Using archiving to get a handle on social media compliance

Social media presence drives compliance need

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Are advisers ever off the clock when it comes to social media? Mike Pagani explains why archiving across multiple platforms makes sense for IFA businesses

It's a universal truth that using social media communications can offer financial adviser firms huge business advantages; not least of all in terms of reaching potential new customers and maintaining relationships with existing ones. In fact, the number of firms now actively using social media as one of their standard forms of external communications is on the rise. But how many of these firms who are now embracing social media are also leveraging specialised technologies like archiving to keep the downside of regulatory non-compliance and other related risks from eroding the benefits...

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