How can an integrated compliance platform deliver real-time trading oversight?

Rising regulatory scrutiny and evolving compliance requirements make real-time, integrated pre-trade and post-trade controls essential for capital markets firms. Without efficient, automated frameworks, operational risks rise and costly fines become more likely. FIS® Capital Markets Compliance Suite automates processes and embeds controls into trading workflows, streamlining compliance management to reduce risks, improve efficiency and ensure adherence to global regulations.

What are the benefits of an end-to-end regulatory compliance platform?

Capital Markets Compliance Suite combines surveillance, reporting and risk controls into a single, modular platform covering the entire compliance lifecycle. By streamlining pre-trade and post-trade risk, market abuse and anti-fraud oversight, and communications, it helps transform compliance decisioning from a regulatory burden into a strategic advantage.

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Turning regulatory complexity into competitive advantage

Tightening regulatory rules across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific, combined with manual processes and fragmented reporting, strain operational efficiency and risk management. Capital Markets Compliance Suite delivers greater visibility into compliance risk factors while enhancing efficiency and regulatory transparency for more confident, strategic decisions.

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Scalable decisioning

Manage regulatory decisions at scale through real-time automation of complex global rules, reducing manual effort while strengthening accuracy and control.

End-to-end compliance

Ensure adherence at every stage of the trading lifecycle, from client readiness to trade validation, with continuous monitoring and automated controls.

Optimized oversight

Strengthen governance by automating internal policies and trading controls, improving enterprisewide risk management and delivering greater transparency.

Simplified reporting

Deliver precise, submission-ready trade, transaction and position reports while efficiently reconciling gaps to support cross-border compliance across asset classes and jurisdictions.

How can scalable compliance infrastructure support global regulatory requirements?

Enabling the real-time application of regulations to complex transactions, FIS® Capital Markets Compliance Suite delivers comprehensive trading and employee compliance, surveillance, pre-trade and post-trade controls, and end-to-end audit trails, with additional integrated tools for AML/KYC lifecycle management and FATCA/CRS adherence.
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Compliance Reporting

How can centralized compliance reporting reduce regulatory risk?

FIS® Compliance Reporting helps mitigate reputational and regulatory risk while supporting compliance with Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) rules and increasing transparency. It efficiently collects, normalizes, validates, transmits and maintains reportable events in one central forensics repository. Compliance Reporting gives you a single point of entry for submitting your U.S. equities and options data in eligible securities to FINRA CAT for processing. With access to the same data that regulators use, you can detect and fix errors prior to CAT submission and ensure proactive compliance.

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Employee Compliance

How can firms automate employee compliance monitoring and issue detection?

FIS® Employee Compliance is a comprehensive browser-based application solution that automates conflicts of interest management and code of ethics administration. Conflict of interest and code of ethics issues arise from several factors, including employee personal trading, outside business activities, private securities transactions, gifts and entertainment, research activities, deals and engagements, and others. Employee Compliance functionality focuses on automated identification of issues, workflow flexibility to support firm processes and extensive reporting that caters to actions such as management reporting or dashboards and regulator requests.

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ETD Reporting

How can technology improve financial trade reporting accuracy and compliance?

FIS® ETD Reporting (formerly Droit) automates validation and eligibility checks, helping firms achieve accurate, compliant financial trade reporting. It delivers transparent, high-performance regulatory reporting by identifying real-time obligations, validating accuracy against regulatory and trade repository standards, and tracing decisions back to source regulation text. ETD Reporting also supports efficient, audit-ready operations at scale through APIs, comprehensive dashboards and auditable decision reports to help reduce errors, remediation effort and regulatory risk.

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Data and policy references

Market Surveillance

How can market surveillance technology strengthen trading integrity?

FIS® Market Surveillance supports compliance organizations' surveillance for market integrity issues involving potential insider trading and market manipulation, such as wash sales, spoofing and layering across asset classes and all firm, portfolio, trader, algo and client trading. Market Surveillance provides a rich rules library that is updated in step with evolving regulation, rich analytical tools, case management and an audit trail of all analysis and investigations, easing the burden of audits. It combines the benefits of a comprehensive, off-the-shelf solution with the flexibility of a custom-built solution. Compliance users who are closest to the issues can fine-tune the application to meet their changing needs.

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Market abuse detection
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Pre-Trade Compliance

How can pre-trade compliance controls enforce regulatory trading mandates?

FIS® Pre-Trade Compliance (formerly Droit) embeds compliance directly into the trading workflow through API-first automation to help ensure every trading decision is clearly evidenced against internal policy and regulatory text. The platform aggregates checks across KYC setup and refresh, legal documentation, credit lines, account setup, “do not trade” lists and sanctions, delivering ready-to-trade decisions to salespeople while enforcing granular trade mandates and cross-border booking rules with configurable hard and soft blocks.

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Cross-border booking controls

Supervision Compliance

How can firms detect and manage high-risk broker behavior?

FIS® Supervision Compliance helps mitigate reputational, internal and regulatory risk stemming from sales practices issues and potential fraud pertaining to high-risk and recidivist brokers, abuse of senior investors, anti-money laundering, product suitability mismatches, overconcentration and excessive or short-term trading in long-term products. The solution helps you identify questionable transactions and high-risk positions, streamline review processes, support audits and respond to regulatory and internal audit inquiries quickly. Supervision Compliance also helps position the firm to be able to address future obligations such as the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule.

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Trade & Transaction Reporting

How can firms identify and manage complex regulatory reporting obligations?

FIS® Trade Transaction Reporting (formerly Droit) streamlines real-time tracking and accurate reporting of compliant trades while supporting primary submissions and post-trade quality checks. The platform delivers high-quality decisions by combining regulatory horizon scanning with input from leading financial institutions while scaling to process millions of on-demand or batch transactions daily. Each decision is backed by an audit record detailing a clear, comprehensive decision path, and firms can rerun past decisions to gain a retrospective view.

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Trading Compliance Manager

How can compliance teams gain a comprehensive view of the trading order lifecycle?

FIS® Trading Compliance Manager is a multi-asset class platform that delivers trade surveillance, regulatory reporting and supervisory controls. The platform offers a single user interface and unified data model, deployed on Snowflake and Amazon Web Services. With comprehensive BI visualization and reporting, Trade Compliance Manager integrates transaction data, news data and market actions data to provide a holistic view of trading activities while its architecture enables real-time alerts, predicted analytics and unified rules for market manipulation and trade surveillance.

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FAQ

What is a compliance suite and what challenges does it solve for financial institutions?

A compliance suite is an integrated platform that helps financial institutions manage regulatory obligations across areas such as trade surveillance, communications monitoring and anti-money laundering. It centralizes data, automates oversight and provides real-time visibility into potential risk. This allows compliance teams to detect suspicious activity earlier, streamline investigations and maintain consistent governance while reducing manual processes and operational complexity.

How can compliance technology help firms keep pace with changing regulations?

Modern compliance technology uses advanced analytics, machine learning and configurable rules to monitor activity against current regulations and internal policies. Automated alerts, detailed audit trails and supervisory workflows make it easier to identify potential violations, investigate them quickly and demonstrate proactive oversight to regulators. This approach improves agility, supports faster policy updates and reduces the burden of adapting to new or evolving regulatory requirements.

What are the business benefits of implementing an integrated compliance platform?

An integrated compliance platform helps reduce the risk of fines, enforcement actions and reputational damage by strengthening monitoring and reporting processes. It lowers the total cost of compliance through automation, improves transparency for stakeholders and enables better decision-making with centralized, high-quality data. A scalable, modular architecture also allows organizations to expand capabilities as regulatory complexity and transaction volumes grow without adding disconnected systems.

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Learn more about how FIS empowers financial institutions to support compliance across global jurisdictions and make money work harder with cutting-edge technology.

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Get a brief overview of our Capital Markets Compliance Suite.

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