Employee Trade Compliance Platform
Making Compliance Simple And Easy
Automate and streamline employee trade pre-clearance and related conflict detection workflows. Highly configurable and user-friendly for both monitored employees and compliance teams, the STAR Platform reduces operational friction and firm risk.
YOUR FIRM, YOUR RULES
Configurable Rules Engine
The STAR Platform is powered by a robust rules engine and configured to your organization’s unique needs and policies. This leverages vast amounts of data like employee information, user group and line of business relationships, and marketplace data, to automate employee trade pre-clearance, surveillance and other conflict-checking workflows to streamline processes and increase efficiency. Easily configurable, compliance teams can manage and update the rules engine directly from their admin portal.
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On-Demand Configurability
Extensive workflows are highly configurable, powered by conditional logic.
Multi-Jurisdictional
Tailor time zone, currency, language, and more for global employees.
Intuitive UX
Drive employee adoption with ease and simplify employee access via standard authentication and/or single sign-on.
Actionable Intelligence
Quickly and easily get real-time analytics through customizable dashboards and reports.
Multi-Layered Protection
Safeguard sensitive data with multi-layered access rights based on division, department, role, location, and more.
Future-Ready Architecture
Gain a 360-degree view of your employee compliance anywhere with scalable, cloud-ready software and integrations with Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI.
FAST, AUTOMATED DECISIONS
Pre-Clearance & Surveillance
- Employees complete a simple trade request form and within seconds, receive an automated approval or denial decision by the rules engine.
- Escalation channels can be defined for trades that need further analysis and review, alerting the employee’s manager and/or compliance team members in real-time.
- Trade requests can be submitted in the employee’s local currency and the entire workflow is available in multiple languages.
- The trade request form is configurable and can collect additional information over and above the standard recommended fields.
- Pricing and reference data available on 35 million+ global securities, including cryptocurrencies, mutual funds, ETFs, UITs, close-end funds and leveraged loans. Learn More
FAST, AUTOMATED DECISIONS
Employee Trade Reconciliation
- Automate transaction-matching with our community of broker relationships via electronic feeds, refreshed every twenty-four hours and monitored by a dedicated team.
- Give employees one, easy place to upload broker statements and set up automated reminders to alert employees when statements are past-due.
- Eliminate manual statement-data entry with Star’s Secure Data Entry Service.
EASY REVIEWS AND INVESTIGATIONS
Case Management
- View all possible personal trading breaches that may require investigation and resolution by the compliance team.
- Collate data and evidence, add annotations, and assign cases to relevant team members for resolution.
- Record the entire case lifecycle for audit purposes. Use management reports to identify trends and opportunities for additional employee training and education.
DEMONSTRATE REGULATORY RIGOR
Certifications and Attestations
- Pre-schedule certification periods across the business and set up automated reminders to support on-time completion.
- Collate employee activities and data at regular intervals into certs and attestations within STAR.
- Push information, such as the latest firm policies and regulations, so employees can certify they’ve read and understand them.
- Configure certification templates by user group, role, location, and more so employees only review and attest to what’s relevant to them.
- Give employees an easy way to flag inaccuracies or report anything that’s been missed from within STAR as part of the certification workflow.
DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING
Reporting & Analytics
- The Personal Trading Dashboard presents critical data through intuitive visuals for quick consumption, analysis, and action.
- Access to 100+ standard report templates with the ability to design and build custom reports to meet your needs.
- Generate and schedule reports for automatic distribution across the compliance department and greater organization.
DATA ENRICHMENT
Global Security Master & GICS
- Pricing and reference data available on more than 35 million global securities including cryptocurrencies, mutual funds, ETFs, UITs, close-end funds and leveraged loans.
- GICS, one of the most popular industry/sector coding schemes can be used to set comprehensive trade restrictions and reviews by industry.
Employee Conflicts of Interest
Protect your employees and reduce risk with a suite of solutions designed to address a range of issues.
Ensure employee trading and investments meet all regulatory and internal policy requirements.
Gain comprehensive pre-clearance and post-trade oversight across 100+ crypto exchanges and 25+ blockchains.
Simplify declarations for employees holding non-publicly traded investments.
Track and report gifts and entertainment—given or received—to stay compliant with anti-bribery regulations.
Easily capture and manage employee disclosures for external business engagements.
Enforce pay-to-play thresholds and minimize employee-related risk with purpose-built tracking and controls.
Monitor employee trading against market activity and public news to detect potential insider risks.
Incident Management
Streamline HR and compliance processes while providing employees with a safe, anonymous space to report incidents.
Offer employees multiple reporting channels and simplify incident intake, management, and resolution.
Enable global reporting with multilingual support across 65+ languages.
MNPI & Enterprise Conflicts
Organize and manage your most important inside information data flows and conduct conflict searches with ease—all from a single solution.
Centralize MNPI oversight with tools for wall crossings, insider lists, restricted lists, and more.
Manage conflicts, monitor deal teams, and streamline wall crossing workflows with StarCompliance Enterprise.
Individual Accountability & Competency
Comply with global accountability regimes by fortifying employee accountability, training, and competency.
Meet regulatory requirements across the UK, Singapore, Ireland, and Australia.
Track employee training, manage certifications, and ensure ongoing compliance through customizable oversight and reporting.
License & Registration
Gain transparency and confidently manage license and registration workflows in one centralized platform.
Streamlined broker-dealer licensing and registration processes for employees and compliance teams.
Compliance Teams
Providing a single, user-friendly system to monitor and manage employee activity and behavior.
Human Resources
Empowering executives, HR representatives, and compliance managers to uphold best practices and mitigate risk.
Technology Teams
Supporting IT teams with easy implementation and seamless migration.
