Lightening the load

Regulatory reporting is an increasingly weighty issue, given the scale and complexity of rules for internationally active banks. What problems do institutions face in regulatory reporting and what software systems are available to ease the burden? Clive Davidson reports

Banks have long had to spend time wading through pages and pages of regulations, ensure they are compliant and report the relevant information to their supervisors. But that task has become a lot more demanding in recent years. The list of regulations affecting financial institutions has grown rapidly, while the complexity of reporting requirements has leapt - just think of Basel II and the information regulators require in order to validate internal ratings-based models.

Not surprisingly, many