You can also pre-clear with the following STAR products:
Personal Trading, Gifts & Entertainment, Outside Activity, Private Investments
Centralize and simplify your data and your searches
Save time and reduce risk through process automation
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
Due to state privacy laws, users only have access to the contributions made by firm employees and their family members, not to the entire contribution database.
28 Mar, 2023
The process of registering for and obtaining a financial securities license can be a complex and time-consuming nightmare. In the US, individuals selling investments professionally are required to obtain a securities license from FINRA. This is a multi-step process where securities professionals must pass qualifying exams, in which there are different levels, to demonstrate their competence before they are allowed to engage in certain securities activities. If firms fail to stay ahead, not only is it costly for them to pay for the reopening of exam windows or late filings, but also the loss of time from being unable to capitalize on the activities of their registered representatives.
15 Mar, 2023
When a biopharmaceutical industry executive reportedly learned in 2016 that a rival planned to buy the company he worked for, he is alleged to have bought options in another competitor’s stock prior to the news of the acquisition going public. This led to him being accused by the SEC in 2021 of insider trading. But while the SEC prosecutes approximately 50 insider trading cases a year, this was not the typical misappropriation of information or tipper/tippee liability but an instance of what has since been dubbed ‘shadow trading’.
08 Mar, 2023
International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on the advances that women have made in society and culture and to recognise the challenges we still need to overcome.