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Financial professionals get social, regardless of policy

Financial professionals get social, regardless of policy

A recent survey by financial marketing firm LederMark Communications found that most financial services professionals – 85% of those under age 50; 50% of those who are older – are using social media. And many of them – up to 40% — say it’s helping them build their business. Why? LinkedIn and Facebook, the preferred [...]

Webcast: FINRA Conference Recap on Social Media

Webcast: FINRA Conference Recap on Social Media

Last week FINRA held their Annual Conference in Baltimore. One of the most heavily attended sessions was the discussion on social media and Notice 10-06. Here is how FINRA described the session: “This session addresses supervision of social media, including third-party networks, firm sponsored communities and blogs. Industry panelists discuss FINRA Regulatory Notice 10-06, what [...]

An Up-Close Look at FINRA’s Guidance on Social Media Webinar

Join Socialware, FINRA, BD Week, IA Watch and others this Tuesday for a new webinar: An Up-Close Look at FINRA’s Guidance on Social Media: Practical Tips to Comply Important guidance that FINRA issued this year can affect your firm in a big way when it comes to the use of social networking sites, whether you’re [...]

Center for Due Diligence Interview

In preparation for the CFDD’s New Age Marketing Advisor Conference I did a short interview which you can hear below. // Some of the topics discussed were: – Implications and questions of FINRA Notice 10-06 for financial advisors. – Whether or not financial advisors will get value out of social networks. – How you should [...]

Surprise! Consumers use social networks for financial decisions

Surprise! Consumers use social networks for financial decisions

Spectrem, a financial research firm and consultant, surveyed 500 financial decision-makers in households with $50,000+ in annual income who spend at least two hours a week on the internet. “Two hours” means that this could be anyone from the recent college grad to your grandfather – in short, virtually anyone. The “Social Media and the [...]

FINRA Annual Conference & Socialware/Smarsh Cocktail Party

FINRA Annual Conference & Socialware/Smarsh Cocktail Party

The Socialware team is going to be in attendance at FINRA’s Annual Conference May 26th-May 28th.  Following the release of FINRA’s Notice 10-06, Socialware has been the leading voice for driving compliant adoption of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter in the financial sector. Social Media compliance is a hot issue this year.  We’ve [...]

LinkedIn Compliance Self-Assessment – Are you at Risk?

LinkedIn Compliance Self-Assessment – Are you at Risk?

In the last few months we’ve heard a common refrain from financial industry professionals regarding LinkedIn. Things like: “We aren’t allowed to use social networks but we can use LinkedIn” “Our firm allows us to use LinkedIn but the activity isn’t monitored” “LinkedIn doesn’t fall under Notice 10-06” “We prohibit use, and our employees follow [...]

Smarsh and Socialware Partner

Smarsh and Socialware Partner

We are very excited to announce a new partnership with Smarsh, a managed-service leader in email archiving and compliance solutions. Together with Socialware, Smarsh can now offer an integrated solution for messaging and social media compliance. Some of you reading this may wonder, what does email archiving have to do with social media? As it [...]

Webinar: Social Media, Can Advisors Afford to Miss It?

Much has been discussed in the industry around Financial Advisor’s use of social media. Should they use it? Is it valuable? What are the risks? What are the compliance issues? Can we afford to wait? Join us June 2nd at 11am EST as we participate in an interactive roundtable panel with other industry experts from [...]

Much Ado about Facebook Fan Pages

Much Ado about Facebook Fan Pages

Last week there was a ton of buzz around Facebook’s annual conference, f8. As part of that conference there was quite a bit of news for anyone that manages a Facebook Fan Page. I’ll get into that shortly. Before I do I want to announce the release of Fan Page support for Socialware Sync. Sync [...]