Australian BEAR & FAR Solutions
Star’s dedicated IAR solution was designed to help accountable entities establish and maintain a regime for their accountable persons and adapt to changes in regulation as they occur.
Compliance No Longer Needs To Be Complex
Be certain you’re complying with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) guidance on the Banking Executive Accountability Regime and the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR).
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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.
Establish and maintain an accountability regime for accountable persons
- Manage Accountability Maps & Accountability Statements for Senior Executives across the organization.
- Complete versioning control of Maps, Statements and other key documentation.
- Provide an easy way for Accountable Persons to document Reasonable Steps.
- Fully auditable.
Fit & Proper person workflows for accountable persons
- Gain control of all aspects of the fitness & proper assessment process – with compliance technology that makes it easy for your employees.Manage the entire process – from identifying accountable persons and assigning activities to personal development and supervision.
- Perform annual and ad-hoc fit and proper assessments with sign-off and automated escalation built-in.
- Use robust, transparent dashboard reporting to gain insights into individual and firm-wide results.
Manage Conduct Rules attestation & breaches
- Raise awareness of employee conduct issues across your firm and expand individual accountability. Fostering a culture of strong values and ethical behavior is what builds respected, reputable businesses.
- Implement annual declaration workflows and store declarations for good record-keeping.
- Record and manage breaches and regulatory reporting.
- Improve the accuracy and efficiency of regulatory reporting.
Employee Conflicts of Interest
Protect your employees and reduce risk with a suite of solutions designed to address a range of issues.
Ensure employee personal trading and investments comply with all regulatory requirements and company policies.
Keep compliance teams in-the-know without compromising employees’ trading experience.
Simplify the declaration of employee private investments with outside organizations.
Automatically pre-clear client gifts or entertainment to prevent breaches of anti-bribery and corruption regulations.
Avoid regulatory compliance breaches arising from employee external business activities.
Safeguard your business from conflicts of interest arising from political alignments or associations among employees worldwide.
Actively manage employee trading in the context of current market activity and news events to protect your company’s reputation.
Incident & Policy Management
Streamline HR and compliance processes by providing employees with clear, accessible policies and a safe space to report incidents.
Provide employees with multiple methods for reporting concerns while streamlining incident collection, management, and resolution.
Create, maintain, and manage your policies in one central, easily accessible place.
Support widespread policy adoption and adherence with a robust portfolio of ethics and compliance learning content.
Encourage and collect candid feedback from departing employees to drive continuous improvement.
Support 65+ languages for ease of reporting, no matter where employees reside.
MNPI & Enterprise Conflicts
Centralize deal data and identify business and employee conflicts
Star’s Compliance Control Room lets you organize and manage your most important inside information data flows and conduct conflict searches with ease—all from a single platform.
Star provides a one-stop shop for managing MNPI, wall crossings, insider lists, restricted lists, and more. Interested in automation and time savings?
Around the globe, investment banks are using the STAR Platform to spot enterprise conflicts, manage wall crossings, monitor deal teams, and more. Interested in streamlining workflows and improving transparency?
Accountability & Competency
Comply with global accountability regimes by fortifying employee accountability, training, and competency.
Strengthen your employees’ individual accountability and effectively demonstrate compliance to regulators, all with complete traceability.
Develop a culture of compliance, drive firm-wide adoption, and protect your firm’s reputation with a solution that builds trust and certainty.
How Firms in Australia Are Transitioning To The Financial Accountability Regime
