COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRES: CAPABILITIES
RegEd’s Compliance Questionnaires provides a robust set of integrated, workflow-driven, enterprise tools that enables firms to initiate, distribute and track annual compliance questionnaires required by FINRA, and other critical questionnaires integral to maintaining a strong compliance program.
FINRA
Integration
FINRA WebEFT prepopulates questionnaires with representatives’ data to minimize manual data entry and enable reps to easily view and confirm that data on file is accurate.
Sophisticated
Workflow
Workflows can be configured to mirror the firm’s hierarchy and operational processes including complex, multi-stage workflows for review and sign-off.
Identify
Risk
Flag key questions, or an entire questionnaire, to isolate critical areas for priority compliance review during the annual attestation process.
Improve
Transparency
Provides comprehensive views of status and automatic alerts of deficiencies so that they can be addressed on a timely basis and the firm can ensure the compliance loop is properly closed.
Best Practice
Compliance Content
Leverage turnkey questionnaire content developed by RegEd subject matter experts as the basis for your own questionnaire. Content maps to regulatory requirements and established industry best practices. Learn more.
RegEd’s Compliance Questionnaires enables stakeholders to identify and analyze deficiencies and outliers and report on the results. Using the system’s risk-based flagging tool, key stakeholders can easily identify, prioritize, address and report on critical compliance deficiencies, using a weighted ranking.
COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRES: RELATED RESOURCES
Content covering the latest news and best practices for managing compliance questionnaires and other critical compliance processes, from industry and RegEd subject matter experts.
FEATURED ARTICLE: Best Practices for Annual Compliance Questionnaires
This articles discusses how firms can leverage their Annual Compliance Questionnaire (“ACQ”) in many ways, beyond just protecting against regulatory risk.
BLOG POST: Leverage Pre-Audit Questionnaires to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Risk of Non-Compliance
This blog post reviews RegEd’s Pre-audit questionnaire (PAQ) functionality and how it has enabled compliance and audit professionals to reduce the need for manual transfer and significantly improve audit cycle time.
WEBINAR: FINRA, SEC and State Securities Enforcement Trends
FINRA, the SEC and state regulators have stepped up enforcement efforts in recent years, resulting in unprecedented sanctions. This panel of compliance and legal experts discuss these regulators’ enforcement priorities and methodologies, and examine lessons from recent cases and examination sweeps that shed light on how firms and their employees can avoid becoming the subject of an enforcement proceeding.
ARTICLE: SEC-Compliant Electronic Storage and Designated Third-Party Services
This article discusses how firms are required to maintain electronic records in a format that complies with SEC rules and how they can leverage RegEd’s electronic recordkeeping capabilities to comply with these requirements.
COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRES: RELATED SOLUTIONS
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Plan, schedule, conduct, resolve and report on branch audits. The solution significantly reduces manual processes, while enabling firms to effectively identify and remediate areas of potential risk before they result in non-compliance risk.
COMPLAINT MANAGEMENT
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POLICIES & PROCEDURES
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CONTACT US
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