Finnovation With Suptech

Imagine a financial world where compliance with complex regulations is streamlined, efficient and automated. Where financial institutions effectively manage risks, detect and prevent financial crimes and report accurate data to regulatory authorities, all while reducing costs and increasing operational effectiveness. This is the reality of Regtech and Suptech, the cutting-edge technologies transforming the compliance landscape for Regulators.

As financial regulations become increasingly stringent and constantly evolving, Regtech and Suptech are emerging as game-changers in the financial industry

What is Suptech

SupTech, short for supervisory technology, is the application of emerging technology to improve how supervisory agencies conduct supervision. In other words, it’s the technologies for the regulators themselves. Suptech refers to the use of innovative technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) by supervisory agencies to support supervision.

• It involves using technology by regulatory authorities to monitor, supervise and enforce compliance with financial regulations.
• It enable regulators to collect, analyse and interpret large volumes of data from financial institutions, identify risks and detect potential violations.
• It allows regulators to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency in ensuring compliance.
• It improves efficiency through the use of automation, streamlining administrative and operational procedures, and digitalizing data and working tools.
• It reduces the burden on firms and allow for more proactive monitoring, better reporting, oversight and overall compliance on the regulator’s side.

For example, suptech applications using ML can spot quality issues such as data gaps, inconsistencies, and errors, and automate data cleaning, consolidation, validation and quality assurance. In data analytics, suptech solutions can reduce the burden of data crunching through automation, and enable newer, richer and more complex analyses.

The Dream of SupTech,

SupTech benefits from a serendipitous coincidence. Both the work of supervisory agencies and the technologies that are fueling our current technological revolution are underpinned by the same thing: data.

Data — and specifically the ability to aggregate and analyze large sets of it — is what has fueled the deep learning revolution of the last decade.

Neural networks can crunch the large data sets of online images to create image recognition software.

Machine learning algorithms ingest massive troves of regulatory documents to create knowledge automation solutions. For industries built around big data, technology now offers a plethora of ways to reduce errors and improve efficiencies.

This perfectly coincides with the modern approach to financial regulation, which is built around big data. But today’s approach also manages data in a manual, time-intensive, and usually backward-looking manner. Consider, for example, the lengthy onsite inspections regulators regularly conduct as a means of collecting data, and the cumbersome analysis process which, when it results in supervisory action, is often focused on incidents that happened months or even years ago.

Imagine a scenario where regulators receive data feeds directly from the firms they are regulating. Rather than having to go out and collect the data, the data is funneled into their systems — and is then analyzed by machine learning and natural language processing technologies in order to flag suspicious transactions or behaviors.

This is the dream of SupTech, which is quickly becoming a reality. It is built around two aspects of financial supervision: data collection and data analytics.

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) View

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) V identities two main areas of focus for suptech applications: data collection, and data analytics. Within data collection, suptech applications can be found in reporting, data management and virtual assistance. Within data analytics, four key areas stand out: market surveillance, misconduct analysis, microprudential supervision and macroprudential supervision.

Why Suptech Now ?

Over the last decade, digital financial services and fintech have driven major benefits for financial consumers. However, they also present market conduct supervisors with new challenges

• Protecting millions of new users
• Oversight of new financial actors
• New types of risks to consumers
• And, of course, capacity constraints faced by supervisors

When to Use Suptech ?

• To monitor, analyse and supervise financial institutions’ compliance with regulations
• To collect and analyse data from financial institutions and identify potential risks
• To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and conduct risk assessments
• To detect and mitigate potential risks and ensure stability and integrity in the financial system
• As a tool for regulatory authorities to enhance their supervisory capabilities and monitor financial institutions’ compliance

SupTech Solutions

Supervisors can use machine learning tools to create a “risk score” for supervised entities.

• FINTRAC, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, has created one such score, evaluating the risk factors related to an institution’s profile, compliance history, reporting behavior, and more.

Supervisors can also use network analysis to assess an entity’s exposure to money laundering risk.

• DNB (De Nederlandsche Bank), for example, analyzes transactional data in order to detect whether related entities are sending funds to the same party through different financial institutions.

Leveraging natural language processing technologies to audit the promotional materials, prospectuses, and financial advice documents that are produced by financial institutions.

• A number of regulators, including ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission), the Bank of Mexico, and the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority), are using it

Suptech solutions are essential in ensuring compliance and risk management in the financial industry. Regtech helps financial institutions streamline their compliance processes, while Suptech enables regulatory authorities to monitor and supervise financial institutions’ compliance with regulations effectively.

Way Forward

SupTech is undeniably still in its early days. In recent research conducted by the Bank of International Settlements, only half of the participating regulators surveyed had or were developing SupTech strategies. And, of those strategies, less than a third were operational, with most still being in the experimental or developmental stages. As SupTech advances, it will undoubtedly find new ways to make the work of regulators more accurate and efficient, but it will have serious questions to consider as well. For example, by interconnecting regulators and supervised entities, will SupTech create new avenues for cyberattacks? And if supervisory technologies make a mistake, what will the cascading effect of this be?

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