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…

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

  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…

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;

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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.

Advocacy group. The group discussed creating a DRR advocacy group that is tasked with getting a list of potential stakeholders and a plan together for engaging with policy, innovation, standards and other stakeholders. The group will help shape the long term and immediate objectives, key messages and what input is required from the private sector. Members…

Transaction homework + Projection review

JWG’s review of the 276 page MAR review report raised a number of key issues for surveillance professionals which further the need for SM&CR guidance. Come join your colleagues in a short discussion of the objectives, approach and focus of for SM&CR surveillance guidance to help.

   Assessing 10 Opportunities in the RegTech, FinTech and the Digital Landscape Donna Bales, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of the Canadian RegTech Association and PJ Di Giammarino, Founder and CEO of JWG Group were honoured to participate in the Canadian Institute’s 26th Annual Flagship Conference on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions. The trans…

Global Derivatives Digital Regulatory Reporting Working Group Meeting 2 See the attached materials.

   Watch the SupTech Roundtable Q&A   A decade on from the financial crisis, the European Commission fitness check found different data modelling standards and reporting formats in place for transaction reporting and risk regimes. Efforts are underway to prove digital regulatory reporting can link reporting requirements to a business lifecycle to facilitate machine readability. This summer, the Bank…

 This is a recording of the DRR training delivered to members on 11 November. The recording is for educational purposes and is to be used to foster educational discussions on the Common Domain Model (CDMTM) as part of the Global Derivative DRR Project. Reviewers of this material agree to adhere to the spirit of…

   Donna Bales, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of the Canadian RegTech Association and PJ Di Giammarino, Founder and CEO of JWG Group were honoured to participate in the Canadian Institute’s 26th Annual Flagship Conference on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions. The trans-Atlantic debate, 'Assessing 10 Opportunities in the RegTech, FinTech and the…

To discuss expectations for the DRR pilot and agree a plan.

Hong Kong is a global financial powerhouse, being the regional hub to most of the world’s major international and regional banks, securities firms, insurers and asset managers; the Greater Bay Area’s financial gateway; the first home of many leading Chinese financial institutions and fintechs when they first expand outside the Mainland; and the progressive birthplace…

New consultations were released last week which could have a major impact on communications surveillance. Time to book your seat at the next Chatham house rule JWG RegTech Trade Surveillance Special Interest Group (TSS). The 276 page MAR review report revisits key issues for surveillance professionals including: the definition of inside information, insider dealing controls/ disclosure, market soundings, insider lists and the establishment of an…

The group discussed regulatory engagement, communications, a pilot approach and received 2 presentations from consultancies with a view to defining regulatory launching the first pilot.

With the ever-changing financial services market becoming more tech-enabled, the regulatory landscape is becoming increasingly more complex. Therefore, it’s no surprise that technology adoption is on the rise. The Regulatory Change & Reporting Forum is a unique virtual platform for the global ecosystem of senior banking representatives to connect, debate and share experiences in a…

Interactions Live 2020, our first ever virtual event, made history and shattered records, with over 20,000 registered attendees, making it the industry’s largest and most successful conference of the year, with customers and prospects still buzzing about their Interactions Live experience. However, unlike a physical event, the virtual event lives on. That’s right, we are…

The aim of this conference is to bring together European academics, young researchers, students and industrial practitioners to discuss the application of Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Finance. The 1st COST Conference was held on September 15, 2016, the 2nd COST Conference was held on September 7, 2017, the 3rd COST Conference was held on September 6, 2018, and the 4th AI Conference was held…

We are making good progress in our 1:1 discussion of policies, controls and the availability of resources and look forward to presenting the conclusions in the context of MAR II / MiFID III. The group met to discuss current regulatory demands on global surveillance functions. It reviewed new BCBS Operational Risk principles and EBA/ESMA suitability…

How a firm manages data is now intrinsic to its value, yet the FS risk management framework provides no way to account for IT obsolescence, cloud concentration and data risks on the balance sheet. New operational resilience obligations, 3rd party risk management guidelines and cloud registries are due soon. ESG could provide a path forwards,…

  The group agreed the next agenda would focus on refining the scope and understanding of the effort required from the participants.   RRDS 24: UK EMIR Article 9 DRR project launch

Round the table: ​ Firms: BMO, BNY Mellon, Citi, Credit Suisse, DB, GAM, Goldman Sachs, Invesco, LBG, Morgan Stanley, Pictet, PIMCO, Santander, SEI, TD, UBS​ Infrastructure: Accenture, Business Semantics, Capco, DTCC, EY, Fujitsu, LRH, LSEG, Quorsus, SETL, SWIFT​ Trade Associations: AFME, ICMA, ISDA, EVIA, FIA, FTC​ Regulators: BoE, ECB, FCA