The Service Providers You Don't Know You Have: Finding Hidden Third Parties
Speakers:
Shannon Hull
Business Continuity Specialist
Joe Terry
Manager, Solutions Consultants
Most RIAs can name their major service providers. Few can account for the rest. A team adopts a tool outside procurement. A service auto-renews for years without review. A vendor comes in through an acquisition and never gets logged. Compliance teams often have no idea these relationships exist.
Undocumented service providers carry risk you can't see — data exposure, compliance gaps, concentration risk. This webinar shows where these relationships hide and gives you a concrete method for finding them, so every vendor relationship ends up in one defensible inventory.
You'll learn:
- Where third parties hide: invoices, old contracts, individual team tools, free trials that became permanent
- Common blind spots that let service providers slip through year after year
- A step-by-step method for pulling a complete list, not just the obvious ones
- How to design a discovery cadence that catches new service providers as they're adopted
- Who should own each step of the process, and how to keep it running long-term
- How to test whether your process is working
This webinar is for RIA compliance officers and operations leads who want confidence that their third-party inventory reflects reality and aligns with regulatory expectations and best practices.