Data profiling
An assessment of duplicates, gaps and conflicting values in the systems that hold each data domain.
Industry context
MDM, PIM and data quality in financial services
We give each party, product, supplier or asset one trusted record, with matching rules and stewards agreed by the business.
Master data work is about matching rules, data ownership and stewardship rather than software alone. We profile your data, agree the rules with the business and set up the workflows people use to keep records correct.
Financial institutions work under close central bank supervision, with fraud exposure and customers who expect money to move instantly. Risk, compliance and operations teams need to see how each change affects controls before it goes live, so we involve them from design onwards. Arabic and English spellings of the same name, national ID and commercial registration numbers, and UAE and Saudi address formats each need their own matching rules.
After stabilisation we hand over to your teams or keep running the service with you.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
How the work is organised
From design to stable operation, with the evidence risk committees, internal audit and regulators ask for.
Matching and survivorship
Rules for matching records and choosing the trusted value, agreed with the data owners.
Stewardship workflows
Queues and approvals for data stewards, with quality measures reported to data owners.
Regulatory landscape
We map delivery evidence to the expectations of the regulator you answer to: the Central Bank of the UAE or, for capital market firms, the Securities and Commodities Authority; in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), including its Cyber Security Framework, or the Capital Market Authority.
Bilingual matching
Match rules that handle Arabic and English names, transliteration variants and local identifiers.
Distribution to consuming systems
Trusted records published to ERP, CRM and analytics through agreed interfaces.
Checks before you start
Master data work is ready to start when a business owner will decide the rules and the systems that hold each domain are known.
- The classification of customer and transaction data has been agreed.
- A business owner for each data domain in scope has agreed to decide matching and quality rules.
- The systems that create and change records in each domain have been listed.
Plan MDM, PIM and data quality in financial services
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.