Perspectives
2017 Center for Regulatory Strategy Outlooks
Navigating the year ahead
Explore the regulatory trends, challenges, and opportunities that will impact banking, energy, insurance, life sciences, investment management, securities, and health care in 2017.
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in banking
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report highlights 14 key trends in the Banking Industry for 2017:
- US elections and consequences for the regulatory landscape
- The new age of capital planning and stress testing
- New capital order
- Data quality, analytics, and reporting
- Fintech
- Cyber threats and cyber risk
- Resolution planning
- Consumer protection
- Liquidity
- Governance and risk management
- Regulatory outlook and enhanced prudential standards for foreign banking organizations
- Credit quality concerns
- Model risk management
- Financial crimes risk
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in life sciences
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report looks at 10 key trends in the life sciences industry for 2017:
- Pending changes to the EU regulatory requirements for medical devices
- Medical devices: FDA cybersecurity regulatory update
- Use of next-generation sequencing in-vitro diagnostics
- Quality metrics for pharmaceuticals
- Identification of medicinal products (DMP)
- Fair market value (FMV)
- 340B Drug Pricing Program pending regulatory changes
- FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) and off-label
- Pricing and market access: Patient assistance programs (PAP), copay, copay donation, and specialty drugs
- Simplify compliance, focusing on strategic risks
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in energy
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report highlights 11 trends in the energy industry for 2017:
- Regulatory developments for commodity derivatives
- Price reporting
- Expansion of market surveillance data collection
- Risk-based approaches for capital investments
- Pipeline integrity and safety
- Leadership in flux at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) trends
- Cybersecurity regulations
- Trade surveillance
- Convergence of risk and compliance
- Utility commodity hedging and risk management
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in securities
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report looks at 12 key trends in the securities industry for 2017:
- DOL fiduciary definition
- Shortened settlement cycle
- Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT)
- Operational integrity
- New York DFS cybersecurity rules
- Non-financial regulatory reporting
- Liquidity management
- SEC enforcement sweep over customer protection
- Registration of security-based swap dealers
- Data analytics and data quality
- US treasuries market
- Conduct risk management: Conduct, culture, and ethical behaviors
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in investment management
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report looks at six key trends in the investment management industry for 2017:
- Mutual fund reporting
- Department of Labor's (DOL) definition of fiduciary
- Data analytics
- Regulators’ focus on investment risk – liquidity risk management
- Adviser business continuity and transition plans
- Cyber
Top regulatory trends for 2017 in insurance
This publication is part of the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy Americas’ cross-industry series on the year’s top regulatory trends. This annual series provides a forward look at some of the regulatory issues we anticipate will have a significant impact on the market and our clients’ businesses in the year ahead.
This report looks at 13 key trends in the insurance industry for 2017:
- Multiple regulatory influences
- Own Risk Solvency Assessment (ORSA): The evolution
- Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary standards: Conflicts of interest in retirement accounts
- Cyber technology
- Acquisitions from abroad
- Corporate governance
- Principle-based reserving
- Regulatory response to digital technology
- Market conduct
- Longevity risk charge
- Long-term care
- Form F: Potential changes to enterprise risk reporting
- Group regulatory capital initiatives
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In today’s rapidly evolving marketplace environment, key business issues are converging with impacts felt across multiple industry sectors. What are the key trends, challenges, and opportunities that may affect your business and influence your strategy? Look for more perspectives and insights from some of Deloitte’s forward thinkers.
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Christopher J. Spoth
Executive Director, Center for Regulatory Strategy
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