Their business may be finance, but these days banks don’t earn—or keep—customers by providing better returns or interest rates. Instead, banks increasingly compete by giving customers modern conveniences while making sure they stay in compliance amidst regulatory complexity. Those two issues—customer experience and regulatory compliance—are at the heart of the banking business in 2017. And... more
Moving from digital transformation blabla, to actionable steps, this is one of the key objectives for Informatica’s MDM 360 Summit EMEA on June 7 and 8, in Amsterdam Arena. Where do you stand in the in digital? World Cup, Champions League, first league, second league, amateur? How do you rank compared to competition? Do you... more
*The blog post is from Jason Edge, Vice President Global Advisory, Entity Group. Jason specialises in Data Governance and Management and is skilled at working with executive stakeholders across an organisation to shape strategies and achieve their vision. Recently at Entity Group we have been giving a lot of thought to how an initiative to... more
The Data 3.0 era is upon us, so this blog has a little look at how data powers the world of Financial Services. What’s going on in Financial Services? If I look at what seems to sit behind many conversations I have with customers, there seem to be a number of common factors. These common... more
What the Heck’s in That (Open) Dataset? Here’s a No-Brainer Way to Find Out! Open data is just plain…awesome! If you need some inspiration or ideas for external data sources to analyze, you can start exploring open datasets for statistics about various topics ranging from agriculture to business, public safety, education, consumers, government, energy, finance,... more
Transamerica Presents at Informatica World 2016. Informatica World 2016 was in San Francisco this year, and the company whose iconic pyramid marks the skyline led this key session describing the strategy and hard work behind their successful EMAP (Enterprise Marketing and Analytics Program) customer relationship platform. Vishal Bamba, VP Innovation & Architecture and Rocky Tiwari,... more
Despite significant investments in Data Governance programs, Chief Data Officers, and Tools, financial services companies (buy side, sell side, insurance, banking, etc.) of all sizes continue to struggle with the quality of data in their enterprise as evidenced by a recent survey and white paper completed by WBR and Informatica “Modernizing Data Quality & Governance:... more
Like most industries, the financial services industry is all about those zeros and ones. Every credit card transaction, mobile payment, brokerage order, mortgage approval, and interaction between client and advisor generates a tremendous amount of data. Data that has to be trusted, secure, timely, and share across the enterprise whenever and wherever the business needs it... more
Financial Services institutions are assessing where to start on the road to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. Here are some thoughts about the starting point. In a recent blog article, I set out my view on the journey to addressing GDPR compliance in Financial Services. In this blog, I’m going to examine my view... more
The recent release of information around the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has highlighted a number of areas of the new privacy regulation that will prove challenging for many Financial Services institutions. In broad terms, the aim of the regulation is to enable citizens to take back control of their own data and... more