How Automated Communications Monitoring Works Across Messaging and Voice
Not every alert proves misconduct. Our guide shows how automated monitoring turns messaging and voice into contextual data that lets compliance teams investigate only the communications that carry real risk.
SEC and FINRA Communications Recordkeeping: What Technology Does Your Firm Need?
Regulators have spent five years cracking down on broker-dealer communications recordkeeping, but for compliance teams the real challenge is choosing and operationalizing the right technology. Our new guide offers a ten-step vendor checklist, a channel-by-channel overview and the key questions to ask before you commit.
Complete Channel Coverage in 2027: A practical guide for compliance, risk, and IT teams
Off-channel communications aren't a solved problem. The FCA found that 41% of identified breaches at wholesale banks involved directors or senior managers. Our guide explains why channel capture beats bans, where AI tools create new recordkeeping risk, and what to ask your vendor.
How to meet expanded non-financial misconduct rules: A practical guide
Download Global Relay’s practical non-financial misconduct guide for non-bank firms. Explore the FCA’s expanded rules, key compliance obligations, and how communications capture, surveillance, archiving, and investigation tools can help your firm build a defensible NFM control framework.
Operational resilience in the Nordics: Reducing third-party and cloud concentration risk
Recent cloud outages uncover a hard truth: single points of failure can bring critical systems to a halt. How can firms in the Nordics boost operational resilience?
Finfluencers in Sweden: What the new regulatory landscape means for financial firms
Financial influencers, or ‘finfluencers’, have quietly become one of the most influential distribution channels in Sweden - more than one in five young adults trust financial information from finfluencers in the region. We explore the emerging risks.
Explainable AI in surveillance: Model governance, testing, and the new “prove it works” standard
The FCA received 3,806 STORs in 2025 and found real weaknesses in how firms govern the models meant to catch that risk. This guide covers what explainable AI in surveillance means, the governance lifecycle regulators expect, and how firms evidence it.
Off-channel communications: What they are, why they’re still a compliance risk, and how to manage them
Off-channel communications are business messages sent on channels a firm can't capture, retain, or supervise. Here's what the SEC, FINRA, and FCA require, why bans don't work, and how firms bring conversations back on the record.
Checklist: 10 steps to help you meet the FCA’s NFM-rule
With the FCA’s September 2026 NFM deadline looming, we’ve created a 10-step checklist to help FSMA-authorized firms prepare - covering policy, HR, surveillance, training, and regulatory notification requirements
Weak links in the chain: A compliance guide to third-party risk
Learn how to spot third-party risk red flags early, from unestablished vendors to multi-vendor security gaps, and stay ahead of FCA, DORA, and SEC rules.
Now you see it, now you don’t – Why ephemeral messaging capture remains critical for compliance
Regulators like the SEC, CFTC, and DOJ continue to expect firms to maintain proactive compliance programs that support investigations and protect against fraud, which includes managing the use of disappearing messages. We explore the compliance implications of ephemeral messaging and outline practical steps to mitigate risk and meet regulatory obligations.