Sell-Side Technology Awards 2022: Best sell-side market surveillance product—Nice Actimize

OVERVIEW

Nice Actimize’s Surveil-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance platform provides surveillance coverage with both AI-powered and traditional expert rule-based analytics, and advanced visualization tools, all on a cloud-native platform that enables more accurate and efficient risk detection.

The Surveil-X platform is designed to: 

• Ensure global regulatory coverage for all asset classes and exchange-traded, OTC and crypto currencies
• Enable intent-based detection of market abuse, including cross-market and cross-product analytics
• Provide efficient investigations with intuitive alerts and explainable results, and market visualization enabling quick decisions of potential risks
• Deliver customizable detection models with a self-development analytics toolkit

THE SOLUTION

Nice Actimize Surveil-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance is designed to support unified compliance, supervision and investigation workflows, and behavioral and trade surveillance analytics. Users can supervise, search and review all transactions and communications, creating efficiency while providing comprehensive risk controls.

Surveil-X incorporates ActOne, the case management platform, enabling compliance analysts to review transactional alerts and find related risk surrounding the alerts. An annual subscription fee includes market data feeds from more than 180 exchanges and access to ActOne at no additional cost. Surveil-X can be deployed in a matter of weeks, meeting business and regulatory deadlines. It’s a fully supported and secure solution that can be deployed at locations with limited IT support. 

WHAT’S TO COME

Nice Actimize’s top three product initiatives for the next 12 to 18 months are: 

• Development of a rule authoring tool, tuning, and simulations
• Increasing the number of regulated employee communication modalities able to be captured 
• Expanding the conduct solution set. Anti-money laundering for capital markets will also be introduced.

WHY THEY WON

Nice Actimize wins what has become one of the most competitive categories of all 30 on offer in the annual Sell-Side Technology Awards, thanks to its Surveil-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance platform. The offering allows user firms to supervise, search and review employee transactions and communications from across the enterprise through AI-driven and traditional rule-based analytics in order to comply with global regulations across all asset classes and minimize operational and reputational risk.