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Stay Audit-Ready With a Financial Email Archiving Solution

In financial services, every email, text, and post is a potential exhibit. Regulators expect you to produce any business communication on demand, in a tamper-proof format, years after it was sent. Miss the mark, and you're looking at fines, enforcement actions, and reputational damage that's hard to undo.

A purpose-built financial email archiving solution takes that risk off the table by automatically capturing, securing, and indexing every regulated message.That's what Intradyn does. For more than 15 years, we've helped broker-dealers, advisors, lenders, and banks meet their recordkeeping obligations without the cost and complexity of patchwork systems.

Why Compliance Is So Demanding for Financial Institutions

Financial firms answer to a long list of regulators, each with its own rules:

  • FINRA: Rule 4511 sets a default six-year retention period and requires records be kept in a format compliant with SEC Rule 17a-4
  • SEC: Rule 17a-4 governs how broker-dealers preserve electronic communications
  • FFIEC, FCA, and SOX: Additional oversight of recordkeeping, transparency, and data integrity
  • FDIC: Record retention rules that apply to covered financial companies, including email databases

Since Dodd-Frank arrived in 2010, scrutiny has only intensified. SEC compliant email archiving and FINRA compliant email archiving are no longer optional–they’re table stakes.

What the Rules Require

A quick reality check on the core mandates:

  • Under SEC email archiving requirements, originals of all business communications must be retained for at least three years, with the first two immediately accessible
  • A defensible SEC email retention policy covers internal and external messages: email, IM, and social alike
  • The 2022 amendments to Rule 17a-4 now let firms choose between traditional WORM (write-once, read-many) storage and a complete, time-stamped audit-trail alternative that logs every change
  • Meeting FDIC email retention requirements means storing covered records securely and reproducing them on request

The takeaway: archiving financial data defensibly requires automation, immutability, and fast search. Manual methods can’t deliver any of the three.

Protect Your Firm With the Intradyn Email Archiver

Intradyn's Email Archiver offers a predictable cost structure and the best total cost of ownership on the market, regardless of firm size. With it, you can:

  • Automatically archive every email record in real time
  • Comply with FINRA, SEC, FFIEC, FCA, and SOX regulations
  • Satisfy eDiscovery and FRCP email archiving obligations
  • Redact sensitive information and automate litigation holds across multiple addresses
  • Instantly manage policies, user access, and mail server connections

Works with every major email provider and comes in three deployment options: virtual, cloud-based, and physical hardware.

Take Compliance a Step Further

Social media and text messages are subject to the same regulations as email. Intradyn captures those channels too, securely storing messages, enabling fast search, and applying access controls and legal holds across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), SMS/MMS, and WhatsApp, on BYOD, CYOD, and firm-issued devices.

Ideal for Any Financial Services Organization

Broker-dealers, investment advisors, lenders, and futures and transfer agents all rely on Intradyn to stay compliant with SEC 17a-3 and 17a-4, FINRA Communications Rules, FFIEC, NFA, CFTC, and Fair Lending Laws.

Social Media Archiver
  • Archive for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and more
  • Create automatic, unalterable records of social media messages
  • Digitally sign (256-bit) and time stamp all content
  • Place legal holds on content in case of eDiscovery requests
  • Export social media content in RAW or PDF format
  • Use social media platform APIs to gather data in near real-time
SMS/Text Messaging Archiver
  • Get support for multiple carriers across multiple devices
  • Categorize and index SMS/MMS, WhatsApp and text messages and metadata
  • Produce mobile communications in native and standard non-native format
  • Archive for BYOD, CYOD and employer-issued models
  • Find messages by phone number or content
  • Export complete or partial messages in native or PDF format
  • Use one-click detail drill-down to view metadata
  • Apply legal hold tags in case of eDiscovery requests
  • Customize your solution for your enterprise configuration
Ideal for Any Financial Services Organization
Broker-Dealers
Intradyn is capable of helping FINRA member firms of all sizes remain compliant with SEC 17a-3, 17a-4, FINRA Communications Rules and more.
Investment Advisors
SEC-regulated firms can stay up to code with Intradyn’s automated data capture and custom retention policies.
Lenders
Intradyn’s robust archiving capabilities enable lenders to remain compliant with FFIEC and FTC regulations, as well as Fair Lending Laws.
Futures & Transfer Agents
Firms registered with the National Futures Association can rely on Intradyn’s email archiving services to ensure SEC, NFA and CFTC compliance.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do financial firms need to retain emails?

Generally at least three years under SEC 17a-4 (first two readily accessible), and six years for many records under FINRA Rule 4511.

No. Since the 2022 SEC amendments, firms can use WORM or a compliant audit-trail system. Intradyn supports defensible, tamper-proof retention either way.

Yes. Any business-related communication is subject to retention rules, regardless of the platform it's sent on.

Absolutely. Apply litigation holds, search instantly, and export records in native or PDF format for FRCP requests.

Lock Down Your Compliance Today

See why financial services firms nationwide trust Intradyn as their archiving partner. Contact our team today to request a quote or watch a short demo, and stop worrying about the next records request.

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