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Is Social Media Considered ‘Real Monitoring’?
A recent survey by Compliance Solutions at Charles Schwab found that compliance officers spend 11 hours per week monitoring their employees’ personal brokerage accounts, while half are closely monitoring social media platforms. One of the main challenges that compliance officers face is chasing data, which are “owned” by other departments. ...
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How Mature Is Your Information Governance Function?
Image: Most companies still have much work to do to turn their information governance into “mature” programs, where they can extract insight from their troves of data while minimizing security and privacy risks, according to a new report from the Information Governance Initiative. “To date, very few organizations have taken ...
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Hearsay Messages Gives Visibility and Control to Compliance Teams
Hearsay Social, provider of the Predictive Omnichannel Suite for advisors, recently unveiled Hearsay Messages, the first text messaging solution for advisors to compliantly exchange texts with clients and prospects using their current mobile device. Details inside.
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Cordium Launches Electronic Communications Review Service
Cordium, a global provider of compliance consulting and software solutions to the financial services industry, has launched a new electronic communications review service, offering a streamlined solution for investment firms. More inside.
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Datamyne Acquires Zepol
Datamyne a global business intelligence based on multinational trade data, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Zepol, a Minneapolis-based provider of online trade data tools. More inside.
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GFT Partners With EDM Council to Help Banks Assess Data Quality
GFT, a business, design and technology consultancy working with the top ten global investment banks, announces their partnership with the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council to support firms in the adoption of best practices for data management. Part of the service is the offer of a health check for banks ...
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Social Media: #Compliance Buzz
Trending online are the #Compliance and #Corpgov hashtags that compliance officers and governance practitioners around the world often turn to for emerging trends and latest news. Whether it’s sharing ideas about the ever-changing regulatory landscape or covering industry-related events, both hashtags are known to provide real-time information. This ...
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ICon Professional Services and Synergy Services Join Forces
In the face of rapid and tremendous change on the horizon for the independent workforce landscape, ICon Professional Services, a provider of contingent workforce management solutions, and Synergy Services, a provider of technology-enabled services for today’s global workforce, today announced that they have combined forces. Details inside.
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Opus Global Acquires Alacra
Opus Global, a provider of SaaS-based compliance solutions, announced that it has acquired Alacra, a provider of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Reference Data business information solutions. More inside.
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Hiperos and Dow Jones Announce Strategic Partnership
Hiperos, an Opus Global company and a provider of third-party management software, and Dow Jones, a global provider of news and business information, this week announced a strategic partnership to deliver third-party anti-bribery/anti-corruption (ABAC) compliance solutions globally. Details inside.
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ISO 20022: Tepid U.S. Embrace for New Financial Standard
Image: The push to adopt a new ISO standard for financial transactions is gaining momentum on a global scale—even as the United States continues to weigh the business case for it. “It’s important because it is seen as the standard that all new financial transactions will move to over time,” ...
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NAVEX Global Acquires The Network
Two big players in GRC software, NAVEX Global and The Network, have announced a merger. The company will still be known as NAVEX, and it will bring together dominance in whistleblower hotlines (The Network) and case management, training, and consulting (NAVEX). It is the first major consolidation in the GRC ...
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Pegasystems, DLA Piper Collaborate to Helps Banks With Regulations
Software firm Pegasystems and global law firm DLA Piper have collaborated to assist Pega in offering new software capabilities enabling financial institutions to reduce the time and costs associated with managing rapidly evolving laws and regulations. More inside.
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Hearsay Social Launches Social Business Maturity Model
Hearsay Social, provider of the Predictive Social Suite for financial advisors and insurance agents, announced the launch of its Social Business Maturity Model to help guide program development and advancement for financial services firms. The Social Business Maturity Model provides a quantitative metric for companies with large distribution teams to ...
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software - Maintain Your IT Budget with Consistent Compliance Practices
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software can help state and local governments move from a reactive to a proactive stance with their IT systems. It lets them answer the question, "How long since your last…?" with a comforting "less than an hour ago." Read this third-party report to learn about ...
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Best Practices Guide for IT Governance & Compliance
Federal regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the more recent Payment Card Industry (PCI) initiative, require businesses to know exactly what changes are being made to structured and unstructured data in their corporate networks. As a result, IT organizations need to ...
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Mending Social Media Compliance Gaps
Two recent studies hold both good and bad news on the state of social media compliance today: Compliance officers no longer approach corporate use of social media with the trepidation they once did, but those channels leave companies increasingly vulnerable to regulatory violations. According to these studies, the financial services ...
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Data Mining
In recent months, numerous companies have found themselves the target of legal and enforcement actions for obtaining or using personal data without consent. The kicker: Most of these actions could have been easily avoided, since most of the infractions were clear violations of contract law. “If companies simply complied with ...
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New Data Analysis Tool for OTC Contracts Launched
Deloitte recently announced an alliance with Recommind, an information intelligence provider, to deliver a managed service to investment banks, transforming the way over-the-counter International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) agreements are managed. "Working with Recommind will allow us to improve the way our customers’ OTC Derivatives Contracts are managed, speeding ...
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DTCC Launches New Data Products Offering
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, last month launched a new centralized data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products. This launch will include the expansion of DTCC’s Exchange Traded Funds and Corporate Actions ISO 20022 data product offerings, to be offered ...