IT Evolves to Support European Regulatory Reporting

Celent finds that regulatory pressures and advances in risk and financial management are encouraging banks to leverage a common data-centric architecture.

Financial institutions are dealing with an almost overwhelming number of new regulations and supervisory guidelines, notably Basel II and CAD3. The disciplines of risk and financial performance management are converging in order to help banks to make better business decisions, and increase the transparency of risk and financial profiles to regulators and the marketplace.

In a new report, " : IT Evolves to Support European Regulatory Reporting," Celent examines the history of regulatory changes in Europe and beyond, and how the latest batch of changes are affecting existing technology architectures and strategies at the world's financial institutions.

Celent demonstrates that financial institutions need to accept that supervisory rules will remain in a state of continuous flux as new financial and risk management best practices are adopted and disseminated globally. Banks therefore need to keep their audit and compliance processes and related systems flexible to meet the growing demand for information. The growing number of technology solutions will require banks to find a vendor that can truly act as a partner.

"Solution providers are rapidly adding on functionality or partnering with other vendors and system integrators in order to meet the ever-growing requirements of the financial institution," says Michael Haney, a senior analyst at Celent and author of the report. "Firms are looking to leverage a common platform for risk management, performance measurement, customer analytics, and regulatory reporting," continues Haney. Celent sees spending for such solutions continuing to grow and reach almost US$2 billion globally.

The report concludes with a case study of FRS Financial Analytics, which is being used to help a top European universal bank meet its analytics and reporting requirements. The 38-page report includes 6 tables and 14 figures.

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