The Conduct Chronicles – Does the CFTC practice what it preaches?
Emma Parry examines the CFTC's performance, revealing concerns about its conduct in legal proceedings and internal operational failings, highlighting the urgent need for reform and accountability.
The Conduct Chronicles – The challenge of proving market abuse
With the proliferation of communications channels and the evolution of tech, data completeness has never been more critical in tackling market abuse.
Global Relay Industry Insights: Compliant Communications 2025
As data comprehensiveness becomes mission critical, the intersection between recordkeeping and surveillance is more important than ever.
Is FINRA focusing on fairness by reducing HSP compliance burdens?
The SEC's January 2025 settlements for off-channel comms violations introduced lighter compliance terms, creating a divergence between earlier enforcement actions that imposed stricter membership oversight requirements on FINRA firms. After the SEC's rejection of a petition to review the pre-2025 settlements, FINRA is now looking to level the field by easing collateral consequences.
Social media as a risk for financial services
Financial services face four key challenges with the emergence of social media channels use for business communications, Global Relay's Director of Regulatory Intelligence, Rob Mason, and Head of Content, Jennifer Clarke note these as: market risk, advertising risk, recordkeeping risk, and consumer harm.
The Conduct Chronicles – The Emerging Risks of LinkedIn
As social media opens up new avenues of communication, businesses face a new set of challenges. From possibilities of insider trading to investment scams, firms must take the necessary precautions to mitigate these potential risks.
Regulators give firms a thumb’s down for not capturing emojis
Regulators are increasingly scrutinizing the use of emojis and avatars in communications within financial services, due to their potential for ambiguity and misuse. There is a growing need for enhanced monitoring to circumvent any risks and to capture misconduct.
What does the data of 12,000 financial organizations reveal about industry trends?
On February 5, 2025, we were joined by a panel of compliance and surveillance experts to explore top compliance trends, answering questions including whether the FCA is complicating compliance, how AI is being used for surveillance, and if conduct and culture should be high on firm’s agendas.
A key lesson from JP Morgan’s $350 million fine: data completeness is critical – have you got eyes on all your comms?
JPMorgan's $350 million fine highlights the urgent need for firms to capture and monitor all communications, including GenAI, to stay compliant with FINRA and DOJ regulations.
IM impact: Are you accounting for emerging instant messaging channels?
Communications compliance persists as a regulatory focus area - but, amid a landscape of fast-emerging instant messaging applications, are firms treating IM platforms as a compliance priority?
CIRO’s 2025 Compliance Playbook: Navigating cybersecurity, third-party risks, and social media rules
CIRO's 2025 Annual Report reveals it's priorities for the year ahead, namely a focus on cybersecurity, third-party risk and social media.