Questionnaire: Introduction

Smarsh is conducting a survey on the attitudes and opinions of compliance professionals in the financial services industries regarding the oversight of electronic communications (such as email, instant messaging, social media, etc.).

Your perspective is very important to us. For your qualified participation, Smarsh will make a charitable contribution to your choice of the following four selected children’s organizations:
• Boys Town
• Make-A-Wish Foundation
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• The National Children’s Cancer Society

In addition, you will be the first to receive a complimentary report of the results later this spring, featuring insight and recommendations from your peers in the compliance community.

Be assured that all answers received are completely confidential and anonymous, and will only be analyzed in aggregate. Your honesty and candor is appreciated. The average time to complete this survey is 10-15 minutes.

For the purposes of this survey, "electronic message compliance" refers to the supervision, protection and recordkeeping of electronic communications by an organization, as mandated in regulations such as SEC 204-2, SEC 17a-4, and FINRA 3010.

Thank you for your participation.

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