SMCR in the United Kingdom
Star’s dedicated IAR solution was designed to help in-scope FIs establish and maintain a Senior Manager’s Regime and adapt to changes in regulation as they occur.
Compliance No Longer Needs To Be Complex
Be certain you’re complying with the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) guidance on the Senior Manager & Certification Regime (SMCR) with a solution that’s designed to meet the United Kingdom’s regulations and any future guidance.
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On-Demand Configurability
Extensive workflows are highly configurable, powered by conditional logic.
Multi-Jurisdictional
Tailor time zone, currency, language, and more for global employees.
Intuitive UX
Drive employee adoption with ease and simplify employee access via standard authentication and/or single sign-on.
Actionable Intelligence
Quickly and easily get real-time analytics through customizable dashboards and reports.
Multi-Layered Protection
Safeguard sensitive data with multi-layered access rights based on division, department, role, location, and more.
Future-Ready Architecture
Gain a 360-degree view of your employee compliance anywhere with scalable, cloud-ready software and integrations with Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI.
Establish and Maintain a Senior Manager Regime
- Manage Responsibilities Maps & Statements of Responsibilities across the organization.
- Complete versioning control of Maps and key documentation.
- Provide an easy way for Senior Managers to document Reasonable Steps.
- Take control of the handover process.
- Fully auditable.
Fitness & Propriety Workflows for Certification Employees
Gain control of all aspects of the certification process – with compliance technology that makes it easy for your employees.
- Manage the entire Certification process – from identifying Certified individuals and assigning activities to personal development and supervision.
- Perform annual and ad-hoc fitness and propriety assessments using both long and short forms with sign-off and automated escalation built-in.
- Automatically produce and store Certificates that comply with records and renewal tracking rules.
- Use robust, transparent dashboard reporting to gain insights into individual and firm-wide results.
Manage Conduct Rules Attestation
Raise awareness of employee conduct issues across your firm and expand individual accountability. Fostering a culture of strong values and ethical behaviour is what builds respected, reputable businesses.
- Implement annual declaration workflows and store declarations for good record-keeping.
- Record and manage breaches and regulatory reporting.
- Improve the accuracy and efficiency of regulatory reporting.
- Record role-specific training.
Manage FCA Directory Persons Data
Make it easy to support the regular submission and maintenance of up-to-date data for FCA Directory Persons, providing a place to gather and store data, as well as ensuring changes and updates are applied on time and consistently.
- Extraction of Directory data into the exact format of FCA Multi-Submission and Bulk-Amend templates.
- Maintenance of Directory Persons and their data updates.
- New Directory screens to store relevant data.
- Ability to review, amend and confirm Directory data is accurate.
- System workflow support for movers, joiners, leavers and changes.
- Assurance that new Directory obligations are being met in full.
- Oversight of all processes to ensure effectiveness, with robust record-keeping.
Employee Conflicts of Interest
Protect your employees and reduce risk with a suite of solutions designed to address a range of issues.
Ensure employee personal trading and investments comply with all regulatory requirements and company policies.
Comprehensive pre-clearance and post-trade monitoring across 130+ exchanges and 30+ blockchains.
Simplify the declaration of employee private investments with outside organizations.
Automatically pre-clear client gifts or entertainment to prevent breaches of anti-bribery and corruption regulations.
Avoid regulatory compliance breaches arising from employee external business activities.
Safeguard your business from conflicts of interest arising from political alignments or associations among employees worldwide.
Actively manage employee trading in the context of current market activity and news events to protect your company’s reputation.
Incident & Policy Management
Streamline HR and compliance processes by providing employees with clear, accessible policies and a safe space to report incidents.
Provide employees with multiple methods for reporting concerns while streamlining incident collection, management, and resolution.
Support 65+ languages for ease of reporting, no matter where employees reside.
MNPI & Enterprise Conflicts
Centralize deal data and identify business and employee conflicts
Star’s Compliance Control Room lets you organize and manage your most important inside information data flows and conduct conflict searches with ease—all from a single platform.
Star provides a one-stop shop for managing MNPI, wall crossings, insider lists, restricted lists, and more. Interested in automation and time savings?
Around the globe, investment banks are using the STAR Platform to spot enterprise conflicts, manage wall crossings, monitor deal teams, and more. Interested in streamlining workflows and improving transparency?
Accountability & Competency
Comply with global accountability regimes by fortifying employee accountability, training, and competency.
Strengthen your employees’ individual accountability and effectively demonstrate compliance to regulators, all with complete traceability.
Develop a culture of compliance, drive firm-wide adoption, and protect your firm’s reputation with a solution that builds trust and certainty.
License & Registration
Take advantage of centralized monitoring and easy integration with FINRA and other regulators.
Manage your License and Registration workflows with confidence
Compliance Teams
Providing a single, user-friendly system to monitor and manage employee activity and behavior.
Human Resources
Empowering executives, HR representatives, and compliance managers to uphold best practices and mitigate risk.
Technology Teams
Supporting IT teams with easy implementation and seamless migration.