At its annual conference held in Washington, DC in May of this year, FINRA included a session to provide guidance for practices at FINRA member firms regarding the use of emerging technology in compliance and operations.  The session included industry experts and FINRA staff in a panel addressing how emerging technologies are being utilized to improve and automate regulatory compliance.  


Panelists included Moderator Noah Egorin, Product Manager and Director of FINRA’s Firm Compliance Tools Unit; David Blisk, Founder and CEO of Spire Investment Partners, LLC; Rob Dearman, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Jackson National Life Insurance Company (the U.S. subsidiary of London-based Prudential PLC) and Len Smuglin, an Information Technology Exam Manager at FINRA.  


In the past several years, hundreds of FINRA member firms have given consideration to adopting RegTech technology-based compliance tools to better monitor their firms and brokers.  Will this new technology replace human beings?  Will it be able to detect wrongful and fraudulent activity?  Will investors’ life savings be safer?  Stay tuned...


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