What compliance functions can ACA support through Managed Services?

AML due diligence, sanctions screening, marketing review, and core compliance task execution.

Can ACA help firms manage global AML onboarding and screening requirements?

Yes—covering due diligence, onboarding, screening, and monitoring to meet global AML standards.

How does ACA support Marketing and Financial Promotions review?

By reviewing pitchbooks, emails, and other content for SEC, FCA, and ESMA compliance.

What is included in core compliance task outsourcing?

Regulatory calendar execution, compliance tracking, policy reviews, and flexible staffing.

Can ACA provide temporary compliance staff or secondments?

Yes—short-term and ongoing secondments to fill key compliance roles.

How do firms maintain control while outsourcing compliance tasks?

Firms retain final oversight and decision-making while ACA executes tasks per their policies.

What systems does ACA use to deliver its services?

Services run on ACA’s ComplianceAlpha ® platform or within clients’ existing systems.

Does ACA support multi-jurisdictional compliance teams?

Yes—structured to handle U.S., U.K., and EU regulatory frameworks.

How does ACA ensure consistent execution across compliance tasks?

Standardized procedures and escalation logic ensure repeatable, policy-aligned work.

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Build Resilience, Minimize Disruptions

Prepare for the unexpected and recover with confidence.

Cyber incidents are growing more sophisticated and frequent, and the stakes have never been higher. Firms must be prepared to act decisively in the face of evolving cyber threats. While many firms have resiliency plans in place, the quality and completeness often vary, leaving critical gaps in protection.

A well-designed and rigorously tested response plan may determine whether a firm recovers swiftly or suffers lasting damage. These tactics safeguard your firm from financial loss and preserve investor confidence. ACA’s experts work with your firm to assess the potential impact of cyber incidents, develop tailored policies and response programs, and provide the insights needed to continuously strengthen your defenses.

ACA’s approach ensures your response plan is both comprehensive and aligned with regulatory expectations. We pressure test your strategy through targeted incident response reviews and tabletop exercises that simulate real-world scenarios, helping validate your readiness.

Discover how ACA’s cyber solutions and technology can enhance your response capabilities, and your team’s confidence in executing them.

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What Do You Need Help With?

We can help you design and implement your incident response and business continuity plans to minimize business disruption and comply with evolving regulations. Solutions include:

Business Continuity Planning

We review your current program, manuals, and procedures to identify gaps and areas for improvement. Our experts help you implement best practices in resiliency planning and governance to ensure your firm meets regulatory expectations.

Cyber Incident Response Planning

We can help you develop an incident response plan (IRP) that mitigates losses from a cybersecurity event. But a strong plan is only part of the solution. We also provide employee training so staff clearly understand their roles and responsibilities.

Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

Test your incident response program against real-world scenarios. We can help you discover gaps and find improvements. Most importantly, we help you test whether your response plan can withstand a real-world disruption and perform when it matters most.

Need Help Building Or Testing Your Firm’s Operational Resiliency?

Connect with a cyber expert to build an operational resilience plan aligned with your firm’s risk posture and appetite. We partner with you to build a solution that keeps you one step ahead of cyber threats and ensures operational continuity during disruptions.

Want To Recover Faster and More Confidently?

ACA brings together a deep bench of seasoned cyber and compliance experts to deliver actionable, real-world insights tailored to your business. Unlike firms that bundle Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) solutions, we offer these services independently, giving you the flexibility to design resilience solutions that align directly with your firm’s needs.

Unparalleled Industry Expertise

With new and evolving regulations including Regulation S-P and the Digital Operational Resiliency Act, regulators are focused on your firm’s ability to respond to and recover from cyber incidents. ACA’s regulatory expertise helps you understand and meet these obligations confidently.

Safeguarding Systems, Sites, and Services

Our experts help you stress test your firm’s technology and physical locations to ensure the business stays operational after an attack.

Fail Point Discover and Future-Proofing

We help you pinpoint the processes your firm can’t function without and help design alternative workflows. This helps ensure critical operations run smoothly while strengthening overall resilience.

FAQs

Cyber Operational Resilience and Governance

What is a Business Impact Analysis and why is it important?

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifies critical business functions and evaluates the risks and potential impacts of outages or disruptions. They are a component of any risk assessment, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning and are used to help decisionmakers understand how an event might impact the business and how to respond. We work with your department leads to identify critical processes, tolerances for downtime, and interdependence. The BIA is usually the precursor to a business continuity plan.

How can a Business Continuity Plan reduce the impact of cyber incidents for my firm?

Whereas a BIA can provide key insights on whether a cyber or unexpected event is critical or not, the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) outlines the steps to take during an outage or disruption. It’s important to note that not all risks identified in the BIA will be addressed in the BCP. The business will determine the potential impact severity through the BIA and build the BCP around those risks accordingly.

What makes ACA’s approach to business continuity planning different?

With so many moving parts, developing a BCP that serves as a single source of truth and aligns with regulatory expectations is a complex challenge. We help firms not only decode what regulators expect but also identify and prioritize the incidents most likely to cause serious harm. Our unparalleled understanding of pertinent regulations, combined with deep expertise across cybersecurity and regulatory technology enables us to craft holistic, firm-specific strategies that extend beyond compliance and strengthen resilience.

What is a cybersecurity tabletop exercise and why should my firm run one?

A tabletop exercise simulates a cyber incident to test your response plan. By leveraging the firm’s existing BCP and simulating crises and scenarios, the organization can identify defense weaknesses and address them to prevent future cyber events. It helps identify gaps, improve coordination, and ensure your team is prepared for real-world threats.

What types of firms does ACA support with business continuity and cyber resilience?

We work with over 650 firms across financial services, private equity, asset management, and fintech, delivering customized solutions that align with industry-specific risks and regulations.

How do I get started with ACA’s business continuity and incident response services?

Contact us to schedule a strategy session. Our experts will assess your needs and help you build a plan that enhances resilience and regulatory readiness.