The role of Investment Management Systems in regulatory compliance: a Post-Financial Crisis study of displacement mechanisms

Daniel Gozman and Wendy Currie ()
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Daniel Gozman: LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science
Wendy Currie: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School

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Abstract: The financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the resultant pressures exerted on policymakers to prevent future crises have precipitated coordinated regulatory responses globally. A key focus of the new wave of regulation is to ensure the removal of practices now deemed problematic with new controls for conducting transactions and maintaining holdings. There is increasing pressure on organizations to retire manual processes and adopt core systems, such as Investment Management Systems (IMS). These systems facilitate trading and ensure transactions are compliant by transcribing regulatory requirements into automated rules and applying them to trades. The motivation of this study is to explore the extent to which such systems may enable the alteration of previously embedded practices. We researched implementations of an IMS at eight global financial organizations and found that overall the IMS encourages responsible trading through surveillance, monitoring and the automation of regulatory rules and that such systems are likely to become further embedded within financial organizations. We found evidence that some older practices persisted. Our study suggests that the institutionalization of technology-induced compliant behaviour is still uncertain.

Keywords: financial crisis; institutional change; regulatory change; governance risk and compliance; finance industry; Investment Management Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Journal of Information Technology, 2014, 29 (1), pp.44-58. ⟨10.1057/jit.2013.16⟩

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DOI: 10.1057/jit.2013.16

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