Cognia Cloud was a
cloud-based
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compliance archiving and analytics company. It was established in 2007 to provide recording and regulatory solutions to
financial institution
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s,
telecommunications providers and field services enterprises. It was headquartered in the UK with operations in North America and Asia-Pacific. In 2017, it was acquired by
Smarsh.
Products and services
Its core product offering was the Cognia unified communications archive, which monitors, stores and analyzes multi-channel business interactions across multiple media: mobile voice, text, landline, video,
Skype
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, email and social media.
Cognia worked with telco partners in
North America,
Asia
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and
Europe
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and served over 60 banks and financial institutions meet regulatory requirements, including US
Dodd-Frank and EU
MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 20142014/65/EU commonly known as MiFID 2 (Markets in financial instruments directive 2), is a legal act of the European Union. Together with Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 it provides a legal framework fo ...
. Cognia's major customers included
Swisscom
Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Ittigen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51.0 percent of Swisscom AG. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share o ...
,
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Public limited company, plc () is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Telephone company, telecommunications company. Its registered office and Headquarters, global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It ...
,
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the gro ...
,
Santander,
Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS; gd, Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a major retail banking, retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) ...
,
AVIVA
Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 18 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...
and
Centrica
Centrica plc is a British multinational energy and services company with its headquarters in Windsor, Berkshire. Its principal activity is the supply of electricity and gas to consumers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
It is the largest ...
.
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