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Why UK Financial Services Data Platforms Must Preserve Temporal Truth for Regulatory Compliance

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A Regulatory Perspective (2025–2026). UK Financial Services regulation in 2025–2026 increasingly requires firms to demonstrate not just what is true today, but what was known at the time decisions were made. Across Consumer Duty, s166 reviews, AML/KYC, model risk, and operational resilience, regulators expect deterministic reconstruction of historical belief, supported by traceable evidence. This article explains where that requirement comes from, why traditional current-state platforms fail under scrutiny, and why preserving temporal truth inevitably drives architectures that capture change over time as a foundational control, not a technical preference.

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Probabilistic & Graph-Based Identity in Regulated Financial Services

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This article argues that probabilistic and graph-based identity techniques are unavoidable in regulated Financial Services, but only defensible when tightly governed. Deterministic entity resolution remains the foundation, providing anchors, constraints, and auditability. Probabilistic scores and identity graphs introduce likelihood and network reasoning, not truth, and must be time-bound, versioned, and replayable. When anchored to immutable history, SCD2 discipline, and clear guardrails, these techniques enhance fraud and AML insight; without discipline, they create significant regulatory risk.

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Migrating Legacy EDW Slowly-Changing Dimensions to Lakehouse Bronze

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From 20-year-old warehouse SCDs to a modern temporal backbone you can trust. This article lays out a practical, regulator-aware playbook for migrating legacy EDW SCD dimensions to a modern SCD2 Bronze layer in a medallion/lakehouse architecture. It covers what you are really migrating (semantics, not just tables), how to treat the EDW as a source system, how to build canonical SCD2 Bronze, how to run both platforms in parallel, and how to prove to auditors and regulators that nothing has been lost or corrupted in the process.

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Enterprise Point-in-Time (PIT) Reconstruction: The Regulatory Playbook

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This article sets out the definitive regulatory playbook for enterprise Point-in-Time (PIT) reconstruction in UK Financial Services. It explains why PIT is now a supervisory expectation: driven by PRA/FCA reviews, Consumer Duty, s166 investigations, AML/KYC forensics, and model risk, and makes a clear distinction between “state as known” and “state as now known”. Covering SCD2 foundations, entity resolution, precedence versioning, multi-domain alignment, temporal repair, and reproducible rebuild patterns, it shows how to construct a deterministic, explainable PIT engine that can withstand audit, replay history reliably, and defend regulatory outcomes with confidence.

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