The Past, Present & Future of Political Donations
How the SEC’s ‘Look Back’ Provision Can Affect Employee Compliance Recently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Obra Capital Management, LLC with…
EMPLOYEE COMPLIANCE
Political Donations & Activities Compliance Software
Star helps compliance teams streamline pre-clearance, automate donation surveillance, and reconcile employee political activity within one centralized system—strengthening oversight while reducing manual effort and audit exposure.
FAST, AUTOMATED DECISIONS
Bring Structure, Visibility, and Control to Political Contribution Compliance
Managing political contributions across employees, jurisdictions, and evolving regulations can quickly become fragmented and difficult to oversee. Many firms still rely on spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected approval processes that create visibility gaps, slow reconciliation efforts, and increase exposure to pay-to-play violations.
Star centralizes political contribution oversight into one configurable compliance workflow—helping firms automate pre-clearance, surveil publicly disclosed donations, reconcile employee activity faster, and maintain audit-ready records with greater confidence.
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Centralized
Oversight
Replace fragmented manual processes with a unified system of record for political contribution activity, approvals, surveillance, and reconciliation.
Faster
Reconciliation
By collecting and standardizing donation data as it becomes publicly available, Star helps firms identify and reconcile activity faster while reducing review delays.
Configurable Compliance Workflows
Tailor declaration forms, review structures, routing rules, approval workflows, and matching logic to align with your organization’s policies and operational requirements.
Audit-Ready
Reporting
Maintain defensible records with centralized reporting, reconciliation history, and integrated case management designed to support audits and regulatory reviews.
One Connected Workflow for Political Contribution Oversight
STREAMLINE POLICY APPROVALS
Automate Pre-Clearance Reviews
Enable employees to quickly submit political contribution requests through configurable declaration forms and automated review workflows that help compliance teams streamline approvals while maintaining consistent policy enforcement.
REAL-TIME RECONCILIATION
Track Donations and Reconcile Faster
Star continuously surveils publicly disclosed political contribution data across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Automated matching and reconciliation workflows help compliance teams validate disclosures, identify unapproved activity, and investigate discrepancies without relying on fragmented manual processes.
REPORT WITH CONFIDENCE
Maintain Audit-Ready Compliance Records
Generate detailed reports spanning declarations, approvals, donation activity, reconciliation history, and policy violations from one centralized platform. When activity requires escalation, integrated case management capabilities help compliance teams document investigations, evidence, and resolution history in one place.
Through Star’s BallotReady partnership, firms gain access to enriched candidate reference data spanning federal, state, and local elections. Structured candidate and jurisdictional data helps improve pre-clearance decisions and reduce time-consuming manual research.
Designed for Modern Compliance Teams
Political Donations & Activities is built within the StarCompliance Enterprise Platform, allowing firms to leverage centralized user management, configurable workflows, reporting, auditing, notifications, and shared compliance infrastructure across the broader compliance ecosystem.
With Star, firms can strengthen internal controls, improve operational efficiency, and scale political contribution oversight with confidence.
Trusted by firms around the world
Modernize political contribution compliance with Star.
Streamline pre-clearance, automate donation tracking, and reconcile employee political activity faster within one centralized compliance platform.
Gain access to political contribution data faster
Centralize and simplify your data and your searches
Save time and reduce risk through process automation
Featured Resource
Money, Power, and Regulation
Learn how to strengthen oversight of employee and corporate political donations with the right systems and controls to reduce risk, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and protect organizational integrity in an increasingly complex election landscape.
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