Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum

Any nation level unilateral decision that limits the amount of investment data or the quality of data available to the market is likely to have significant impact on financial services firms in general.  Ultimately those who have the power to restrict such access to daily investment data and limiting this valuable information to a quarterly basis - eliminating real-time data, may be attempting to manage perceptions about investment trends by controlling the narrative however in the longer term that is not necessarily a strategy that instills market confidence.  For financial institutions this causes increased uncertainty, massive risk management challenges as well as compliance and regulatory challenges.  Regulators may demand greater oversight, stricter reporting and ultimately those may result in less investment and fewer transactions while incurring greater operational costs that ultimately lead to operational restructuring and risk appetite re-assessments in financial institutions.