With M&A activity on the rise, a commitment to a strong data management program can help businesses to avoid expensive — and often dangerous — compliance and risk aggregation missteps. Kelvin Dickenson of Opus explains. In 2018, there were 375 M&A deals valued at over $1 billion in the United States alone. Even in years with the least M&A activity, M&A transactions happen with enough frequency to effect substantial changes that impact numerous credit unions, banks, exchanges, broker-dealers and investment or commodities firms, not to mention many nonfinancial institutions. Target companies end up with new parent companies, creating new hierarchical structures that can affect…