Professionals receive compliance training and are bound by the NewtonX terms and conditions.
Screening and selection
We select our professionals with extreme care and attention. Each professional goes through a very selective evaluation and vetting process which:
- Validates their identity based on public sources as well as their personal identification.
- Granularly assesses their areas of expertise in order to guarantee accurate matches with the expertise requests from our clients.
- Ensures a granular mapping of their previous employers to accurately avoid any conflict of interest.
Professionals’ terms and conditions
In order to be accepted on our platform and share expertise with our clients, each of our professionals is required to sign the NewtonX terms and conditions annually. These terms and conditions are binding, and through them the experts certify:
- Having reviewed any agreements, policies or laws to which they are subject to
- Having expressly verified that they are permitted to join NewtonX
- Proactively verifying whether sharing their expertise could violate any agreement, policy or law they may be subject to
- Declining or terminating any expertise sharing that moves into subject matters they cannot discuss
- Not providing confidential (including material non-public) information to clients
- Keeping all client information confidential (name, interests or any type of information)
- View the Professionals Terms and Conditions | Review the NewtonX Professionals Tutorial
Professional Compliance Training
We have designed a tutorial illustrating unequivocally the rules of professional knowledge sharing based on the latest legislation as well as NewtonX’s principles of confidentiality and discretion. This tutorial includes a series of exercises as well as questions and answers to ensure that our professionals adopt the right framework when sharing their knowledge. During these exercises they receive feedback along the way and thereby can easily adopt the most professional way of knowledge sharing.
The tutorial explains what constitutes “confidential information”, sensitizes professionals to any confidentiality obligations they may have towards our client as well as their current and previous employers, and emphasizes that our clients do not want – and will actually be harmed – if they receive confidential information.
We evolve in a dynamic industry and as such update our tutorial frequently. Professionals are required to take our tutorial at a minimum yearly, but may also be asked to take the tutorial upon our request if we deem necessary.
Employer Confidentiality
Employees, including officers and directors, may not consult about their current employer – regardless of whether the employer is publicly held or privately owned. This prohibition extends to the parent and subsidiaries of an Advisor’s employer.
Furthermore, professionals are also required to follow strict guidelines regarding their previous employers. Even though they may share expertise related to the time of their previous employment, they are strictly forbidden to share any confidential information gained while working at any previous employer.
Transparency
Employees (including officers and directors) may not consult about their current employer – regardless of whether the employer is publicly held or privately owned. This prohibition extends to the parent and subsidiaries of an Advisor’s employer.
Furthermore, professionals are also required to follow strict guidelines regarding their previous employers. Even though they may share expertise related to the time of their previous employment, they are strictly forbidden to share any confidential information gained while working at any previous employer.