Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group may have faced a substantial fine this month from the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with regards to failures related to its anti-money laundering (AML) checking process (see coverage here), but a lot of work has been going on in the background at the firm in order to get its customer database into shape, according to its data management team. Mark Davies, head of reference data at RBS, explains to A-Team Insight that the project that has been taking up the most amount of time this year has been focused on decommissioning the legal entity database acquired during the ABN Amro buyout and moving this data onto its centralised RBS system.

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