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 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Political Contributions Compliance
Streamline the pre-clearance, surveillance, and reconciliation process surrounding employee contributions to politicians and political entities.
FAST AUTOMATED DECISIONS
Pre-Clearance
- Employees submit pre-clearance requests and receive fast, automated approvals or denials.
- Define rules for automated cross-referencing of existing data when any pre-clearance request is made—reducing the potential for conflicts to slip between the cracks.
- Manage lists of individuals or political entities benefiting from any donations made by employees or your organization.
- Create custom profiles for each employee, apply donation limits to specific user groups, and set review thresholds that apply to users within those groups.
You can also pre-clear with the following STAR products:
Personal Trading, Gifts & Entertainment, Outside Activity, Private Investments
Employee Conflicts of Interest Solutions
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.
React faster
Daily alerts mean any new contributions reported to the public database get in front of you pronto, with no time spent searching site after site for contributions that put the firm at risk.
Integrate fully
A powerful API lets users integrate political contributions data into existing firm systems, and a built-in workflow ensures the data is easily and completely accessible for casework or audits.
Go live faster
New users are never kept waiting for long. Once your firm is onboarded, you’ll be up and running within days and the risk associated with employee political activity starts going down.
Work smarter
Navigate easily with intuitive UI, filters, and searches. Innovative features, like memo fields that can be saved against records to evidence review means your bases are always covered.
Search More Widely
With a database of over 14,000 nicknames, we capture name variations of your monitored employees and their family members to lessen the chance of risky activity going unnoticed.
Capture More Broadly
People can have more than one address. We capture them all, so you can be sure contributions aren’t going unmonitored just because the same person contributed in different states.
Fresh Data Daily
Data is collected daily but how often it’s refreshed by the federal government, states, or municipalities can vary. Typically, the more populous the state the more frequently the data is published publicly.
Export With Ease
Data can be exported in an editable Excel/CSV format by employee groups or at the individual level so you can sort, manipulate, and review it on your own terms.
Data Privacy
Data can be exported in an editable Excel/CSV format by employee groups or at the individual level so you can sort, manipulate, and review it on your own terms.
Trusted by firms around the world
Streamline Your Political Contribution Compliance
Automatically monitor employee state, local, and federal political contributions and reduce the risk associated with breaking pay-to-play laws.
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
When Employee Political Donations Become a Business Challenge
Find out how you can safeguard your company’s growth and brand reputation from the risks surrounding political contributions in Star’s latest Executive Brief.
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