Compliance Standards

Avoidance of Insider Trading

Verbatim’s complete policies are available upon request. Among the principles and procedures are the following:

We do not ask questions that we suspect or know to be in violation of SEC rules.
We do not pursue interviews with respondents that we suspect or know to be Insiders.
If we receive information that we suspect or know to be insider information, we do not pass this information on to our client.
Verbatim’s respondents are neither paid nor under any obligation to speak with us.
We continuously monitor our staff’s work to ensure the policies are followed.
No deliverable is sent to a client without a thorough compliance review by Verbatim Managers knowledgeable about insider trading rules.
We review current publications and legal changes to the application of SEC rules to ensure that our policies are up to date.

Privacy of Respondents

Verbatim only discloses contact information for selected interviewees to clients, and will do so only if both (a) the respondent has agreed to be contacted by the client and (b) the client has agreed that it will maintain this contact information as confidential within their firm.

Privacy of Clients

Verbatim’s reports are customized and proprietary to the specific client that commissioned the report, and cannot be shared with any other firms except in unique situations where a client has authorized this in writing.