Editor’s Note: We are pleased to share a blog post recently written by Amy McIlwain of Financial Social Media. Today Financial Social Media is thriving as a compliant provider for Social Media Education to Financial Advisors, Insurance Agents & Financial Service Agents. What a year for financial advisors and social media! From Twitter fights to [...]
Based on its investigation of a Netflix communication made by CEO Reed Hastings on his personal Facebook page, in April 2013 the SEC issued a Report of Investigation making it clear that companies may utilize social media outlets to announce key information in compliance with Regulation FD as long as access to the outlet is not restrictive and investors have been alerted about which social media outlets will be used to disseminate such information.
Editor’s Note: The article below is an updated version of the original document written by Joe Polidoro and Marketeria in 2010. As social media continues to evolve, so do our tips for social media compliance and engagement in financial services. More and more RIAs are successfully marketing themselves on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. [...]
RegEd’s Blane Warrene recently sat with Samantha Allen, Financial Planning Magazine’s digital editor, to discuss social media compliance’s evolution as well as best practices for financial institutions and financial advisors. See the discussion and video conversation here.
For the financial advisors already communicating with customers on social media, Tuesday’s big announcement from the SEC encourages them to take their social media engagement up a notch. Finally ending the investigation surrounding Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his use of Facebook to announce disclosed corporate information, the SEC decided not to [...]
Raleigh, Jan. 15, 2013 — RegEd, the leader of compliance technology in the financial services industry, announced today two major features, the social media content library and multiple-lexicons, as part of their Social Media Archiving and Surveillance solution, powered by Arkovi. These features continue a series of major releases on RegEd’s social media archiving, compliance [...]
