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BRACS Non-Cash Compensation

Online recordkeeping, validation, and approval workflow solution to support your firm with regulatory compliance.


FINRA’s non-cash compensation rules continue to be in the spotlight and are included in FINRA’s 2021 Examination Report (“Report”). Reg BI’s Conflict of Interest Obligation, also highlighted in the Report, requires broker-dealers, wealth managers and firms to adopt new and strengthen existing policies and procedures to identify and mitigate risks related to potential non-cash compensation conflicts. FINRA’s non-cash compensation rules and applicable requirements of Reg BI’s Conflict of Interest Obligation must be consistent.

Broadridge’s Non-Cash Compensation (NCC) solution provides scalable, online recordkeeping, validation, and approval workflows to track multiple NCC activities, events and fees related to:

  • Conferences and Seminars
  • Training Courses
  • Trade Shows
  • Gifts
  • Travel and Lodging
  • Meals and Entertainment
  • Promotional items

NCC Dashboard

Broadridge’s Non-Cash Compensation solution offers the following features:

  • User-friendly, intuitive desktop/mobile user interface
  • Configuration controls that enable your firm to easily define monthly and annual allowances for NCC thresholds
  • Advisors can easily enter NCC event details for review and approval by management
  • Multiple layers of management review can be defined for your firm’s approval process
  • Workflow approvals & rejections configured based upon various event attributes
  • Threshold comparison alerts provided when advisors exceed firm-defined parameters
  • Role-specific Dashboards
  • Detailed Excel reporting capabilities by Activity/Event, Advisor, NCC Category or Vendor 

Asset Managers Portal

Over 200 Asset Managers have consented to submit quarterly NCC Activity files to Broadridge, to be utilized for reconciliation within the Non-Cash Compensation solution.

Asset Managers Portal

Asset Managers upload a reconciliation file into NCC, validating amounts they have applied to each advisor.  NCC matches these items to entries pre-approved in the system and creates exception reporting based upon your firm’s configured thresholds as needed for additional review.

If you would like to learn more about how Broadridge’s Non-Cash Compensation solution can improve your firms record keeping of NCC activities and events, contact your Broadridge Account Manager or visit A Digital Non-Cash Compensation Portal for The Age of Reg BI.

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