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- Cloud Infrastructure
- Compliance
- Components
- Data Residency
- Encryption
- Enterprise
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Who is Global Relay?
Global Relay is an enterprise communications archiving and compliance platform provider focused on regulated industries such as financial services.
- Cloud-based archive for email, messaging, voice, and other electronic communications (data archiving and compliance).
- Supervision, monitoring, and review tools for regulatory compliance workflows (compliance management).
- Search, discovery, and legal hold capabilities for investigations and e-discovery (e-discovery and governance).
- Information governance, retention policy management, and records management services (information governance).
- Secure infrastructure with data residency options designed for financial institutions and other regulated organizations (regulated cloud services).
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More About Global Relay
Global Relay provides cloud-based archiving and compliance services that capture, store, and manage electronic communications for enterprises, with particular focus on financial institutions, broker-dealers, and other regulated organizations. Its platform is designed to support long-term retention, supervision, and retrieval of communications such as email, Instant Messaging (IM), collaboration tools, mobile messaging, and voice recordings, aligning with regulatory requirements in jurisdictions where its customers operate.
The company’s archive and compliance platform (data archiving and compliance) ingests communications from multiple channels into a centralized, tamper-resistant repository. This repository is typically used as part of an organization’s information governance and regulatory compliance architecture, often integrated with existing identity management, messaging, and collaboration systems. Global Relay positions its services to address regulatory frameworks that govern electronic communications retention and supervision in sectors such as capital markets and banking.
On top of the archive, Global Relay offers supervision and monitoring tools (compliance management) that allow compliance teams to define review workflows, sampling rules, and lexicon-based or policy-based alerts. These capabilities support processes such as trade surveillance support, conduct monitoring, and regulatory reporting preparation. The platform also provides advanced search, legal hold, and review features (e-discovery and governance) that are used by legal and compliance teams for internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and litigation support.
From a technology perspective, Global Relay operates a cloud infrastructure (regulated cloud services) designed to meet data residency, security, and redundancy requirements relevant to financial services and other regulated enterprises. The platform typically supports journaling and capture mechanisms from email servers, collaboration platforms, and messaging services, and stores data in a manner aligned with immutability and auditability expectations. Encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and audit trails are core architectural components as described in its materials.
Within an enterprise IT and vendor directory context, Global Relay fits into categories such as data archiving and compliance, information governance, e-discovery, and regulated cloud services. Organizations evaluate it alongside other enterprise archiving and compliance solutions when designing end-to-end compliance architectures that span communication capture, retention policy management, supervision, legal discovery, and records management across on-premises (on-prem), hybrid, and cloud environments.
Our description of Global Relay. Updated December 2025.
