Financial Institutions and Regulations Part 2: Getting Trust with Data Lineage.

There’s more to Data Governance than Regulatory Compliance

Financial organizations found that they needed data governance to acclimatize to increasing data demands. The once overwhelming volume of unusable data is managed with metadata into valid and trusted data, inventoried to be accessible by users. Sensitive data can be detected automatically and policy controls can be enacted to ensure compliance. 

For financial institutions, data governance was a solution to organize an enterprise’s data landscape and make sure they avoid fines. As the financial sector became elevated with metadata, the best companies asked the obvious question: ‘Why not use metadata to bolster workflows and get value too?’

Data Lineage is Data Trust

Trust is a key point in the best practices of financial institutions. With financial organizations’ data landscape now usable with metadata management tools, having data lineage takes the use of this data to the next level.

Data lineage tracks the entire lifecycle of data assets, revealing its transformations and relationships from its source to destination. It equips users with deeper knowledge and context about data assets. Having more information about data assets gives you two things: (1) more trust in the data, and (2) better use of the information it provides in your tasks.

For asset managers, it allows them to display how they use funds for auditors and investors. For lenders, it provides a means for them to validate information with their own eyes so they can better make decisions about loans. For insurers, they are provided with further context about scenarios and how that affects their customer’s circumstances. For data analysts, insights on a data asset’s history and interactions facilitates business strategy.

Data Trust is Customer Trust

Having more information about data assets gives you more trust in that data. With more trust in their data, financial institutions are able to use the information effectively, safe and in a more organized manner. With financial organizations using data better, they display how they function supported by the data and analytics better. In doing so, those with a keen eye such as shareholders, regulators, and customers are more informed and thus more trusting. 

Lack of trust led financial institutions to turn to metadata management. In turn metadata tools not only helped these organizations avoid devastating fines but also reclaimed trust back in the industry. This is a very simplistic run-down of how data governance builds trust for financial institutions. To delve deeper into how invaluable data lineage is in finance, or how it builds trust, please request a free personalized  demo below.

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