Castine Consulting

Castine LLC, (formerly Cogent Consulting), provides cloud-based Commission and Compliance management solutions to the investment community. Castine’s 2000+ subscribers use different modules of our suite independently or in conjunction with each other. Castine's Commissioner system is used by institutional and retail brokers and wealth management firms for all of their compensation, sales performance, and profitability reporting, avoiding the time and risk of using spreadsheet or legacy systems. Castine's RPA Centre and Commander solutions simplified the reporting requirements for commission management and MiFID II. The system provides investment managers with an integrated collection of modules for research valuation, budgeting, payment/aggregation, trade reporting, and vendor/broker management. The related Spinnaker module allow brokers to track all pricing and interaction, platform, and event based reporting and invoice management. The Compliance Telescope streamlines the vendor due diligence process for onboarding new counterparties, including fund managers, research brokers, KYC, cybersecurity, employee attestations, and vendors. Full interview and multi-department approvals with complete tracking of supporting documents. The related AnswerBase modules allow responders to manage RFP, DDQ, and data room requests. Castine was originally formed in 1983 and operates out of offices in Ridgewood (NJ, USA), Buenos Aires, and London.