Financial Services
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As technology continues to evolve, the financial services industry is faced with increasingly challenging records retention and oversight requirements. For over 20 years, Smarsh has been a key partner in helping organizations overcome these challenges. We enable our customers to manage the communications compliance process more quickly and effectively.
Our solutions empower financial services organizations to adopt the most innovative communications channels while meeting content retention and oversight obligations. We have helped over 6,500 customers embrace innovation, including broker-dealers, investment advisers, hedge funds, private equity firms, exchanges, commercial and retail banks, lenders and insurance agents.
Key financial services challenges
Challenges
Our Solutions
Comprehensive capture

Smarsh enables you to capture data from over 80 communication channels. This includes the most widely used email, instant messaging/collaboration, social media, mobile, voice and web platforms.
Content is captured in its native, unaltered format with its original conversational context intact. Once archived, content is automatically indexed and made searchable. This ensures that you are able to confidently meet regulatory obligations from FINRA, SEC, IIROC, FCA, GDPR and MiFID II.
Compliant storage & retention
Once captured, all content can be retained seamlessly in the integrated Smarsh Connected Archive – our immutable and context-aware data store.
Alternatively, content can be sent to any existing archive, application or data lake.
The Connected Archive provides you with a range of deployment options as well as customizable retention periods to meet your specific business needs.
Advanced search & export
Financial services organizations face complex and constantly evolving regulatory compliance requirements. This means that producing specific data for regulatory audits and examinations needs to be swift, easy and thorough.
Smarsh archiving solutions have advanced search capabilities that allow you to zero in on what you're looking for in your archived data. Content can then be packaged and produced on-demand. Our solutions support multiple export formats, enabling you to extract relevant data and send it to regulators or other end-users in the format they require.
Streamlined discovery
Preparing for litigation, early-case assessment and investigations is a recurrent challenge for financial services organizations. Our streamlined e-discovery solution makes collecting, preserving, reviewing and exporting content across all communications channels fast and efficient. This enables you to reduce risk as well as litigation costs.
Sophisticated supervision
A key challenge facing financial services industry professionals is identifying potential risk across all business-related electronic communications. Without the right supervision tools, manual reviews of messages across multiple channels waste considerable time and resources.
Smarsh archiving solutions highlight potential risks hidden within archived data. Customizable and sophisticated supervision policies help you zero in on the areas of risk that are most relevant to your business. Implement advanced multi-tier review queues, action panels, roles, reporting, escalation and many more functions. These ensure the efficient management of risk across all communications channels, as well as the ability to demonstrate evidence of supervision to regulators. Combined with analytics tools, dashboards and reporting capabilities, Smarsh enables you to not just see risk, but to stay ahead of it.
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Valuable solutions for all types of financial services organizations
Broker-Dealers
We enable broker-dealers to comply with SEC and FINRA recordkeeping rules and supervision guidelines.
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Registered Investment Advisors (RIA)
Investment advisers, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms, among others, rely on Smarsh to comply with SEC and CFTC regulations for electronic communications.
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Futures and Transfer Agents
Companies in the derivatives industry use Smarsh to help them meet NFA, CFTC and SEC recordkeeping and oversight obligations.
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Lending Compliance
We help lenders to capture and retain their communications content, ensuring that they comply with FFIEC guidance, Fair Lending Laws, the Truth in Lending Act and FTC rules.
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Banks
We empower banks to implement and enforce effective electronic communications recordkeeping, storage and supervision policies to meet increasingly complex regulatory requirements.
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MiFID II Regulated Firms
We ensure that organizations covered by MiFID II can stay ahead of evolving retention and supervision requirements for email, social media, instant messaging, voice content and more.
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