Is Your Data Compliant Under SEC Rule 17?
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rules 17a-3, 17a-4, and 17ad-7 were implemented under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which outlines data retention and accessibility standards for the securities industry. These rules and regulations impact financial services companies who deal with trade, brokering, or stocks, and require broker-dealers and transfer agents who store records, paper or electronic, to comply with precise regulations.
SEC Rule 17 regulates brokerage firms, transfer agents, clearing agencies, and the nation’s self-regulatory organizations (SROs) and specifies which documents should be retained, including purchase and sale documents, customer records, associated person records, customer complaints, and “certain other matters”.
What if you could ensure your organization maintains SEC Rule 17 compliance while also increasing the efficiency of your organization and saving money? Implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that utilize the latest technologies in order to digitize, manage, store, and route data while maintaining retention and accessibility standards, can save your organization time and money.
Learn more about SEC Rule 17, how you can stay compliant, and how you can save money by reading this blog article. It will help you match specific SEC Rules with the technology you need to become compliant.
Get your records under compliance and avoid potentially millions in fines with ECMNOW!.
EfficiencyNOW
• Leverage our patented artificial intelligence (AI) engine to intelligently recognize, sort, and retain your records to ensure efficiency and regulatory compliance.
• Search across multiple fields to quickly pinpoint the information you need to simplify the audit process.
• Utilize instant access to documents and effortlessly cross-reference between line-of-business (LOB) applications to unify multiple systems.
ControlNOW
• Manage your regulatory compliance and reduce the risk of human-errors by incorporating rules-based Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to your routine tasks.
• Track different document versions to ensure personal and team accountability using check-in and check-out functions.
• Ensure users have access to only what they need with multiple layers of security, including transmission, system, data, and application security.
MoneyNOW
• Save money and countless workforce hours by automating routine business processes.
• Cut costs by managing information in the cloud and avoid capital investments in hardware, software, and IT resources.
• Preserve all records in a single electronic system to protect your organization from SEC violation fines.
“In fiscal year 2016, the SEC brought a record 548 standalone or independent enforcement actions and obtained judgments and orders totaling more than $4 billion in disgorgement and penalties exposing financial reporting related misconduct by companies and their executives and misconduct by registrants and gatekeepers.”
– U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
How Does ECMNOW! Help With SEC Rule 17 Compliance?
Intelligently Manage Data
Are you manually processing records for retention and compliance? ECMNOW! utilizes our patented AI engine, PaperVision Forms Magic Technology, in order to streamline business processes, eliminating expensive and time-consuming human errors, and improving the accuracy and security of your records while also saving your organization money and countless workforce hours.
Quickly Locate Information
Are your records searchable? Rule 17a-4 requires searchable index values and readily retrievable documents. ECMNOW! has powerful search functions that allow you to locate information in seconds. Speed up requests and get control of your data by electronically organizing, controlling, and intelligently routing documents, no matter the location or department.
Easily Maintain Audit Trails
How are you storing your data? Rule 17ad-7 includes expectations for how data must be stored and requires the validation of quality and accuracy of both the storage system and process. PaperVision Enterprise and ImageSilo can implement audit tracking while preserving data integrity, allowing you greater visibility into version control and user access.
Ensure Compliance
Do you know who has access to your data? Manage and restrict data access with ImageSilo and PaperVision Enterprise, which has multiple layers of security. Administrators can lock down private data in compliance with SEC Rule 17 and a wide variety of other regulations while intelligently automating document retention and destruction policies to simplify records storage.
Reduce Operating Costs
Are you wasting money on records storage and maintenance costs? SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4 mandate specific electronic records must be indexed and preserved in a location where they cannot be erased or changed, which can be expensive. ECMNOW! accommodates virtually any type of storage media and supplies comprehensive document capture and management capabilities, saving you time and money.
Integrate Seamlessly
Do you work with data in multiple locations or systems? Combine systems to simplify records management with ECMNOW!, which comes with easy to use point-and-click integrations. Make it easy to share information with your other line-of-business applications while improving the efficiency of the whole organization with ECMNOW!.
“ImageSilo has made a phenomenal difference in our compliance. We decreased audit preparation time by 88%, which has made compliance a breeze. Preparing for audit checks takes a few hours instead of three days.”
– Fran Eppy, Director of Operations, Eppy Financial Group
We want to show you how Microtek’s over 50 years of experience can help you and your organization get your data compliant under SEC Rule 17 and keep it that way. Plus all of our work is guaranteed!
If you have any questions, would like any additional information, or would like a free and no obligation consultation and estimate, please don’t hesitate to call us at 314-872-3322 or 800-264-2808 and ask for Aaron Liess or Mark Sandheinrich, or email us at sales@microtekstl.com. Thanks!
