Data quality, governance, and lifecycle management are the potential "soft underbelly" for heightened risk and compliance standards
Regulators are continuing to look broadly at the strength of firms鈥� data risk management and聽 governance, including policies, procedures, and accountability, data outputs (e.g., reporting, models,聽 metrics), and third-party risks. Scrutiny will focus on firms鈥� understanding and identification of risks聽 around the ways data is collected, used, shared, and/or monetized, as well as how it is protected from聽 misuse. Anticipate data governance supervisory themes to include:
Regulators will assess firms鈥� processes to define, identify, measure, monitor, manage and聽 report on data risks, including those posed by third parties, at all levels of the enterprise.
In 2024 firms should look for continuing regulatory focus on the following capabilities:
Through guidance, policy statements, supervision, and enforcement actions, regulators have聽 expressed expectations for firms to demonstrate cohesive and comprehensive strategies for聽 managing and overseeing systems, data, and controls throughout the data lifecycle, including聽 procedures for every step of the data lifecycle鈥攆rom collection or acquisition, processing, and聽 safeguarding to retention, possible migration, and end-of-life processes or disposal.
Expect regulatory examinations to consider:
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