What is CAIS-CONNECT? CAIS-CONNECT is a cloud-based software solution that brings Financial Institutions (buy side) and Broker dealers (sell side firms) together for the sole purpose of streamlining the Financial services regulatory reporting mandate. CAIS-CONNECT allows a large pool of Financial Institutions (buy side) firms to submit their account details to a central repository. The Broker dealers (Sell side firms) connected to this service will receive an initial load and automatic updates of their buy side clients that can be used for mandatory regulatory reporting