NICE announced that one of the world’s leading global investment banks will be deploying the NICE COMPASS Communication Compliance Assurance solution. By streamlining and automating its financial communication compliance processes, the NICE COMPASS solution will enable the bank to meet regulatory requirements while also reducing compliance-related workloads, costs and risks.
Through its deployment of NICE COMPASS, the leading global investment bank will be able to:
Ensure accurate records of trading communications, reduce workload and save money using automated system health checks for voice trade communications and recording. Instead of requiring teams of employees to ‘walk’ the trading floor, place test calls on turrets and phone sets, and then retrieve the recordings to confirm that all systems are working as intended, the bank will now be able to centrally automate system health checks through NICE COMPASS to ensure that all systems are operational and all regulated users are being recorded.
Save time, ensure compliance and reduce the risk of fines by providing evidence of compliance to regulators with automated compliance assurance reporting. With NICE COMPASS’ auto-generated reports, the bank can confidently audit and document trade communications recording compliance and provide evidence to regulators that all regulated users’ trade communications are being properly recorded, archived and retained, as well as track and manage legal holds. All information is available through a browser-based dashboard, giving compliance managers complete insight across the global enterprise.
Leverage NICE COMPASS’ automated call extraction capability to adhere to strict turnaround times for addressing regulator requests, as they become broader, more frequent, and more far reaching. Compliance managers can quickly and easily find, retrieve and export large volumes of recordings for a compliance investigations. Voice recordings can be extracted in a fraction of the time, giving compliance managers ample time to review and verify data before responding to the regulator.
Use automated provisioning to centrally manage moves, adds and changes, and ensure compliant recording and retention for all regulated users across the enterprise. An expanded API (Application Programming Interface) enables NICE COMPASS to automatically synchronize with the bank’s golden-source systems for up-to-date information, eliminating errors typically associated with manual data entry.
“New financial communication compliance regulations are exacerbating the burden on FSOs, especially those that still predominantly rely on manual, labor-intensive compliance assurance processes,” said Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE. “This significant purchase of NICE COMPASS by a large global tier one investment bank highlights the challenges of complying with ever-expanding regulations and the essential role that NICE COMPASS can play in alleviating these challenges through automation.”
New and emerging regulations are exerting tremendous stress on Financial Services Organizations (FSOs) by expanding the scope of employees, asset classes, communication channels, and devices that need to be recorded and monitored, requiring evidence of compliance, and imposing new benchmarks for timely response to regulators. Specifically, FSOs that wish to conduct business in the European market need to ensure they have a form of substituted compliance that follows similar guidelines and processes as detailed in the MiFID II requirements. MiFID II is the first regulation of its kind to impose an additional requirement around evidence of recording. Global FSOs are also subject to the FX Global Code of Conduct, which states that as a matter of good practice, firms must ensure that all records of financial trading communications are complete and accurate in order for surveillance to be effective. Against this regulatory backdrop, NICE COMPASS is helping FSOs reduce risk and save time by automating processes around financial communication compliance, reporting and regulatory response.
NICE COMPASS, together with NICE Trading Recording (NTR), provide a comprehensive solution for recording all trade communications (front office and back office, fixed and mobile, and unified communications), and for assuring complete compliance with financial regulations. Most of the world’s leading banks rely on the NTR solution for reliable trade communications recording for turrets, desk phones, mobile phones, and Unified Communications platforms. NICE COMPASS and NTR are part of NICE’s comprehensive suite of compliance solutions for the financial services industry.
NICE is the world’s leading financial trading communication compliance solution provider, serving a majority of the largest financial services organizations globally. NICE’s communication compliance assurance and holistic surveillance solutions help banks reliably capture and analyze omnichannel communications to ensure compliance with increasing regulatory requirements including MiFID II, MAR, FX Code of Conduct, Dodd-Frank and future directives.