Quarterback

Compliance

Disclosure-ready. Before the question is asked.

CAR analysis, R-factor scoring, and anomaly detection give your compliance team evidence, not guesswork. The audit trail is always assembled — ready whenever you need it.

ComplianceLeak Detection

Know if your stock moved before you said anything.

Quarterback analyses trading patterns in the lead-up to every announcement using Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CAR). Combined with R-factor scoring and announcement-free day anomaly detection, the platform surfaces the specific days that warrant investigation — turning what used to be a reactive process into a proactive one.

Leak Detection — Price & Volume
$3.80$3.70$3.60$3.50$3.40$3.30Feb 19Feb 21Feb 25Feb 26Feb 27Mar 03Mar 07Mar 13⚠ Leak Detection ZonePrice movement beforeannouncement2026-02-27

Fri 27 Feb 2026

O: $3.60H: $3.68L: $3.55C: $3.63
▼ -1.075%

Vol: 23.9M

Announcements

Appendix 4D and FY26 Half Year Report

CAR analysis

A 5-day CAR window runs on every material announcement — showing immediate market reaction, pre-announcement behaviour, and sustained impact over time. If your stock moved before you filed, you'll see it.

Pre-announcement CAR

Specifically tracks the period before each announcement. Unusual price or volume behaviour in the lead-up is flagged automatically with a pre-announcement CAR score.

Compliance-grade documentation

Every analysis is timestamped and stored. When a regulator asks what you knew and when, the documentation is already there — not assembled under pressure.

ComplianceAnomaly Detection

Catch anomalies the moment they appear.

Days with statistically unusual price or volume movements — but no announcements — are automatically flagged with severity indicators. R-factor scores quantify the degree of abnormality, helping your team prioritise which periods require review and which are market noise.

Unexplained Price Spikes
+5.0+4.0+3.0+2.0+1.0+0.0-1.0-2.0-3.0Abnormal Returns (Z-Score)z = +2z = -2$$$18 Dec1 Jan15 Jan29 Jan12 Feb26 Feb12 MarHighly Unusual+4.2 SD · No announcementHighly Unusual-2.8 SD · No announcement
Unexplained positive spikes
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Unexplained negative spikes
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Normal days

Abnormal day detection

Days where trading activity falls outside normal ranges are automatically flagged — with R-factor scores indicating the degree of abnormality. Know which days warrant investigation.

Unexplained price spike chart

A Z-score visualisation of significant price movements on days without announcements. Unexplained spikes plotted against your announcement history — instantly readable by your legal or compliance team.

Price spike alerts

Real-time detection of sudden, significant intraday price movements that deviate from normal trading patterns. Triggered independently of scheduled thresholds — designed to surface moments that need immediate attention.

ComplianceRumour Detection

Find speculative language before it becomes a problem.

Speculative language patterns — “might be”, “could be”, “rumour has it” — are identified and flagged by AI across forums, social media, and news sources. Activities containing rumour characteristics are marked within the platform, giving you a clear audit trail for monitoring potential down-ramping and misinformation.

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SmallCapHunter

Heard from a mate in the industry that XYZ are apparently looking at a takeover of ABC Mining. No idea if true but the speculation is heating up...

Compliance Alert
Likely Rumour45% confidence
3 patterns matched
“heard from a mate”“apparently”“speculation”

AI rumour flagging

Posts with speculative or rumour-pattern language are automatically identified and labelled in your activity feed. Review them in context without hunting through hundreds of posts.

Mar 14, 09:42·SmallCapHunter78%

"heard they might be in talks with..."

Mar 14, 11:15·DeepValue_ASX65%

"apparently management are considering a placement"

Mar 13, 16:30·MiningRealist71%

"speculation mounting about a board spill"

Mar 12, 08:55·ResourceBull_WA84%

"insider told me the drill results are huge"

Audit trail for rumour monitoring

Every flagged activity is logged with its detection timestamp. Demonstrates to regulators and your legal team that monitoring was active and systematic.

ComplianceAlerts

Six alert types. Configured to your risk tolerance.

Each alert type has adjustable sensitivity thresholds and is delivered via email and real-time in-app notifications — designed to match your compliance team's reporting requirements.

Alert delivery

Real-time email + in-app notifications

compliance@yourcompany.com.au

Sentiment alerts

Set custom sentiment thresholds. Get notified the moment market commentary crosses into significantly positive or negative territory — before it becomes a trend.

Broad search alerts

Monitor for sensitive keywords — project names, counterparties, transaction details. Built specifically for tracking potential information leakage on confidential matters.

Price movement alerts

Set percentage thresholds calibrated to your market cap and volatility profile. Adjustable sensitivity means fewer false positives for companies that need it most.

Activity spike alerts

Detect abnormal volumes of market commentary or media coverage relative to your company's historical baseline. Identify emerging situations before they escalate.

Price spike alerts

Real-time detection of sudden intraday price movements deviating from normal patterns. Triggered independently of scheduled thresholds.

Leak detection & abnormal day alerts

In-app notifications triggered when unusual pre-announcement trading patterns are detected or when announcement-free days exhibit statistically abnormal behaviour.

ComplianceAudit Trail

Build your compliance record as you go. Not after the fact.

Quarterback assembles a continuous, timestamped record of market activity around your company every day — whether or not anything unusual is happening. When something does happen, the documentation is already built.

Feb 24, 08:12·ResourceBull_WA

“Anyone else notice the volume today? Something's brewing...”

Feb 24, 10:45·AFR

“XYZ Resources flags potential strategic review amid sector consolidation”

Feb 24, 14:30·SmallCapHunter

“Apparently board met yesterday — insider says takeover offer on the table”

Feb 25, 08:00ASX

XYZ Resources Ltd — Trading Halt

Pending announcement regarding a material acquisition

Feb 25, 09:15·MiningRealist

“Called it. Now the question is price. Management won't go cheap after the Q3 beat.”

Feb 25, 10:30·The Australian

“XYZ Resources confirms approach from Global Mining Corp in $1.2B deal”

RG 162 monitoring support

Quarterback supports your obligations under ASIC Regulatory Guide 162 — continuous monitoring of internet discussion sites for material information. Engaged with ASIC as part of the broader compliance infrastructure conversation.

Pre-built for regulatory response

When a regulatory question comes in, you're not scrambling to reconstruct a timeline. The complete, timestamped record is already there — ready to share with your legal team.

“Having Quarterback meant that when we needed to respond to a regulatory enquiry, we could do it in hours rather than days. The audit trail was already there.”

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The responsibility
of being listed.

The conversations happening around your stock on forums, news, and social platforms are a market-moving force. Every listed company has a responsibility to monitor that conversation. Quarterback makes it automatic.

Guidance Note 8

Your continuous disclosure obligations, built in

Regulatory Guide 162

Internet discussion site monitoring, automated

~65%

of daily ASX trades are attributable to retail investors

45%

of Australian adults now hold investments outside of superannuation

18%

of significant price moves show signs of information leakage before announcements

Trusted by ASX companies
and advisors

Quarterback has completely changed how we prepare for board meetings. The intelligence is there before we even ask for it.

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Sarah L.

Head of IR, ASX 200 Company

We replaced three separate tools with Quarterback. Sentiment, surveillance, and reporting — all in one place.

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James T.

Managing Director

The compliance features alone justified the switch. CAR analysis running automatically on every announcement is a game changer.

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Rebecca M.

Company Secretary

Our board now gets a market intelligence summary every week without us lifting a finger. The automated reports save hours.

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David K.

IR Manager, Resources Sector

Being able to see exactly how the market reacted to each announcement — and whether there was unusual activity beforehand — is invaluable for compliance.

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Michelle P.

General Counsel

The sector benchmarking feature is brilliant. We can finally show the board whether a price move was us or the market.

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Andrew W.

CFO, ASX-listed Company

We manage IR for eight ASX-listed clients. Quarterback lets us monitor all of them from a single dashboard with real intelligence, not just alerts.

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Kate R.

Director, IR Advisory Firm

When ASIC came asking questions about pre-announcement trading, we had the full audit trail ready in minutes. That's the difference Quarterback makes.

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Tom H.

Company Secretary

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