Capco’s Data practice, in partnership with technology partner Marionete, hosted a breakfast session to explore how firms can navigate the challenges brought about by the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), while looking at ways in which companies can use the new regulation to their benefit.

The ever-changing landscape of regulatory compliance challenges financial institutions, globally. In an effort to enhance transparency in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, promote financial stability and support the detection and prevention of market abuse, the world’s financial regulators began to introduce an ongoing series of regulatory reforms, of which many require accurate and timely reporting of transactions in OTC markets.

SEC Rule 613, otherwise known as the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), announces a plan to establish a central data repository to house a complete record of all equities and options trades in the U.S. National securities exchanges, and self-regulatory organizations (SROs) will be required to submit trade information to the CAT to allow regulators to efficiently and accurately track all activity through the U.S. market in National Market System (NMS) securities.