Navigating regulatory shifts with better data

In the first half of 2018, two major data-related EU regulations—the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which went into effect in January, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be implemented on May 25th—are changing how financial services firms manage data. Although legislated in the EU, these two regulations apply to organizations that conduct business in Europe, requiring global firms to come up to speed on compliance.

Meanwhile, other countries face their own regulatory changes and proposals, such as:

Compliance and regulatory disruption

Compliance and regulatory disruption: The interplay of regulatory trends and strategic priorities was written by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by OpenText. The research is based on a survey of 307 business executives from enterprises across industries located in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia and Japan. All survey respondents are familiar with compliance and regulatory requirements as they relate to information governance and security in their respective industry. 

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