PORTLAND, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--Smarsh®,
the managed service leader in innovative, secure and reliable email
archiving and compliance solutions, and LIMRA,
which provides research, consulting, and other services to insurance and
financial services companies worldwide, today announced a strategic
partnership. The companies will work together to help LIMRA member firms
meet their electronic message archiving and compliance needs.
“Through this strategic partnership, LIMRA members will have the
technology and support to meet their electronic record-keeping,
supervision and data protection obligations with peace of mind”
Smarsh will serve as the exclusive provider for email,
instant
message, Bloomberg
message and text
message monitoring and archiving, as well as compliant
financial websites, for LL Global Services, parent company of LIMRA
and its affiliates.
"Firms are facing growing archives of email and other forms of
electronic communication, and managing this data – from a compliance
perspective – is complicated and challenging,” said James Kerley,
president of LL Global Services, Inc. “Consistent with our mission to
offer a full range of services to support companies in their strategic
compliance efforts, we are excited to partner with an established
industry leader such as Smarsh, which has a successful track record in
helping financial services and insurance firms successfully navigate
these challenges.”
The Smarsh hosted email and electronic messaging platform enables firms
to capture, preserve, search, monitor and produce all incoming, outgoing
and internal email, instant messages, Bloomberg messages and text
messages, satisfying SEC
and FINRA electronic messaging compliance requirements. Smarsh
Financial Visions offers turnkey and customizable compliant website
production and hosting services for insurance and financial services
companies.
“Through this strategic partnership, LIMRA members will have the
technology and support to meet their electronic record-keeping,
supervision and data protection obligations with peace of mind,” said Stephen
Marsh, Smarsh CEO. “We are thrilled to be chosen by LIMRA and look
forward to working side by side to help its members understand the
issues at stake in managing both the volume of electronic communication
and emerging compliance challenges.”
Smarsh and LIMRA will also team to produce a series of online and live
events aimed at providing ongoing support and insights on relevant
issues and best practices for managing electronic communications
compliance.
About LIMRA
LIMRA is a worldwide research, compliance, consulting and professional
development organization that helps more than 850 insurance and
financial services companies in 73 countries increase their marketing
and distribution effectiveness. Visit LIMRA at www.limra.com.
About Smarsh
Smarsh® provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic
communications, including email, instant messaging and text messaging.
Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps over 10,000 organizations manage and
enforce flexible, secure and cost-effective compliance and records
retention strategies, and mitigate risk. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com
or follow Smarsh at www.twitter.com/SmarshInc.
