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Why Surveillance is Still Exciting - Looking back at a Decade

As 2024 wraps up, VoxSmart reflects on over a decade of redefining surveillance, evolving it from a compliance necessity to a powerful commercial tool. At the recent XLod conference in London, the spotlight was on surveillance’s growing role in efficiency and revenue generation, particularly with real-time voice transcription. This technology now helps banks track client interactions, missed opportunities, and mitigate risks, offering insights that drive revenue and trust. With the market finally catching up, VoxSmart is poised to lead this shift, making surveillance a key driver of success in modern finance.
Oliver Blower
November 18, 2024
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WhatsApp update could spell unhappy New Year for compliance teams

While many of us will be making tough lifestyle changes this January, from adopting strict fitness regimes to cutting down on calories, there are other changes afoot in the realm of WhatsApp that could impact many of us over the coming days. For regulatory compliance teams at financial institutions worldwide, these could spell an unhappy start to the new year if precautions are not taken.
Oliver Blower
January 11, 2024
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Looking back to look forward 2023: WhatsApp, AI, and a familiar foe

The dramatic rise of AI intrigued financial markets, the fallout of 2022’s sweep of WhatsApp fines for the major banks continued to spill over, and spoofing continued to make headlines throughout the year. In this blog we take a look at just some of the key news stories which rocked financial markets and regulated industries over the last 12 months.
VoxSmart
December 20, 2023
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Safety proofing against spoofing – using trade reconstruction technology as an extra layer of armour

Last week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) fined BofA Securities $24 million for more than 700 – yes 700 - instances of spoofing through two former traders, over a period of 8 years.
VoxSmart
December 12, 2023
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What to do about WhatsApp misuse? The answer isn’t sacking

The recent sacking of Goldman Sachs' global head of transaction banking services, Hari Moorthy, once again spotlights a complex dilemma facing banking compliance professionals across the world: what to do about WhatsApp?
VoxSmart
December 6, 2023
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