Is your firm ready for the change in Regulation BI (Best Interest)?

In June 2019 the United States SEC put forth changes in the way broker dealers and investment advisors deal with their customers, creating a fiduciary responsibility, and clear reporting of how your firm might be earning money from services and products provided to your clients.  These changes, while good for consumers, have created a regulatory burden on the industry to update policies and procedures, as well as formulating new ways to disclose your firm’s relationships with vendors and investment products.

The new regulation requires registered broker dealers and investment advisors to provide retail investors with easy to understand information about the confines of their relationship with your firm, ensuring potential clients can clearly see the differences between firm conflicts, fees, and other determining factors.  This has led to the creation of the CRS relationship summary form, as well as several other less formal processes all firms in the space must comply with.

While the rule changes happened in June 2019, the SEC gave the industry until June 30, 2020 to conform to the new requirements. It is generally recognized that all broker dealers and investment advisors will need to make changes to their operations, mandatory disclosures, marketing materials, and any system used for compliance.

If your firm is currently utilizing Excel, Word, and PDF documents to create your Policy Manual, it’s time to upgrade to a system that can help with the Reg BI changes and all your policy and risk management needs.  StrunkAccess provides an easy to use Policy Automation tool, allowing your firm the flexibility to find, and organize your policies in a logical way; helping to ensure compliance within your company.  Contact us today to find out more about how we can help your company achieve compliance for your regulatory needs.