In an Internet Week panel entitled Financial Services & Social Media – Strategies and Tools for Managing Compliance Risk, issues no one wants to addressed were front and center.
If you are in financial services and considering any social media initiatives, this panel would make you run screaming from the room and never want to think of social media again. Bottom line: if you publish in a regulated industry, you are regulated by SEC, FINRA, FDA, etc. You have to understand that the playbook is not yet written regarding social media compliance. There are good practices, not yet best practices. It’s a potential minefield. This session was practically a long list of “don’ts”.
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