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Federated Data Governance in Banking: How ABN AMRO Scaled from 300 Data Owners to 15 Data Domains
Data StrategyData Products
54 min
Host
Kris PeetersGuest
JMJan Mark Pleijsant
How do you turn governance from a bottleneck into a business accelerator - in a bank?
In this episode of The Data Playbook, host Kris Peeters talks with Jan Mark Pleijsant, Senior Data Strategy & Governance Advisor at ABN AMRO Bank, about their move from 300+ dispersed data owners to 15 clear, business-aligned data domains and what it took to make federated governance work in a highly regulated environment.
Who should listen: CIOs, CDOs, Heads of Data, and Data Leaders building scalable, compliant data platforms in complex organizations - especially in financial services.
What you'll see
- ▸Why “governance police” fails and how a federated model balances autonomy with oversight.
- ▸How ABN AMRO defined domains by the nature of data (customer, loans, payments) rather than shifting business units driving stability across reorganisations.
- ▸What “governance by design” looks like in practice (policies, standards, data lineage, quality, clear ownership).
- ▸The evolution from golden (source-aligned) datasets to consumer-ready data products (“pre-packaged salads”) that speed time-to-insight.
- ▸Why executive sponsorship, domain maturity, and delivery discipline are the real success factors.
- ▸How to measure domain maturity, prioritize critical reports (e.g., regulatory & exec dashboards), and avoid endless debates over definitions by making differences explicit.
Tags
Data GovernanceFederated GovernanceData DomainsData ProductsData LeadershipBanking DataABN AMROData Strategy
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