Coffee & Regs

In this special Brexit episode, CSS’s Chief Product Officer Ronan Brennan sits down with the authority on global financial services legislation and Vice Chair of Financial Services at KPMG UK, Dr. Kay Swinburne. With the UK and EU not reaching a trade agreement on October 15, the EU summit is expected to push for negotiations to continue in the coming weeks. Kay speaks about what’s next for Brexit, and what regulatory divergence could look like.

In this episode, CSS’s Director of Cyber IT Services E.J Yerzak speaks with Chair of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice at Mintz, Cynthia Larose to continue Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is the first law in the US to set up a comprehensive set of rules around consumer data, akin to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Since going into effect, industry and privacy advocates have been battling over the fine print. Is it just another compliance requirement or is it going to drive real change towards greater protection of consumer’s privacy and data?

In this episode, CSS’s Chief Product Officer Ronan Brennan sits down with Product Manager Brian DeDonato to talk about the complexities of position limit monitoring. The position limits duo provide a detailed overview of who sets position limits globally before delving deeper into the various limit types, data requirements for position aggregation and adjustments, and how best to track spot effective periods and step down limits. 

In this episode, CSS’s Director of Cyber IT Services E.J Yerzak speaks with Detected CEO Liam Chennells to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Taking cues from the world of RegTech, B2B marketplaces, supply chain and logistics sectors have uncovered why due diligence processes, business verification and data governance are critical to ensuring the entities you’re doing business with pose no threats to your organization, brand reputation or to your clients.

In this episode, Chief Client Officer at CSS, Jac Dunne joins Natalie Silverman to discuss why more investment management firms are looking to managed services to do more with less and conserve strategic resources. Keeping up with the pace of regulatory change has also pushed compliance teams to consider whether it is more efficient to buy vs. build.

In this episode, Managing Director in Accenture’s Risk Practice, Dr. Rafael Gomes joins Natalie Silverman to discuss Compliance-as-a-Service – an innovative and proactive framework that enables compliance teams to move from a tactical to strategic approach to regulatory compliance via technology, centralized data, managed services and access to regulatory expertise. 

In this episode, Chief Product Officer of CSS, Ronan Brennan joins Natalie Silverman to discuss cross-border complexities from the transition many investment managers are preparing to make in the coming year from the UCITS KIID to PRIIPs KID regime.

In this episode, CSS’s Co-Executive Directors of Compliance Services, Keith Marks and Jackie Hallihan walk through a retrospective of Form CRS and Reg BI now that the June deadline has passed. They also discuss compliance best practices that are emerging in this COVID environment from changes in training, process and operations, to working with regulators and how firms have fared with regulatory examinations.

In this episode, CSS’s Executive Advisor on Global Transaction Reporting Mikkel Mördrup and regulatory expert and Founder of Laurellis Associates, Nik Volpe take a trip down memory lane to discuss knowing what we understand about transaction reporting today, what would buy- and sell-side firms have done differently to implement EMIR, MIFIR and SFTR.

In this episode, CSS’s SVP of Business Development Ashley Smith sits down with Chief Product Officer Ronan Brennan to talk about fragmented data sourcing, processes and technologies and how firms can manage data more strategically through a regulatory book of record (RBOR). The discussion also turns to how data management plays a role in simplifying the production of both UCITS KIID and PRIIPs KID.