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Kalshi partners for compliance
StarCompliance and Kalshi announced a strategic partnership to launch an enterprise-grade global prediction market compliance solution that is purpose-built to monitor employee participation across prediction markets.
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The offering is designed to expand Star’s established digital asset and traditional security employee compliance framework so firms can ensure compliance by monitoring prediction market activity on Kalshi from one centralized compliance platform.
Star said prediction markets create new risks for financial services firms because employees have an additional avenue to profit from misuse of material non-public information (MNPI), and it framed the need as a “blind spot” in traditional compliance programs.
Kelvin Dickenson, Chief Product Officer at Star, said, "Prediction markets represent a rapidly emerging area of employee conduct and MNPI risk," as Max Crowley, VP of Business Development at Kalshi, argued that firms require compliance infrastructure as institutional adoption accelerates.
Employers gain visibility
Barron’s reported that Kalshi’s partnership with StarCompliance will let employers see employee trades in real time, as financial firms worry that employees may try to profit from nonpublic information.
The Barron’s piece tied the surveillance capability to the same concern that drove the StarCompliance announcement, describing it as a way to monitor prediction market activity on Kalshi.
In the PR Newswire announcement, Star said its Prediction Markets Monitoring solution includes automated surveillance across on-chain and off-chain prediction market ecosystems and configurable alerts based on firm-defined risk parameters.
Star also said the solution provides centralized case management for investigations and audit tracking, and it described monitoring tied to transaction volume, trading patterns, market categories, and work-hour activity.
Regulators vs states
Beyond compliance tooling, the sources describe an ongoing regulatory conflict over prediction markets, with US state regulators and the CFTC battling over oversight of event-based contracts.
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Cointelegraph said Nevada became the first state to temporarily block Kalshi's operations earlier this year, while Arizona accused the company of operating an illegal gambling business by offering event contracts to state residents.
Cointelegraph also said Kalshi sued Minnesota after the state enacted what CFTC Chair Michael Selig described as the country's first outright ban on prediction markets, and it said the CFTC joined Kalshi in a separate legal challenge against Rhode Island officials.
The same Cointelegraph report added that Representative James Comer asked CEOs of Kalshi and rival Polymarket for information on their responses to insider trading after “suspiciously timed trades” related to US military actions against Iran, and it quoted Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone saying, "It's going to be a very heated battle that the courts are going to have to weigh in on."
