Identify, control and audit the flow of customer or portfolio data to ensure confidentiality, and demonstrate BASEL II compliance

The Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, creates international standards that banking regulators can use when specifying how much capital a financial institution needs to maintain in cash reserves to cover the amount of risks that the firm incurs. The amount of required reserves impacts the flexibility and profitability of each bank.

In Basel II, risks are classified as credit, market and operational risks. In particular, operational risks are "the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems, or from external events." While a bank's financial organization manages credit and market risks, its individual operating units manage operational risks. 

One operational risk is information risk, which is generally handled by the bank's IT or the Compliance functions. Information risk is a critical factor affecting a bank's operational risks, which in turn influences its capital requirements and, consequently, its profitability. Without robust data protection, banks risk costly information loss, leading to higher operational risk and lower profits. 

Basel II Compliance Industry Applications

NextLabs' solution is a set of applications which include a comprehensive set of pre-built policy libraries and pre-built reports to help banks control risks to critical information, from personal client data to the sensitive portfolio information of the banks. Policy sets can be easily customized to the environment or used as templates to create new policies. The Solution can help prevent:

• Internal Fraud - Assures integrity of information and data by preventing access by unauthorized persons. Provides document histories detailing access and usage of critical information.
• External Fraud - Mitigates insider risks, including information theft, and prevents data leakage.
• Clients, Products, & Business Practice - Prevents fiduciary breaches like conflicts of interest, via information barriers that reduce opportunities to leverage material non-public information.
• Business Disruption & Systems Failures - Automatically archives and controls the flow of information to guard against environmental disruptions, software or hardware failures
• Execution, Delivery & Process Management - Automates many information-handling procedures to prevent mistakes and mishandling of critical information. Provides timely generation of reports to meet any mandatory reporting requirements. Enforces use of secure communications channels to prevent negligent loss of client information or assets.

The NextLabs Basel II Compliance Solution secures confidential and non-public client and corporate information to comply with Basel II requirements, and reduces banks' operational risk estimates, thereby lowering reserve requirements and leading to greater profitability.