Offering clients deep capabilities in compliance strategy, modelling, coding and testing to support successful platform transformations.
Strata and BlueHill Compliance have formed a strategic partnership to offer clients transformational end to end OMS implementation services with compliance as a core offering.
Our practitioners are experienced in all OMS platforms and industry leaders in BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, bringing key capabilities in:
- Compliance Strategy
- Data Modelling and Macros
- Rule Extraction Support
- Rule Coding
- Rule Testing
- Ongoing Audit
Mikko Ala-Illomaki | Head of Compliance Practice
Systems implementation
– Project Methodology and planning
– Provision of Rule Coding and Testing resources
– Compliance Asset – Hierarchy design and set-up based on source data
– Rule coding and formulation of Rule – Coding Standards
– Rule Testing and Quality Assurance
Systems and quality audits
– Conducting audits of compliance system rules against legal documentation
– Auditing regulatory rule coding functionality against the source Law
– Auditing pre and post-trade compliance violation management process, compliance violation history, operating model design and compliance breach resolution process
Business as usual / managed service
– Provision of coding and monitoring resource to support business-as-usual
investment compliance functions (including Rule Coding, Rule Testing, Pre-trade violation investigations and overnight violation investigations)
Operating model and process design
– Providing assistance to investment compliance operating model design
– Helping to define the roles and responsibilities of different departments in the investment compliance process
– Documenting Operating Model Design and Process maps
Compliance
Our unique approach to compliance brings you the following benefits
- Provides complete transparency and understanding of the OMS Compliance Data Model
- Avoids long winded question loops between OMS provider and the client, simplifying the code creation
- Allows clients to go-live with a clean set of accurately functioning rules, cutting out unnecessary noise caused by bad coding
Data Model Build/Macros
- Bottom up build of the Aladdin Compliance Data Model and macros, resulting in an accurate, structured compliance data model for the client.
Rule Coding
- Coding rules based on the agreed client data model and macros to increase the quality and accuracy of rule coding
- Coding rules based on similarity categorisation and agreed rule coding standards to achieve standardisation
Rule Testing
- Pre-agreed rule test scenarios and thorough documentation of rule test scenarios.
Data Model Built/Macros
- Pre agreed data model and macros resulting in a reduction of rule change requirements later on in the process
Rule Coding
- Standardisation of rule coding through agreed data model resulting in higher similarity between rules increasing coding speed
- Following agreed rule categories meaning that the same or similar rules are coded simultaneously to increase coding speed and efficiency
Rule Testing
- Data model/macro built and rule coding standards result in high degree of rule similarity, which consequently means large numbers of rules can be tested at once with limited numbers of test scenarios.
Solutions to enable your business
Aladdin
Practice
- Enterprise / Risk Implementations
- M&A integration
- Accounting & Performance
- Op Model design + Optimisation
- Risk, Data & Interfaces
- Aladdin Data Cloud
- Aladdin Climate
- Aladdin Wealth
- Health Check
Business
intelligence
Driving actionable insights for your business and your clients. Generating competitive advantage through our expertise in Data, Technology and Finance.
- Data & Investment Analytics
- ESG
- Client Reporting
- Regulatoary Reporting
- Compliance
- Performance
Business
innovation
Bringing to market innovative, value add products and services.
Custom Insight Generation
Data integration, Modelling & Accelerators
POC and prototyping
- Bespoke tooling
Delivering firsts
“Strata have integrated seamlessly into many areas of Newton’s Aladdin implementation project, providing deep subject matter expertise on the system and valuable experience of the challenges and pitfalls learned through their prior implementations.”
“The Strata team are game changers when it comes to data and analytics and have consistently delivered complex and ground-breaking solutions for M&G in true partnership style. From data modelling through to data surfacing and visualisation, they have collaborated and added real value to our front office stakeholders, in turn moving the dial on how we model and report on ESG. Strata's formula of combining deep investments knowledge, internal and vendor data expertise and technical capabilities delivers high impact results, and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their use of data to the next level.”
"Strata have extensive knowledge and expertise on both complex OTC products and the Aladdin system, which they have utilised to great effect. The impact of their strategic approach and dynamic team on the Swiss Re business means we are already seeing a significant return on investment.”
