How to meet expanded non-financial misconduct rules: A practical guide
Download Global Relay’s practical non-financial misconduct guide for non-bank firms. Explore the FCA’s expanded rules, key compliance obligations, and how communications capture, surveillance, archiving, and investigation tools can help your firm build a defensible NFM control framework.
Operational resilience in the Nordics: Reducing third-party and cloud concentration risk
More than 3,000 major ICT incidents were reported across the EU's financial sector in 2025 - the first full year of reporting under the ESA and DORA. How can Nordic-based firms minimize their exposure to these risks?
Finfluencers in Sweden: What the new regulatory landscape means for financial firms
Financial influencers, or ‘finfluencers’, have quietly become one of the most influential distribution channels in Sweden - more than one in five young adults trust financial information from finfluencers in the region. We explore the emerging risks.
Explainable AI in surveillance: Model governance, testing, and the new “prove it works” standard
The FCA received 3,806 STORs in 2025 and found real weaknesses in how firms govern the models meant to catch that risk. This guide covers what explainable AI in surveillance means, the governance lifecycle regulators expect, and how firms evidence it.
Off-channel communications: What they are, why they’re still a compliance risk, and how to manage them
Off-channel communications are business messages sent on channels a firm can't capture, retain, or supervise. Here's what the SEC, FINRA, and FCA require, why bans don't work, and how firms bring conversations back on the record.
Checklist: 10 steps to help you meet the FCA’s NFM-rule
With the FCA’s September 2026 NFM deadline looming, we’ve created a 10-step checklist to help FSMA-authorized firms prepare - covering policy, HR, surveillance, training, and regulatory notification requirements
Weak links in the chain: A compliance guide to third-party risk
Learn how to spot third-party risk red flags early, from unestablished vendors to multi-vendor security gaps, and stay ahead of FCA, DORA, and SEC rules.
Now you see it, now you don’t – Why ephemeral messaging capture remains critical for compliance
Regulators like the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ continue to expect firms to maintain proactive compliance programs that support investigations and protect against fraud, which includes managing the use of disappearing messages. We explore the compliance implications of ephemeral messaging and outline practical steps to mitigate risk and meet regulatory obligations.
Non-Financial Misconduct Rules Extending to SMCR Firms: An essential guide
With the FCA set to expand its non-financial misconduct (NFM) rules to 37,000 additional firms, we've put together an essential guide to what the changes mean, and how firms can prepare for them.
A guide to recordkeeping in 2026: best practice, tools, and future state for the Nordics
Explore what Nordic regulators expect from financial institutions in 2026, from proactive data inspections to off-channel communications capture. Learn about recent enforcement actions, key regulatory priorities, and the tools needed to build a defensible, future-proof recordkeeping strategy.
Surveillance at a crossroads: What 1LOD’s 2026 Benchmarking Survey tells us about the state of the industry
The 1LOD 2026 Surveillance Benchmarking Survey, sponsored by Global Relay, reveals an industry at a turning point. AI is accelerating, regulatory expectations are rising, and culture is now a compliance issue — but data quality and uneven implementation mean many firms are still playing catch-up.