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AdvisorVault Adds Social Media Archiving to its Consolidated 17a-4 D3P Service

Our Consolidated D3P is a unique turn-key solution for firms meeting compliance now includes social media archiving. […]

By |2026-05-31T20:28:10+00:00May 14th, 2026|17a-4 Compliance, Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Case Studies on AdvisorVault & Compliant Workspace – The Only FINRA 17a-4 D3P Bundling Microsoft 365 Into their Service

Compliant Workspace Case Studies:   Noticing our smaller customers were […]

By |2026-05-14T23:41:33+00:00February 15th, 2025|17a-4 Compliance, Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Let’s Party! AdvisorVault’s Now A Managed 365 Cloud Provider Able To Get FINRA Firms 17a-4 Compliant On The Microsoft Cloud

Time to party. AdvisorVault’s 17a-4 Managed 365 Service gets […]

By |2026-05-14T23:42:32+00:00August 27th, 2024|Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Finally, FINRA’s Happy – AdvisorVault Now Makes Amazon 17a-4 Compliant

FINRA firms, especially broker-dealers want to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store trade & transaction data for their business applications, but there's no clear answers if it’ll meet the long-term retention demands of 17a-4 and firms are afraid to take advantage of it. However, AdvisorVault has solved the problem with fours steps to [...]

By |2024-09-25T21:21:43+00:00June 2nd, 2024|17a-4 Compliance, Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Adding FINRA’s Custodian Feature Is A Walk In The Park For AdvisorVault

AdvisorVault now includes the custodian feature with its Consolidated FINRA D3P (designated third party) service: giving added protection for our withdrawing firms, but essentially adding the Custodian for customers was a walk in the park - I talk about it in this blog. One 17a-4 Provider for Small FINRA Firms   I’ve [...]

By |2025-02-15T23:15:16+00:00May 13th, 2024|17a-4 Compliance, Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Me & My Tech Guru Talk About FINRA’s New Audit Trail Option

FINRA changed rule 17a-4 last year, adding an audit trail option (supposedly attempting to ease the pain of WORM disk). I honestly don’t know how an audit trail will help my customers meet data compliance, so I decided to setup a lunch with my tech guru last week to pick his brain - I [...]

By |2024-10-07T17:43:19+00:00November 4th, 2023|Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

Are FINRA’s New Compliance Rules Keeping You Up At Night?

Being up to date with regulatory changes is a major challenge when you're operating under the jurisdiction of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Especially trying to comply with their constantly evolving requirements - take the recent updates to rule 17a-4 for example; they present significant challenges for small broker-dealer firms with limited I.T. [...]

Ride The New Wave In 17a-4 Compliance With AdvisorVault & Compliant Workspace

It is not often that you hear the word “exciting” next to “Electronic data archiving” or “Broker-Dealer compliance”. Yet with the announcement of our new company partnership between AdvisorVault & Compliant Workspace, it is safe to say that the data compliance industry is being revolutionized for broker-dealers & FINRA compliant firms around the globe. You [...]

By |2024-01-16T22:20:49+00:00February 24th, 2023|Microsoft 365 Compliance|0 Comments

Don’t Hop In Bed With The Wrong Data Compliance Experts!

I’ve noticed lots of confusion these days about data compliance, I don’t know whose fault it is – could be the regulators, or the compliance officers, could be the consultants; I suspect it’s the big IT vendors trying to up-sell us (you know who I'm talking about) but the problem is no one is coming [...]

By |2024-01-16T22:21:32+00:00January 11th, 2023|17a-4 Compliance, Data Archiving for FINRA|0 Comments

We’ll have you Grinning Ear to Ear With Our Direct 17a-4 Cloud Plug-in

AdvisorVault's 17a-4 Cloud Backup Plug-in will make you purr like a kitten; it’s a game changer when you need to be compliant on the cloud, I am talking about Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 (the only two real options firms today). I mean, at the end of the day, moving your company to the [...]

By |2024-01-16T22:23:42+00:00January 9th, 2023|17a-4 Compliance|0 Comments
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