Financial Regulation Program and the Framework of the EU Banking Union

The road to the EU bank union and the corresponding Financial Regulation Programme is further paved with a long list of implementation of systems, processes, controls, change management procedures and IT tools for almost each and every financial institution in Europe.

Economic and Monetary Union
The EU Council wants to move towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union. The first step is to create a Bank Union with a regulations framework so that the sum of the financial regulation components together will form the basis for monitoring the European Banking and Financial Union.

However with the proposed/adopted reforms by the EU Commission provides a fairly straightforward answer on how we must maintain the Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and IT security processes and controls so that we can place the financial and regulatory systems back on track

Therefore, all of the stakeholders in the financial services industry should identify and accurately assess the consequences of the EU reforms. The deadlines are tough , and the complexities need undivided attention on how the key players will implement the new reforms and regulations without damaging the operations.

Additional oversight, compliance and controls
Financial Institutions continue to be at the center of the financial crisis, various other government institutions have bailed out failing banks and oversight authorities are pressing for additional controls, governance risk management and compliance.

All financial institutions in the EU need to prepare a gap analysis to find out the consequences of the reforms proposed by the EU Commission for the Financial Markets.

A good start could be to conduct a workshop and get the practical input from the internal stakeholders in relation to description/overview of framework, how to exercise the additional oversight and controls, reporting and disclosures and developing an IT Platform for reporting and follow-up.

Transparency and accountability issues
Then there are complex data protection and privacy issues of the new directives, their consequences in practice, in addition the financial institutions have to develop integrated and across the organization. The IT tool for legal and compliance and risk management so that transparency and accountability issues that are at the core of the reforms are in order.

Until implementation in march 2014, the financial sector will be extremely busy figuring out the consequences, updates, experience & reflections that need to be accommodated so that the centralised and decentralized functions, figure out the optimal scope of The EU Bank Union for the organisation – The what and the why.