Compliant communications

5 Tips to enhance voice surveillance

With regulatory expectations around voice channels increasing, firms need to ensure that they’re not only capturing relevant voice channels, but using voice data to enhance their surveillance and compliance.

Regulatory whispers forewarn U.S. swap dealers of voice surveillance focus

Does recent enforcement action from the CFTC and NFA, along with regulatory messaging from the SEC, suggest that U.S. regulators are turning their focus to voice?

Another day, another SEC fine: The SEC charges six credit agencies $49 million for recordkeeping failures

As the SEC rolls out another combined civil penalty, this time against credit rating agencies for recordkeeping failures, firms must look to ensure tone from the top, while the regulator must implement more robust deterrence methods to prevent further violations.

Change the record – SEC charges 26 firms combined $390 million for recordkeeping failures

With the SEC and CFTC acting against over two dozen firms for recordkeeping failures relating to off-channel communications, when will financial services finally get the message on communications compliance?

Regulatory Wrap Episode 36: ASIC’s Crackdown on Communication Risk

In Regulatory Wrap for the week to July 26, Jennie Clarke discusses ASIC’s recently defined expectations on communications risk and subsequent charges that prove its strict stance on noncompliance.

Generation AI: What are the recordkeeping rules for generative AI platforms?

Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT have presented financial services with tremendous opportunity and tremendous risk – but how are firms beginning to use them within operations, and what are the implications of these practices? Regulators, including FINRA, have weighed in with enforcements and requirements on how to best proceed in navigating the landscape of AI technologies as they become more multifaceted.

Back to bASICs – Australian regulator sets out business communications expectations

The Australian securities regulator has joined its global neighbors in clearly setting out expectations around business communications risks, and how firms should mitigate them.

The Source Podcast: Garbage in, garbage out – Why data quality and metadata integrity matter

In episode three, we're joined by Garrett Chow, Director, Commercial Operations at Global Relay, to get to grips with data quality and the importance of metadata retention. Having access to complete communications data and metadata, in the right format that’s easily sortable and searchable, can make all the difference between good regulatory relations – or being told to clean up your act.

Global Relay Industry Insights: Compliant Communications 2024

Global Relay has compiled and analyzed industry responses to regulatory action to lift the lid on how compliance, risk, and surveillance executives are managing business communication, and their attitudes to emerging risk, from AI to social media.

Social surveillance: The importance of comms capture for social media compliance

In addition to capturing communications channels like email, IM, and SMS, compliance teams must realize the importance of capturing data from social media platforms. To effectively manage widely used applications, firms should consider social surveillance and strategies to curb risks.

The Source Podcast: Getting into scrapes – Why you can’t scrape by on compliance

In our second episode we're joined by Vince Dimase, Global Director of Customer Strategy, LSEG, as we dive into why scraping is never the solution. While some providers believe scraping is ‘good enough’ when capturing communications, when it comes to compliance firms run the risk of not having the full data picture. We review why native connections and capture-from-source will keep organizations out of regulatory scrapes.

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