Bitemporality for data compliance

An Intellyx analyst guide

By Jason Bloomberg and Eric Newcomer, Intellyx

Bitemporal data separates when something happened in your business from when your systems recorded it. For financial services firms managing regulatory reporting, audit requirements, and data quality challenges, this architectural approach provides forensic precision without relying on costly data copies or time-consuming lineage reconstruction.​

Traditional databases overwrite records when corrections arrive or late data surfaces. A bitemporal data for regulatory compliance system preserves valid time (when the trade executed, the payment cleared, or the position changed) and transaction time (when your system captured or corrected that information). This dual-temporal design lets you reconstruct historical states at any point and track every amendment without losing the original record.​

Download the white paper for in-depth details and actionable bitemporal data for regulatory compliance strategies.

Your team will learn practical implementation patterns for schema design, timestamps, and as-of joins that avoid write contention and reduce operational overhead. The guide addresses specific problems: 

• Recreating derivatives trades as they appeared at execution versus after corrections; 
• Detecting spoofing patterns across trade intent histories; 
• Handling late-arriving payments data for fraud detection; and 
• Answering regulators’ most critical forensic question: what did you know and when did you know it?​

or data architects and engineers, this white paper provides vendor-neutral explanations of the pitfalls of applying bitemporal patterns with database technologies, while supporting compliance, back-testing, and operational recovery.

If your organization struggles with data quality in regulatory compliance reporting, spends heavily on duplicated historical data, or lacks the ability to replay business processes with accuracy, bitemporal data compliance offers a straightforward technical solution. 

Download this guide to understand how to implement bitemporal data for regulatory compliance, avoid common pitfalls, and build data systems that meet audit requirements while enabling deeper analytics and faster incident response.​