Verify, control and govern your SMF processes. Back your compliance oversight by evidence, not assumption.
Whether your accountability includes SMCR, SYSC, financial promotions, product governance or regulated customer communications, Objective Keystone provides the system and controls to manage your compliance oversight obligations with confidence.
A purpose-built cloud solution brings document drafting, review, approval, evidence management, senior manager attestation and publishing in one end-to-end platform.
Common clauses, risk statements, disclosures, disclaimers, product wording, fee tables and policy references can be verified and maintained in a governed content library. Changes are cascaded through relevant documents, reducing inconsistency and human error while strengthening compliance oversight.
Everyone works from a single source of truth, removing the risk of multiple versions or overlooked edits. Built-in audit trails track every update and versioning.
No matter who’s updating your content, publishing templates automatically apply your approved design and style. Eliminate manual reformatting and save valuable time. AI Readability Assessment ensures content is always clear, accessible, and compliant.
Objective Keystone Data Models enables data to be extracted and synchronised from core business systems via our connectors and API, or from Excel. It is then transformed into the required values and formats under full governance. Every change is versioned, tracked, and auditable, ensuring confidence in the data used across your documents and reports.
Integrate complex compliance datasets with regulatory certainty under the SM&CR responsibilities. Relationship-based data modelling and Excel formula reading enable calculated fields and derived values to be governed and traceable.
Dynamic Data Preview allows datasets to be inserted directly into documents and viewed live during editing, review and verification. This gives teams clear visibility of how data will appear before publication, without needing to publish the entire document.
Generate Compliance Statements and Senior Manager Attestations that record final approvals, evidence points and review notes. Accountable individuals can digitally attest to the content they have reviewed, with traceable proof of when approval was given to which content.
Every edit, review, comment, approval and data update is captured in a comprehensive audit record. Decisions can be traced back to individuals, giving compliance teams a defensible record of who did what and when.
When content changes after approval, safeguards alert the SMF that reverification is required. Republish with confidence that the final output reflects the approved content and that the supporting record is intact.
One central distribution of your on-brand content. Instantly publish finalised content to Web PDF, Print PDF, HTML, or iXBRL. Distribute to your communications and corporate systems via our integrations, or host them for third-party data aggregators, eligible institutions and regulators to access.
You're in control of last-minute changes. Republish instantly without an internal or external typesetter, graphic designer or publisher.
Images, typography, formatting, fonts and colours are always market-ready. Publish limitless outputs on brand with a click of a button.
Reusable content improves productivity and reduces inconsistencies across regulated documents.
Section-level approvals ensure the right subject matter experts, legal reviewers, compliance stakeholders and accountable executives review the right content.
Produce Compliance Statements and Senior Manager Attestations showing exactly who approved what, when and with what supporting evidence.
Generate branded, print-ready and web-ready outputs from approved content in seconds without a graphic designer or typesetter.
Built-in governance records every edit, review, comment and approval in a complete audit trail.
Dashboards show where each document sits in the review cycle, helping SMF16 teams identify bottlenecks, outstanding approvals and upcoming deadlines.
SMF16 is the Senior Management Function for Compliance Oversight under the UK Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR). The SMF16 holder is responsible for overseeing the firm’s compliance arrangements and ensuring regulatory obligations are effectively managed and evidenced.
Objective Keystone provides governance to drafting, reviewing, approving and publishing regulated content. Every action is captured in a complete audit trail, helping SMF16 accountable executives evidence oversight activity, approvals and attestations.
Yes. The platform records edits, comments, approvals, version history and published outputs in a full system of record. Compliance Statements and Senior Manager Attestations can be generated to support audits, board reviews and regulatory requests.
Approvals can be managed at document or section level, ensuring the right compliance, legal, risk and business stakeholders review relevant content before publication. Workflows can be configured to reflect internal governance processes.
Yes. Internal and external contributors can work within Objective Keystone with role-based permissions, ensuring sensitive content is only accessible to authorised users.
Yes. By centralising drafting, review, approvals and publishing, organisations reduce the risk of version confusion, missing approvals, inconsistent disclosures and undocumented and unverified changes.
Objective Keystone can support a wide range of regulated and governance-driven documents, including policies, procedures, customer communications, financial promotions, product disclosures, board papers, compliance reports and regulatory submissions.
Yes. Verified wording, clauses, disclosures and policy statements can be maintained in a content library and reused across multiple documents to improve consistency and reduce duplication.
Approved content can be published instantly Web PDF, Print PDF, HTML, or iXBRL. This significantly reduces manual formatting and publishing delays.
Yes. Objective Keystone is designed for organisations operating in highly regulated environments where governance, accountability, auditability and controlled publishing are essential.
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