(Editor’s note: Actiance, a communications compliance, archiving, and analytics vendor, has just announced that it is working with Relativity, maker of eDiscovery offerings, on a way to integrate Actiance’s cloud-based content store Alcatraz with the Relativity platform, officials say. The integration to come will enable the companies to “export electronically stored information (ESI) from more… Read More >>
Credit Suisse Asset Management Group Sells Off Actiance Investment
Sale is Key to the Merging of Actiance and Smarsh Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors group reported on Nov. 30 that it has exited its investment in Actiance, a communications and social media compliance, archiving, and analytics vendor, via a sale to K1 Investment Management, a U.S. private equity firm that invests in enterprise… Read More >>
Actiance & Smarsh to Become One Company
Rival providers of social media compliance for financial services, Smarsh and Actiance, will become one company via private equity firm K1 Investment Management, which has just announced that it is acquiring Actiance. If authorities approve the combination, the new company will serve “more than 6,500 financial services firms ─ including the top 15 global banks… Read More >>
Regulators Catch Up to Social Media Usage
(Editor’s note: Digital compliance, archiving, and analytics vendor, Actiance, recently signed a global partnership with Hootsuite, a social media management platform provider. The partnership will combine Hootsuite’s platform with Actiance’s Socialite offering for compliance across public social networks, and Actiance’s Alcatraz, a context-aware, cloud-based archive. A key aspect of the collaboration is the growing list… Read More >>
Actiance & Hootsuite Sign Social Media Compliance Pact
Vendors to Target Global Compliance for Social Media Actiance, a digital compliance, archiving, and analytics vendor, has signed a global partnership with Hootsuite, a social media management platform provider, to offer a comprehensive compliance solution for financial services firms. The partnership will combine Hootsuite’s platform with Actiance’s Socialite offering for compliance across public social… Read More >>
Time to Ramp Up Social Media Risk Management?
Financial services firms may want to up their social media compliance training say industry experts reacting to the news that a federal grand jury in San Francisco and the SEC are charging James Alan Craig, who lives in Scotland, with securities fraud via an alleged scheme involving Twitter accounts and damaging messages. In fact, to… Read More >>
Follow Your Passion & Keep Your Day Job: Q&A
(While working on online educational programs for the securities industry, Joanna Belbey got the bug for filmmaking. She was running a financial services compliance training company for several years before her current role as a social media and compliance specialist for Actiance, a solutions provider that offers a platform to manage social media channels. Belbey… Read More >>
A Compliance Speed Bump in an Era of ‘Social Selling’
LinkedIn, a social media site for business interactions, is hoping to take “social selling” to the next level via an upgrade of Sales Navigator to a software-as-a-service (SasS), enterprise-wide offering. Anticipating demand for Sales Navigator, social media compliance provider Hearsay Social is developing capabilities to help its financial services clients use the sales tool and… Read More >>
LGIM Signs On for Misys Sophis Platform as Actiance Launches Alcatraz
Legal & General Investment Management to Deploy Misys Platform London-based investment manager Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) will be deploying the fixed income portfolio and risk management platform Misys Sophis VALUE to govern its fixed income trading and liability-driven investment (LDI) businesses, say officials from the firm and Misys. The firm is using the… Read More >>
Taking Social Media to the Next Level
Direxion Funds, a registered provider of mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs), is becoming more sophisticated about social media to reap more benefits from a phenomenon impossible to ignore. “It’s like someone walking up to you at a cocktail party and saying, ‘Hi, I’ve admired you from afar and I’d like to talk to… Read More >>
