Broker-Dealer Insights

Inside Dalmore Group’s Broker Dealer Operating System: The Brain of Modern Broker-Dealer Operations

The BDOS is not a generic CRM or document storage system retrofitted for compliance. It’s the product of two decades of operational insight, designed by a broker-dealer for broker-dealers, to handle the unique demands of regulated fundraising.

November 24, 2025
Broker-Dealer Insights

In the highly regulated world of capital markets, speed, compliance, and control are the pillars of a broker-dealer’s success. For too long, broker-dealers have relied on fragmented tools; spreadsheets, shared drives, email archives, and disconnected databases to manage issuers, store investor data, and prepare for audits.

Dalmore Group has been a FINRA-registered broker-dealer for over 20 years. Over that time, we’ve managed hundreds of offerings, thousands of investors, and billions in transactions and we saw first-hand that no existing system could handle the scale, complexity, and compliance requirements of modern online fundraising.

So, we built our own.

The Dalmore Group Broker Dealer Operating System (BDOS) is a proprietary, turn-key compliance and issuer management platform designed from the ground up based on over two decades of broker-dealer experience.

It is the brain of our firm, powering everything from real-time investor review to secondary trade approvals.

Complete Books & Records — All in One Place

 A common operational challenge for any broker-dealer is keeping every required record organized, accessible, and audit-ready. The BDOS solves this by centralizing all FINRA- and SEC-mandated data into one secure, unified environment, eliminating the scattered folders, drives, and spreadsheets that most firms rely on.

At the core of the system is a structured framework that keeps every category of information exactly where it belongs, including:

  • Investor profiles and PII, encrypted and protected with granular access controls to ensure complete audit readiness.

  • Trade and order records that follow each transaction through its full lifecycle, from initial subscription to final settlement.

  • Issuer documents and offering materials are stored with built-in version control and full logs of every compliance approval.

Instead of stitching together Google Drive, Dropbox, Excel, and email threads, everything your firm needs now lives in one place — organized, secure, and instantly retrievable when regulators ask.

Real-Time Compliance Review Through Portal Integration

For select offerings, Dalmore Portal connects directly into the BDOS, creating a continuous and compliant flow of investor data from the moment someone begins the checkout process. This integration allows our compliance team to oversee investments in real time and maintain full regulatory consistency across the entire lifecycle of the transaction.

Through this connection, issuers benefit from:

  • Real-time investor review, where our compliance team can immediately approve or deny investors as they complete checkout in your white-labeled portal.

  • Automated regulatory tracking, with each investment seamlessly pushed into BDOS for KYC/AML verification, accreditation checks, and trade review without any manual handling.

  • Secondary trading oversight, enabling our team to review and clear trades before settlement, ensuring every transaction meets FINRA and SEC requirements.

The result is a fully connected compliance engine behind your investor experience — fast, accurate, and built for audit readiness.

API-Ready for Third-Party Investment Platforms

Should an issuer or marketplace create their own investment technology and need a broker-dealer supprt, direct connection to your proprietary investment will flow directly to our system through API, allowing Dalmore Group to handle compliance oversight without disrupting your product vision.

With the BDOS API framework, issuers can:

  • Sync investor data, trades, and compliance notes directly into BDOS, ensuring all regulatory requirements are met regardless of how the investor engages with your platform.

  • Maintain complete control over the front-end experience, while relying on BDOS as the secure books-and-records engine behind the scenes.

  • Centralize oversight, allowing our team to review, approve, or deny investors and trades from a single system — even when transactions originate from your own proprietary checkout.

This approach gives issuers the freedom to innovate while ensuring every investment remains compliant, audit-ready, and fully supervised under Dalmore Group’s broker-dealer umbrella.

Secondary Trade Review & Investor Approval

For issuers offering secondary liquidity through an Alternative Trading System (ATS), the BDOS serves as the compliance checkpoint that ensures every transaction meets regulatory standards before it settles. Rather than operating in a silo, all secondary trading activity flows directly into the BDOS, giving our compliance team full visibility into each trade.

Through this process, the BDOS enables Dalmore Group to:

  • Review and approve trades initiated through connected ATS partners before they are executed.

  • Flag or deny transactions that raise concerns around eligibility, improper activity, or regulatory restrictions.

  • Maintain a complete audit trail documenting every approval, denial, and compliance decision made throughout the lifecycle of each trade.

With BDOS acting as the oversight layer, issuers can offer secondary liquidity confidently, knowing that every trade is monitored, reviewed, and documented in accordance with FINRA and SEC requirements.

The BDOS is designed to give broker-dealers everything they need to operate efficiently, respond to regulators quickly, and manage issuers end-to-end—all within a single, secure environment. When regulators request information, the system can generate audit-ready reports in minutes, pulling investor lists, offering summaries, trade histories, and even historical marketing approvals with a simple search. Every action taken in the BDOS is captured in a timestamped audit log, ensuring full traceability.

Issuers and broker-dealers also retain complete control over their data. All information stored in the BDOS is encrypted in transit and at rest, easily exportable at any time, and governed by granular permission settings so teams can manage internal access without relying on external storage providers.

The BDOS solves the biggest pain points broker-dealers face today:

  1. Centralization: Replace multiple tools with one unified system.
  2. Compliance Confidence: Automated tracking, reviews, and retention.
  3. Audit Readiness: Reports in minutes, not days.
  4. Scalability: Manage more issuers without adding headcount.
  5. Flexibility: Use with our white-label portal or connect your own via API.

Built From 22 Years of Broker-Dealer Experience

Whether you’re running your offerings through Dalmore Portal or your own custom platform, the BDOS ensures that every investment, every trade, and every document is compliant, secure, and ready for regulatory review.

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