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.
01 Jun, 2023
The news agenda never stands still, and the regulatory landscape constantly shifts in its wake – the introduction of new and updated regulations is frequently event-driven, with legislation enacted in response to bad news, such as economic crises, geopolitical disruption, and large-scale financial crime.
18 May, 2023
The FCA relies on accurate and timely information from financial firms in order to identify malpractice and monitor their regulatory compliance. Failure to comply can result in severe consequences, not least of all significant fines. Use the recommendations in this guide to prepare your FCA reports and stay compliant.
10 May, 2023
When MiFID II was introduced in 2018, it dramatically altered the way sell-side research was issued to the buy-side, especially in the US. Specifically, European sell-side firms were required to unbundle trading and research, forcing almost all asset managers to pay for research in cash only. This is in direct contrast to the US, where it has been standard practice for buy-side firms to pay for research via order flow or commissions and doesn’t permit broker-dealers to receive cash remuneration.