Smarsh - Archiving & Compliance

Safe to say the Smarshian had a lot of fans at the 2026 FINRA Annual Conference 📸

Beyond the camera roll, it was a week full of conversations about what’s changing across financial services — and what firms need to keep pace.

A few big themes kept surfacing:
✅ AI is everywhere, and so are the questions around hype vs. real, ready-for-use solutions
✅ Off-channel risk is still very much in focus, with shadow AI adding a new layer to watch
✅ Enforcement may be shifting in tone, but oversight, recordkeeping, and investor protection remain front and center

Stay tuned as we share more on what we learned. Until then, thanks to everyone who stopped by and made the event such a fun one!

There are millions of reasons to come to — but we had to narrow it down to just a few.

Here's what our attendees had to say 👇