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GRC Sphere for Capital Markets Compliance

Automate capital markets governance, risk, and compliance — MiFID II monitoring, Dodd-Frank & EMIR automation, trading risk quantification, and AI-powered regulatory reporting in one platform.

Compliance Challenges in Capital Markets

Capital markets firms face intense regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions — requiring automated, continuous compliance management.

Multi-Regulatory Complexity Across MiFID II, Dodd-Frank & EMIR

Capital markets firms operate under overlapping regulatory regimes — MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MAR, and Basel III/IV. Navigating these frameworks simultaneously without automated compliance mapping creates critical regulatory gaps and enforcement risk.

Risk Quantification for Trading Portfolios

Quantifying market, credit, and counterparty risks across complex trading portfolios — derivatives, fixed income, equities — requires real-time data aggregation, sophisticated modelling, and continuous stress testing capabilities.

Regulatory Reporting Burden for Investment Firms

Regulators demand frequent, granular reporting — transaction reporting under MiFID II, trade repository submissions under EMIR, and capital adequacy disclosures. Manual preparation is error-prone, time-consuming, and exposes firms to penalties.

Third-Party & Counterparty Risk

Capital markets firms depend on clearing houses, prime brokers, custodians, and technology vendors. Assessing and continuously monitoring counterparty exposures and vendor risk across the trading lifecycle is a growing regulatory imperative.

GRC Sphere Capital Markets Capabilities

Purpose-built governance, risk, and compliance automation for the capital markets industry.

Automated Regulatory Compliance for MiFID II & EMIR

Map MiFID II, EMIR, and Dodd-Frank requirements to internal controls automatically. GRC Sphere continuously monitors control effectiveness, identifies gaps, and generates remediation plans — keeping your firm audit-ready year-round.

Pre-built control libraries for MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank
Automated control testing and evidence collection
Real-time compliance gap identification
Regulatory change tracking and impact analysis

AI-Powered Trading Risk Quantification

Quantify market, credit, and operational risks across trading portfolios using AI-driven models. Aggregate risk data from front-to-back office systems to generate real-time risk heat maps and capital impact assessments.

Monte Carlo simulation for portfolio risk quantification
Real-time VaR and stress testing dashboards
Capital adequacy impact assessment
Scenario analysis across market conditions

Capital Adequacy & Stress Testing

Automate capital adequacy calculations, leverage ratio monitoring, and regulatory stress testing. Pre-built models for IFR/IFD capital requirements and Basel III/IV compliance for systemically important firms.

IFR/IFD capital requirement calculations
Automated leverage ratio and liquidity monitoring
Regulatory stress test scenario management
Capital buffer and threshold alerting

Counterparty Risk Assessment

Assess and continuously monitor counterparty exposures across clearing houses, prime brokers, and trading partners. Automated risk scoring, exposure aggregation, and margin call impact analysis for all counterparty relationships.

Automated counterparty risk scoring and tiering
Real-time exposure aggregation and monitoring
Margin call impact analysis and forecasting
Counterparty default scenario modelling

Regulatory Submission Automation

Generate regulatory submissions for supervisory authorities automatically. Pre-built templates for MiFID II transaction reporting, EMIR trade repository submissions, and capital adequacy disclosures.

MiFID II transaction reporting automation
EMIR trade repository submission workflows
Capital adequacy and large exposure reports
Audit trail and version control for submissions

Board-Level Risk Dashboards

Real-time governance, risk, and compliance dashboards for firm leadership. Board-ready reports with risk trends, compliance status, trading risk exposure, and regulatory examination readiness.

Board-ready risk and compliance reports
Regulatory examination readiness scoring
Trading risk exposure trending and analysis
KRI threshold alerting and escalation workflows

Regulatory Frameworks We Automate

MiFID II

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive — investor protection, transaction reporting, and trading venue compliance automation.

Dodd-Frank

Derivatives regulation, swap reporting, Volcker Rule compliance, and systemic risk monitoring for US-regulated firms.

EMIR

European Market Infrastructure Regulation — trade repository reporting, clearing obligations, and risk mitigation for OTC derivatives.

Basel III / IV

Capital adequacy, liquidity requirements, and leverage ratio compliance with automated monitoring for systemically important firms.

MAR

Market Abuse Regulation — insider dealing prevention, market manipulation surveillance, and suspicious transaction and order reporting (STOR).

SFDR

Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation — ESG risk disclosure, sustainability reporting, and green taxonomy compliance for investment firms.

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Automate Your Capital Markets Compliance

See how GRC Sphere can streamline MiFID II, EMIR, and Dodd-Frank compliance for your investment firm.