sales Director at NICE, to discuss how in financial compliance, risks can lurk beneath the surface in millions of daily calls, emails, and instant messages, in new communication channels used for hybrid work, and in growing trade volumes. Finding risk in this…

In this session, PJ Di Giammarino will discuss what it takes to get open standards fit for regulatory purpose. He will cover lessons learnt from JWG’s highly successful Derivatives DRR working group, reveal what’s next on the radar, and what actions FINOS members can take now to make sure they don’t miss out on the…

After conducting over 50 interviews with firms, regulators and their suppliers, JWG has focused FINOS’ regulatory-driven open-source opportunities into 3 broad regulatory buckets: post trade regulatory and market transparency; digital assets compliance and ESG data validation. This JWG-facilitated 12-person physical roundtable will help define desired outcomes, business cases, priorities and pathways for successful execution of…

Context Are you a senior executive or compliance officer for a financial services firm? If so, then you know that the industry’s regulatory framework is changing fast. MiFID III, the Edinburgh plan and DFA II consultations were published in December 2022. It can be difficult to keep up with all the changes – but that’s…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 18 for firms to discuss the path forward with ISDA and establish next steps.

DRR Design Oversight Committee 14 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

We are proud to announce that our 7th JWG conference on will take place on 9th & 10th November 2022.  We are finalizing the agenda now so please let us know if you would like to participate by reply or contact Corrina.Stokes@jwg-it.eu.

An opportunity for senior IT, Risk and Compliance managers to confront new regulatory demands and discuss strategic board priorities and plans over dinner New regulation will fundamentally change the landscape for the biggest tech companies--particularly cloud providers--for the first time by demanding end-to-end controls. JWG's new research paper here has found that operational resilience (UKPS6/21,DORA),…

In our sixth Digital Reporting Taskforce meeting last week a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed: An IIF Digital Economic Cooperation framework Problem statements for Identification and standards Messaging needs for senior management. The minutes can be found along with the meeting materials here. The next meeting, DRTF7 in October we will focus…

The CEO’s reporting challenge is considerable.  Regulators are asking firms to raise the standard of regulatory returns to the same care and diligence given to financial reports and Basel IV is on its way for 2023. New approaches to interpreting reporting obligations and validating the calculations required with additional data sources can help. JWG, an…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 13to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 17 for firms to review results of 'house view' discussions on path forward and best practices as well as service model and next steps.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 16 for firms to review results of 'house view' discussions on path forward and best practices.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 15 for firms to review proposed solution architectures and resourcing options.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 14 for firms to review legal structure and roles and responsibilities.

DRR Design Oversight Committee 12 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 13 for firms to review detailed DRR operating model needs

REGISTER NOW Today’s economic crime. Pre-Covid, regulators found that despite a clear correlation between suspicious market behaviour and money laundering/ terrorist financing risk, firms had decoupled these risk functions. These issues remain today but have been made worse by the current political environment which demand wholesale rewriting of AML regimes while putting tough sanctions into…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 12 for firms to review target operating model strawman discussed in in DRR architecture WG meeting on 26 May 2022

In our fifth meeting, a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed two key regulatory reporting problem statements and identified options to solve them, the considerations, potential paths and barriers. The minutes can be found along with the meeting materials here. The next meeting, DRTF6 on 14 June will review additional problem statements. JWG…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 11 for firms to review target operating model options and key issues discussed in oversight committee 11 on 12 May 2022

DRR Design Oversight Committee 11 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 10 for firms to review target operating model options and key issues identified in WG9

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 9 for firms to review target operating model options and key issues identified in WG8

Objective: Develop and encourage interoperability by exploring RegTech themes which are common to Digital Assets, Crypto and Traditional Finance (TradFi) business models. Description: As Digital Assets move into the realm of TradFi, the interoperability of the markets depend on common safety standards and communication protocols within the FS infrastructure. In this seminar, leading De Fi,…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 10 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

In our fourth meeting, a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed two key regulatory reporting problem statements and identified options to solve them, the considerations, potential paths and barriers. The minutes can be found along with the meeting materials here. The next meeting, DRTF5 on 8 February will review additional problem statements. JWG…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 9 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

In our third meeting, a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed the new risk system design criteria and specifications, objectives, and migration paths. The minutes can be found along with the meeting materials here. The next meeting, DRTF4 on 14 December will review feedback received at DRTF3 and the JWG Annual Conference JWG…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 7 to review follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting8 (DOC8)

Digital Regulatory Reporting sprint follow-up meeting to review conclusions from 30 November Fx Sprint and agree next steps in advance of 15 December DOC9

Target outcome: to complete a targeted Fx scope of 15-20 fields by end January and set the stage for a repeatable approach in Q121 Please note: The sprint relies on a set of DRR training videos produced from a previous DRR course which are attached to this meeting notice (see 'supporting documents' below on the…

Why attend for Sponsors Why attend for Delegates   We are proud to announce that our 6th JWG conference on will take place on our expanded digital platform with tons of new ways to interact with the leaders and help shape the global debate. We are finalizing the agenda now so please let us know if you would like to…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 8 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

In our second meeting, a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed the changes in the regulatory building blocks required and quickly identified components which could be assembled to define a new paradigm for risk information collection. The next meeting will focus on a new paradigm for collecting risk information from a digital system…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 6 to review follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting7 (DOC7)

In our first meeting, a global group of regulators, firms and suppliers discussed the changes in the regulatory reporting story, the building blocks required, stakeholders to engage and the collaborative mode of working we would like to establish. At this next meeting we will start with 4  building blocks, identify targets and highlight gaps to…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 7 to discuss DRR programme status vs. plans and determine next steps.

Following a great discussion about the major surveillance AI control gaps highlighted by JWG’s July research  the FATF and BIS have both published complementary AI policy papers.   With penalties of up to 6% of annual revenue 500 working days away, we have decided to build RegTech AI surveillance use cases to: Tease out the…

Financial services are digitizing fast but there is much more public and private sectors can do to deliver reporting controls which fulfil supervisory mandates in a digital age. With support from top regulators, financial institutions, and vendors JWG is launching a task force to 1) define a future target operating model for the regulatory reporting…

DRR Design Oversight Committee 6 presentation attached and minutes forthcoming.

Following our discussion of several global accountability regimes and forthcoming culture audits we are turning our attention back to AI. This is a very noisy space with Germany, UK, Japan and the US all mandating new controls in advance of MiFID III update which could raise the algo trading bar even higher.   In this…

JWG’s 2021 regulatory reporting research programme has concluded that the industry needs to step back and agree the digital vision for regulatory reporting. So far this year we have had over 20 firms, 10 suppliers, 7 regulators, 5 trade bodies and 3 academic institutions help align ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ risk data collection challenges…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 5 to review progress vs. plans and follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting 5 (DOC5) and Programme Oversight Committee 2 (POC2) and POC3

DRR Digitizer WG Peer review meeting agenda: Collect individual model submissions. 3 days in advance of each meeting we will call for your contributions to be submitted (before the meeting) Peer reviews meetings. ISDA will nominate the running order of the review meetings (55 mins) Progress tracking. JWG will publish and maintain a tracker of…

  As will be noted in the forthcoming minutes of the second Global Derivatives DRR Programme oversight Committee (POC2) meeting, some members expressed their support for a US-focused project on CFTC implementation. We have agreed to work with US ISDA colleagues to convene a meeting to review potential CFTC project objectives, risks and targets with…

4 half day training sessions in the US ET am to orient Digital Regulatory Reporting Digitizers By the end of the course participants will be able to transpose regulatory text into a CDM functional expression in Rosetta for the purposes of generating regulatory reporting. The course relies on a set of DRR training videos produced…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 4 to review progress vs. semantic plans and follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting 5 (DOC5) and Programme Oversight Committee 2 (PoC2). DRR CDM semantic & disambiguation requirements review Semantic architecture options and resourcing Test data approach (AB/EH) Eligibility approach

The UK’s data transformation plans and Europe’s integrated reporting strategy are shaking RegTech and SupTech foundations and FS Supervisors need a new, bold and long-term approach to aligning data and technology strategies. As discussed in RRDS 26, the Global Derivatives DRR programme is enabling firms to meet CPMI/IOSCO deadlines in 2021 and offers an excellent…

Inputs: ─Firm expectations of key milestones and dependencies for EMIR Refit and CFTC ─Draft planning assumptions to be challenged in POC2 (see objectives below) ─1 representative per organisation DRR programme planning session objectives: ─Targets. Set DRR MVP for the year: deliverables by quarter by regulation ─Modelling rates. Review Digitizer progress to date ─Interdependencies. Key dependencies…

DRR Digitizer WG Peer review meeting agenda: Collect individual model submissions. 3 days in advance of each meeting we will call for your contributions to be submitted (before the meeting) Peer reviews meetings. ISDA will nominate the running order of the review meetings (55 mins) Progress tracking. JWG will publish and maintain a tracker of…

The UK has taken a leading role in pushing for senior management accountability with a focus on SM&CR, Conduct and Culture. EU (MIC, SEAR) and APAC regulators (BEAR/FAR, IAC) have followed suit to varying degrees. In an increasingly digital sector with divergent rule sets, the ability to manage the compliance deltas is fast becoming a…

We have a great collection of EU, UK, US and Asia Pacific regulators registered to join in our Chatham house rules discussion of integrated reporting with top firms and technology suppliers. Our research has identified a number of key challenges posed by 430C by the much bigger picture imposed upon us by continued technological developments.…

Following publication of draft Global Derivatives DRR Design Oversight Committee 4 minutes here. Presentation materials and minutes have been added as attachments to this meeting.  

The plan is to make as much progress as possible with individual modelling in advance of launching Cohort 2 in May.  To achieve this: Individual model submissions. 3 days in advance of each meeting we will call for your contributions to be submitted (e.g., first submissions are due COB on 8 April) Peer reviews meetings.…

4 half day training sessions in the US ET am to orient Digital Regulatory Reporting Digitizers By the end of the course participants will be able to take a regulatory text and transpose it into a CDM functional expression in Rosetta for the purposes of generating regulatory reporting. The course relies on a set of…

Following on from my note earlier today, please find attached a spreadsheet with your individual field assignments for the month of April. Each person has been assigned a number of fields by ISDA which has tried to group the fields in a logical order Not everyone has the same amount of fields in total, but…

Following publication of the Global Derivatives DRR Design Oversight Committee 4 minutes here.  This meeting is to discuss findings, review plans and establish targets for the DRR architecture.

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 3 to review progress on follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting 4 (DOC4) and next steps in advance of Digitizer Cohort 2 launch in May and oversight committee meeting 5 (DOC 5).

Following on from my note earlier today, please find attached a spreadsheet with your individual field assignments for the month of April. Each person has been assigned a number of fields by ISDA which has tried to group the fields in a logical order Not everyone has the same amount of fields in total, but…

Digital Regulatory Reporting Architecture Working Group meeting 8 to review follow-up actions from oversight committee meeting (DOC10)

Regulators have begun the process of operating on the data backbone which underpins effective financial sector supervision. According to recent BIS research 10 jurisdictions including APAC (APRA, BSP, MAS) and  Europe (EBA, ECB, Italy, UK, OeNB) have begun to overcome the obstacles which stand in the way of new tooling and more effective supervision. JWG,…

To consolidate and extend the model and the approach to CDE fields for EMIR Refit.

As we summarized in our latest Beacon, JWG’s surveillance community has covered quite a patchwork of regulatory obligations over the past 2. In all that time, nothing has pulled all into focus like GameStop. JWG has been digging beyond the broadsheet news to examine what roars from Reddit chat groups will mean to wholesale and…

  JWG Participation notes Session Title: Realising the Benefits of Digitalisation Format: Virtual panel Time: Wednesday 17th March, 15:30-16:15 (45 min) Through the development of the Common Domain Model in 2020, together with the more recent initiative to create a Legal Clause Library, ISLA is developing a series of digital building blocks that will drive…

Working group meeting to consolidate and extend the DRR modelling from sprint 1 DRR training session of 23-26 February

We look forward to kicking off the 5th year of JWG’s Regulatory Reporting and Reference Data SIG series with a Bank of England-led discussion of 2020 data collection transformation findings and plans under Chatham house rule. The meeting will cover the new BoE plan to transform data collection from the UK financial sector (23 Feb).…

The next Global Derivatives Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) oversight committee meeting where we will recap lessons learnt, discuss forward plans and agree next steps.

 

Unleash Your Data, the podcast that puts data at the heart of the conversation is back for Season 3. This season we’ve been speaking to leaders from the likes of EY, the DTCC and JWG, covering regulation, intelligent automation and the power of hindsight, as we remain in a global pandemic. We'll get their thoughts…

Thank you for all your efforts this year to get momentum on the Global Derivatives DRR programme. In light of our review of the EMIR Refit report, which came out after our meeting and the SRSR research we have conducted this week, I’ve been following up with meeting participants, ISO and the trade associations on…

A UK Government-led forum in its third year. A dynamic and engaging event bringing together the leading public and private sector actors from the UK, China and Southeast Asia to exchange knowledge and innovative practical techniques and solutions to tackle financial crime and related issues. A vibrant and vital interaction between policymakers, regulatory bodies, law…

Design oversight committee 2. JWG agreed to have 1:1 conversations with Members to gather feedback on the Pilot and preferences on forward plans in advance of a 17 December DoC2 to cover;

AWARDING THE MOST TALENTED COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE BANKING & FINTECH INDUSTRY Now in their 21st year, the Banking Technology Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide, and the people who make it happen. JWG has been involved with Banking Tech and the award for over a decade and helped to…

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Firm test data submission to ISDA. The group was reminded that sample transaction data would need to be sent to cdmdrr@isda.org o that a Test Pack can be generated. Sample trades in FpML format Product coverage per scope definition – FX Forward, NDF, Vanilla Options Event coverage per scope definition – New, Termination, Novation Other Products and Events…

Meeting objectives   To review FX Pilot field modelling issues raised to date, gather feedback on key fields and agree next steps.