Nasdaq Buy-Side Compliance
provides trade surveillance & global regulatory compliance.
This Solution Helps
- Asset Managers
- Hedge Funds
- Investment Managers
Cross-asset class coverage, protecting firms from manipulative behaviors such as insider trading, market manipulation, and breach of fiduciary duties.
Built specifically for asset managers and hedge funds, Nasdaq Buy-side Compliance is a trade surveillance and case management solution designed to help buy-side firms comply with global regulatory requirements such as Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), MiFID II, Senior Managers Regime, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandates. The award-winning technology uses behavioral science to detect manipulative behaviors such as insider trading, front-running, market manipulation, and more.
Using a behavioral profiling algorithms, Nasdaq Buy-side Compliance automates the testing process by identifying trading patterns outside of individual benchmarks, flagging suspicious or unusual investment and trading activities more accurately and effectively. This reduces the amount of time compliance teams spend on investigating false positives, saving time and improving workflow efficiencies.
- Behavioral and Trading Heatscore that instantly identifies outlying trading patterns against individual benchmarks as well as the company at large, drastically reducing false positives and prioritizing risk alerts.
- Comprehensive reporting to optimize the investigation process with clear, configurable reports for regulatory readiness, and robust case management, with full audit trail, to consolidate data into a centralized stream
- Video replay that aggregates trade transactions, holdings, asset under management, market data, financial news, and other data points to instantly replay trades at the point of activity
Behavioral Analytics
Using behavioral science, Nasdaq Buy-side Compliance analyzes the investment and trading patterns of each portfolio manager and assigns each trade a behavioral heatscore, helping compliance teams quickly identify potentially abusive behaviors.
Each trade is assigned a behavioral heatscore, which compares trading patterns to the ‘normal’ pattern of each portfolio manager, instantly identifying outlying behaviors against individual benchmarks.The behavioral heatscore identifies rogue trading patterns against an individual fingerprint, alerting compliance teams to cases that warrant investigation. By investigating each trade and assigning behaviors a heatscore, compliance officers are able to reduce the amount of time they spend looking into alerts, drastically reducing false positives.
Personal Account Surveillance
Leveraging a price volatility model & pattern recognition algorithms, the additional module compares employee personal trading activity to the market at large to identify trading ahead of significant market events or activities.
- Visibility into employee trading activity
- Efficient identification of suspicious trading
- Ability to demonstrate sophisticated controls to regulators & investors
- Protection of firm against manipulative behavior such as front-running or tailgating scenarios
Why do you need an automated surveillance & compliance solution?
Compliance with Regulatory guidelines
Regulatory bodies have increased scrutiny on buy-side firms including costly fines and use of hi-tech data analytics engine. Have confidence that all regulatory requirements are being met, including MiFID II, MAR, SMR, and SEC mandates with surveillance technology to analyze data and improve regulatory management.
Increase Operational Efficiencies
Significant false positive reduction enables compliance teams to immediately flag and prioritize which alerts pose the most risk and investigate accordingly, saving time, and improving resource allocation.
Investor Confidence
Provide transparency to differentiate, win, and retain clients, whilst lowering operational costs and provide value-add to the investors, instilling greater confidence.
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Nasdaq Buy-side Compliance
Resource Center
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Nasdaq Buy-side Compliance Factsheet
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Behind the Fine: The Downfall of Visium Asset Management
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Top Compliance Trends for the Buy-side
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How to Detect Insider Trading
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Top Three Triggers to Detect Front-Running
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MiFID II Checklist for the Buy-side
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Selecting a Surveillance & Compliance Solution: Buyer's Guide for the Buy-side
