European Investment Bank – Counterparty Data Management

Counterparty Data Management solution rewrite and data remediation.

Case Study: European Investment Bank – Counterparty Data Management

Context:

Banks must hold accurate details on their counterparties to ensure adequate risk management, regulatory compliance, financial crime prevention, and support day-to-day operations. This client had identified a number of weaknesses in the management of their CP data.

Client Challenges:

  • Data quality issues with existing counterparty database
  • Limited integration with required range of data sources
  • Risk reports impacted by data quality issues and misaligned with regulatory requirements
  • Reporting performed using complex legacy application (SAP Business Objects)

Solution:

  • Rules-based data cleansing activity defined and executed, identifying data gaps, out of date values and redundant data fields
  • Identification of new data sources and definition of required interfaces to support provision of counterparty updates on scheduled basis
  • Connection of new reporting application (Power BI) to counterparty DB
  • Design, build, test and deploy of new counterparty risk reports, including new data quality report with process for data remediation identified as part of revised operating model

Outcomes:

  • Remediated counterparty data, with ongoing monitoring and procedures implemented to ensure data quality standard remains high going forwards
  • Remediated reports returned business function to within compliance threshold as per policy
  • New technical capability introduced (Power BI) provided users with an improved “self-service” offering and provides easier maintenance options for future changes required