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Profiles of the REGTECH100, the world’s most innovative RegTech companies that every leader in the regulatory industry needs to know about in 2021 Join Over 1,000 Industry Leaders to Learn About the Latest Innovations in AML & FinCrime Technology 26 & 27 JANUARY 2021 | TWO-DAY DIGITAL EVENT REGISTER NOW www.AMLTechForum.com The REGTECH100 is an annual list of 100 of the world’s most innovative RegTech companies selected by a panel of industry experts and analysts. These are the companies every financial institution needs to know about as they consider and develop their mission critical RegTech and digital transformation strategies. There’s plenty of interest and hype about RegTech in the marketplace, but much of it is superficial, incoherent or self-serving and fails the needs of decision- makers in incumbent financial institutions who require independent, facts, figures and analysis. The REGTECH100 list will help senior management and compliance professionals evaluate which digital solutions have market potential and are most likely to succeed and have a lasting impact on the industry. CRITERIA A range of factors was considered by the Advisory Board and RegTech Analyst team to make the final selection including: • Industry significance of the problem being solved; • Growth, in terms of capital raised, revenue, customer traction; • Innovation of technology solution offered; • Potential cost savings, efficiency improvement, impact on the value chain and/or revenue enhancements generated for clients; • How important is it for financial institutions to know about the company? PROCESS RESEARCH CONDUCT IDENTIFY NOMINATE REGTECH INTERVIEWS REGTECH 100 PUBLISH COMPANIES UNIVERSE & SURVEY Analyse universe Shortlist Undertake in- Determine which Announce results of RegTech candidates that depth interviews companies excel to media and solution meet criteria or surveys in terms of the finalists providers on along with with founders criteria and can RegTech Analyst companies and CEOs of be classified database and nominated via shortlisted as RegTech external sources the website companies innovation leaders 1 Second That's about how long it takes to verify a customer’s identity with Veratad. Everything you need to prevent fraud, stay compliant and keep transactions moving – in the time it takes your customer to blink twice. IDENTITY DATA DOCUMENT SMART 2FA VERIFICATION & MUCH MORE. KNOWLEDGE-BASED BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION Learn more at veratad.com/inancial-services Read our in-depth interview on pages 98-99. 5 REGTECH100 Profiles Founded 2002 Employees: 501-1,000 Regulation/Legislation: MiFID II, AIFMD, KYC, AML, GDPR, EMIR, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, SM&CR, MAR, CCPA Subsectors: Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Communications Monitoring, Transaction Monitoring, Cybersecurity/Information Security, Risk Management, Reporting, Compliance Management Regions of operations: Americas, Europe ACA Compliance Group (ACA) is a leading global provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions. ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® enables financial services firms around the globe to strengthen and streamline their risk and compliance management programs from a single platform. Available on desktop and mobile devices, ComplianceAlpha helps firms to keep pace with the regulators’ evolving requirements and increasing technological capabilities. Developed by ACA’s team of former regulators, compliance professionals, regulatory technologists, and cybersecurity professionals, ComplianceAlpha helps firms automate manual tasks, identify risk through enhanced surveillance capabilities, derive deeper insights through connected data, increase employee compliance, and free up valuable resources. ComplianceAlpha includes functionality for employee compliance, trade surveillance, AML KYC/CIP, compliance program management, marketing reviews, third-party risk management, regulatory reporting, and cybersecurity and technology risk. Our clients include leading investment advisers, private fund managers, commodity trading advisors, investment companies, broker-dealers, and domestic and international banks. Founded 1836 Employees: 1,001-5,000 Regulation/Legislation: KYC, AML Subsectors: Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Risk Management, Identification/Background checks, Compliance Management Regions of operations: Globally Accuity powers compliant and assured client transactions to help build an interconnected and trusted financial ecosystem. Their financial crime screening, payment services, and benefits compliance solutions help enable financial inclusion while identifying criminal activity and fraudulent players. With deep expertise and industry-leading data and analytics solutions from the Firco and Bankers Almanac brands, Accuity provides unmatched confidence, efficiency and compliance for customers around the world. Accuity has been delivering solutions to banks and businesses worldwide for 180 years. Accuity’s Firco solutions for transaction, account and trade screening enable organisations to ensure sanctions compliance, detect financial crime, and prepare for regulatory scrutiny. The Bankers Almanac suite of payment services provides accurate, up-to-date financial data to support payment routing and counterparty Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence. The Benefits Eligibility portfolio enables U.S. federal and state government agencies to determine applicants’ eligibility to receive benefits from assistance programs, quickly and accurately. Founded 2018 Employees: 11-50 Regulation/Legislation: AML Subsectors: Risk Management, Compliance Management Regions of operations: EU Acuminor is a Swedish-based RegTech founded in 2018, specialized in anti-financial crime threat intelligence. With advanced analytics tools powered by machine learning, our intelligence analysts keep you up to date with the latests financial crime trends. The analyses are always available in our SaaS Solution that contains three products: Risk Assessment Pro (for business-wide risk assessments), ThreatView (for financial crime intelligence) and Acuminor API (for integration of financial crime threats and risk indicators into your existing KYC or TM tools). Internally they use a variety of techniques to create effective, high- quality analyses - Machine learning/NLP play an important role. Our Solution is delivered as cloud SaaS. © 2020 FinTech Global and Investor Networks Ltd REGION: GLOBAL | SECTOR: REGTECH COMPANY RESEARCH PROFILE Founded 2015 Employees 101-250 Immenstaad, Germany Regions of operation: EMEA, Americas, APAC www.actico.com [email protected] PRODUCT NAME: ACTICO Decision Management Platform and Compliance Suite KEY EMPLOYEES: Hans Jürgen Rieder Thomas Knöpfler Christine Moosherr Volker Großmann CEO CSO & Co-Founder COO & Co-Founder CTO & Co-Founder Value Chain: Onboarding, Monitoring, Detection, Reporting, Processing & Control Subsectors: Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Transaction Monitoring, Risk Management, Identification/ Background checks, Compliance Management, Sanctions Lists and PEP screening, Market Abuse and Insider Trading Detection, Fraud Management Regulation/Legislation: MiFID II, PSD2, Basel III, KYC, AML, GDPR, Basel III OFFERING PROBLEM BEING SOLVED TECHNOLOGY Actico is an international provider of software The intelligent use of advanced analytics, The compliance suite administration for intelligent automation and digital automation and machine learning is environment is based on the award-winning decisioning. The company provides software becoming increasingly important for the ACTICO Platform, a flexible and scalable and tools used across multiple industries financial sector. Actico enables companies software for digitalizing and automating enhancing day-to-day decision-making and to implement agile services and applications high-volume, operational business decisions. end-to-end automation. Its ACTICO Platform to automate decisions or improve human It is designed for intelligent automation is a flexible and scalable technology for decision-making. Thus, financial services and digital decisioning and combines digitalizing and automating high-volume, providers and insurance companies human knowledge and AI with automation operational business decisions. It helps can manage digital transformation via technology. The unified low-code platform organizations capture decision-making logic, technology that helps them adapt regulatory makes it easy to implement applications train and operationalize machine learning requirements and serve customers in real- and services in order to improve market models, and apply automatic decision time. responsiveness. The Platform consists of making to any application scenario. Actico has proven software solutions in the components that support business domain Used to manage risks, fulfil regulatory area of Compliance, Credit Risk Management experts, data scientists and IT professionals compliance obligations, prevent fraud, and supports its customers with Business throughout the entire digital decisioning enhance digital customer engagement Rules Management technology (ACTICO lifecycle. Business domain experts use and optimize operations, Actico software Platform) for individual use cases such the ACTICO Modeler to author decision combines human knowledge and artificial as fraud prevention, real-time customer models graphically and test them for quality intelligence with its automation technology. communication in banking, multi-channel assurance. Data scientists use ACTICO