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Keynote Panel Announced for ACA’s 2022 Annual Conference

Navigating Uncertainty: Risk Management and the Regulatory Agenda Compliance, risk, performance, and technology leadership are constantly challenged to keep pace with the ever-evolving regulatory changes while finding their way through the pressures of geopolitical threats, economic crises, and third-party risks. This is the moment. New regulatory leadership is setting new priorities and reinforcing others. In

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Annie Morris Joins ACA Group as Chief Product Officer

ACA Group (ACA), the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) adviser in financial services, announced today that Annie Morris has joined the firm as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead ACA’s integrated product strategy and vision. Annie joins ACA with 25 years of experience in product strategy and financial technology, bringing new products to market

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When Push Comes to Breach: Hackers Use Push Notifications to Bypass MFA

From tracking packages and meal delivery service to approving logins to your accounts, push notifications play a vital role in the user experience. Not only can vendors send messages directly to your fingertips, push notifications in multifactor authentication (MFA) implementation allow users to protect themselves and impede cybercriminals. For the end user, it is no

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Transaction Reporting Errors Expose Huge Gaps for Market Abuse and Systemic Risk Monitoring

ACA Group research has detected more than 6 million transaction reporting errors across a sample of 30 review projects, averaging 200,000 errors per review 97% of reports under MiFIR/EMIR contain inaccuracies Despite this, 87% of firms are confident in the quality of their reports FCA may have crackdown in its sights New research from ACA

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ACA Group Named Accounting/Due Diligence Firm of the Year by M&A Advisor

ACA Group announced today that ACA Aponix® is the recipient of the Accounting/Due Diligence Firm of the Year in the 20th Annual M&A Advisor Awards. The M&A Advisor Awards are the benchmark for dealmaking excellence, recognizing the leading M&A Transactions, Restructurings, Deal Financings, Product/ Services, Firms, and Professionals. Henry Lindemann, Managing Director for ACA Aponix,

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ACA Group Selected as a RegTech100 Company for 2022

ACA Group has been named one of the 100 most innovative RegTech companies in the financial industry by RegTech Analyst for the second consecutive year. Now in its fifth edition, the RegTech 100 recognizes the world’s most innovative technology solution providers that offer products and services in the areas of compliance, risk management, information security

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ACA Group Named Best Regulatory Consultancy – North America by RegTech Insight

ACA Group is honored that the RegTech Insight community voted us the Best Regulatory Consultancy – North America in the RegTech Insight Awards 2021 USA. These awards recognize solution providers that have successfully improved firms’ ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry. Carlo

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ACA Group and Foreside to Join Forces

New York, NY and Portland, ME – November 17, 2021 – ACA Group (“ACA”) and Foreside Financial Group, LLC (“Foreside”), two of the leading providers of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine their two companies. Genstar Capital (“Genstar”),

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Michael Borts joins ACA Group as the new Chief Technology Officer

Michael brings over 25 years of experience leading software development teams and digital transformation in financial services. ACA Group (ACA), the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, announced today that Michael Borts has joined the firm as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead ACA’s technology development, vision, and strategy. In his

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ACA Group Acquires Catelas to Create Industry-first 360 Surveillance Offering

The integration expands ACA’s regulatory technology software suite to include eComms surveillance technology. ACA Group (ACA), the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, has acquired Catelas, a sophisticated machine learning-based electronic communications (eComms) surveillance and investigations platform. Catelas ingests all types of eComms, trade alerts, and voice calls to provide buy-

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