Acin, the data standards firm that is digitizing operational and non-financial risk, announces it has secured $12 million in Series A funding.
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The funding round was led by leading European SaaS investor Notion Capital, which will work closely with Acin to drive rapid growth, and supported by Fitch Ventures, the equity investment arm of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services. Other new and existing investors include Cris Conde (former President & CEO of SunGard), Christopher Carter (Chairman of Artorius Wealth Management and former Vice Chairman – Institutional Securities at Morgan Stanley) and Carlos Gonzales-Cadenas (COO at GoCardless and ex SkyScanner CPO). Additional, strategic investors will join this round in a second closing.
The funding will enable Acin to rapidly accelerate its proposition, by continuing to enhance its cloud-based Terminal with additional inventories of risks and controls, software extensions and integrated benchmarking. This will provide financial institutions with a complete front-to-back-office solution to assess and manage their operational and non-financial risks. With extensive applications beyond financial services, Acin will expand its solution into further sectors over time.
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Acin’s award-winning system was created for, and in collaboration with, the world’s largest financial institutions. It revolutionises the way these organisations manage their operational and non-financial risk and controls through a standardised, industry-wide inventory, and a first-of-its-kind Network that facilitates collaboration between members, currently 14 tier-one banks.
The system allows member organisations to fully digitise and quantify their operational and non-financial risks for the first time ever and enables them to manage these risks using ground-breaking data science, as well as comparing with, and learning from, peers. The result is improved understanding and management of their operational and non-financial risk position, which ultimately makes their business safer and more efficient. This could have significant balance sheet benefits by reducing the operational risk capital that they are required to hold in the future.
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