Timothy Partners added three recordkeeping vendors in a communications archiving buildout, Causeway Securities onboarded two compliance vendors, and Creekstone Capital added a new clearing provider across six total events as the industry entered the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend.

Timothy Partners Builds Triple-Redundant Archiving

Timothy Partners, Ltd. added three recordkeeping vendors: Global Relay Communications Inc., MirrorWeb Inc., and Smarsh Inc. The simultaneous onboarding of three electronic communications archiving platforms at a single broker-dealer is highly unusual and suggests Timothy Partners is implementing a comprehensive — and potentially redundant — approach to communications capture and retention.

Global Relay, MirrorWeb, and Smarsh are three of the industry's leading electronic communications archiving providers, each offering capture capabilities across email, messaging platforms, social media, and voice communications. The triple-vendor approach may reflect a compliance strategy designed to ensure complete coverage across different communication channels, with each vendor handling specific platforms where it has the strongest capture capabilities.

Timothy Partners is the broker-dealer affiliated with Timothy Plan, one of the nation's largest faith-based mutual fund families. The firm's investment in communications archiving infrastructure aligns with FINRA's intensified enforcement focus on electronic communications recordkeeping.

Causeway Securities Establishes Compliance Infrastructure

Causeway Securities LLC added two vendors: Advisor Compliance Associates (ACA) for compliance and surveillance, and Zix Corporation for recordkeeping. The dual addition suggests Causeway — a newer market participant — is building out its foundational compliance infrastructure, with ACA providing outsourced compliance services and Zix handling encrypted communications archiving.

Creekstone Capital Adds Clearing Provider

Creekstone Capital added Hilltop Securities Inc. as a clearing and execution vendor. Hilltop Securities, the broker-dealer subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings, provides clearing services to a network of correspondent firms. The addition of a clearing relationship is one of the most consequential vendor changes a broker-dealer can make, as it determines the firm's execution, settlement, and custody infrastructure.

Holiday Weekend Quiet

January 18 recorded six events — all broker-dealer vendor additions — as the industry prepared for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday, January 19. No advisory, banking, enforcement, or regulatory activity was recorded. January 19 will be a market holiday with FINRA reporting systems closed, as announced in FINRA's January 12 holiday reminder.

All data sourced from FINRA BrokerCheck and the Finleet Terminal as of January 18, 2026. Entity profiles are available at terminal.finleet.com.