Financial market institutions are gearing up to meet the MiFID II deadline of January 2018. It is much larger in scope compared to the preceding regulation and requires a different approach towards leveraging Big Data in operational and transactional transparency to ensure investor protection and a fair and uniform functioning of the European financial marketplace.
MiFID II is not only another reporting requirement. This regulation involves technical, political and economic requirements being put in place – requirements that run literally thousands of pages. The long-term consequences are not entirely knowable at this time – but it is clear that non-EU firms will be impacted as well when doing business with EU entities.
The comprehensive regulations (with all their vagueries) and the threat of massive fines for non-compliance are creating fault lines among executives, bank risk officers and the developers tasked with complying. Some of the headaches executives have are:
All of these challenges will impact every aspect of the bank: operations, trading and technology. The conventional wisdom will be to think “data warehouse,” “reporting solutions” and “ETL,” but this won’t address the underlying challenge that few trust the quality of the data, that ETL and traditional technology won’t scale to the needs of an organization in time for May 2018.
Organizations that view MiFID II as merely a compliance exercise will cement its failure. It requires several new new ways of thinking – from being reactive to proactive, and being transaction-centric to customer centric. The first shift requires an understanding that the health of the organization itself is dependent on the behaviors of each individual. The second shift requires a mindset that the loyalty and health of investors – are tantamount to organizational success.
Bottom line is MiFID II requires new organizational processes and thinking, research and development in how to support it, and a departure from rigid technologies that make adaption costly and likely, not even feasible.
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