Chartis RiskTech100 2025

Bobby Thomas is a seasoned Risk Management Professional with nearly 2 decades of extensive experience primarily in the insurance industry specialising in Risk Management, Internal Process Controls and Analytics.

He has primarily been with the Prudential Group in India (ICICI Prudential) where he was Vice President – Operational Risk before moving to Prudential Assurance Company Singapore as the Head of Risk Analytics and then moving as an Innovation Lead. In his current role, he is the Head of Governance and Analytics, Strategic Partnerships, Regional Technology with Prudential Corporation Asia. His passion lies in Risk mitigation and control using Technology and Analytics. In his last role in Innovation, he worked on solutions with various Fintech partners across the globe to identify best in class solutions.
By way of education, Bobby is an :

• MBA
• PG in Enterprise Management
• PG in Cyber Laws
• PG in Intellectual Property Rights
• ILPSE – INSEAD Leadership Program for Senior Executives
• CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor

Bobby is also an ICICI Group Leadership Award winner and a subject matter expert in areas of Risk Management where he shares his knowledge on the subject with various external bodies as well

Julia is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, CEO of Data4Real, LLC, a Board Advisor to several startups and Chair of Technology Advisory Council of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA). 

She is a recognized thought leader in data driven digital transformation with over 25 years of experience in building technology and business capabilities that enable business growth, innovation, and agility. Julia has led transformational initiatives in many financial services companies such as Voya Financial, Deutsche Bank Citi, FINRA, Freddie Mac, and others. 

Julia is a much sought-after speaker and mentor in the industry, and she has received recognition across the industry for her significant contributions. She has been named to engatica 2023 list of World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators; received 2022 WLDA Changemaker in AI award; has been named to CDO Magazine’s List of Global Data Power Women three years in the row; named Top 150 Business Transformation Leader by Constellation Research in 2019; and recognized as the Best Data Management Practitioner by A-Team Data Management Insight in 2017.

She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University.   

Maninder is a Chief Control Officer and Non-Financial Risk & Compliance Expert, leading the creation and implementation of commercially-aligned risk frameworks and associated systems and controls in global Financial Services.

Most recently she has been Chief Control Officer at Barclays UK. Her earlier career includes Finance Chief Control Officer at HSBC UK; and roles at Standard Chartered in Singapore as Executive Director – Operational Risk, Corporate Function and Head of Operational Risk Governance, Framework & Regulation.

Leveraging her deep enterprise risk leadership experience, she designs and innovates solutions to risk & compliance issues, including on conduct, climate risk and risk & control remediation. This includes leading the remediation of SOX related deficiencies at HSBC, identifying several duplicate and missing controls to create a sustainable, commercial control framework.

Maninder has a strong track record in distilling complex risk frameworks and regulations into easily accessible visuals to enhance stakeholder communications while nurturing credible relationships up to Board-level to build the bridge between risk / compliance and the wider organisation.

Additionally, she connects and clearly communicates the relationship between disparate risk, compliance and control data to drive compelling dialogue with Boards, NEDs and Heads of Business.

Minor Huffman is a technology leader with extensive executive management experience in capital markets with a focus on electronic trading, risk management, and fund management platforms.  Minor has a proven track record designing and developing new software products that increase revenue, improve efficiency and reduce operational risk in the financial services industry.  

Most recently, Minor served at the Chief Technology Officer at Instinet, where he was responsible for driving technology innovation, operating the firm's trading platforms, and managing the technology organization globally.  Prior to this, Minor served as a Managing Director at Citco Group where he led the development and application support teams for their fund services division.  

He was previous Global Head of Rates Technology at Credit Suisse and the Chief Technology Officer at FXall.  Minor holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Olga Baldwin is a VP, Vendor Management at Axiom Bank with over 13 years of experience in third party risk management. Currently she is responsible for the third-party risk management program development, improvements, and implementation to ensure a proper oversight of the bank third parties is conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements including selection, risk assessment, due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and terminations. Prior to this role, Olga held a position of a Director, Vendor Risk Management at Sterling National Bank overseeing Vendor Risk Management Program.

Olga holds an MBA in Finance and International Business Development from Zicklin School of Business as well as BA in Economics from CUNY, Hunter College

Paddy Christie is a Governance, Risk and Control subject matter expert and leads Lloyds Banking Group’s Non-Financial Risk Technology strategy. Paddy has 12 years financial services experience leading teams across Business Transformation, Conduct Risk, Operations, and Investment Management. He has a proven track record of delivering complex risk management programmes and recently led the implementation of the company’s operational risk system. Paddy is driven to simplify and modernise non-financial risk by championing the use of data and technology. In his spare time, he enjoys outdoor pursuits and is an accomplished musician.  

Over 20 years of banking experience focused on managing credit and other banking risks in challenging markets.

Joined Banque BEMO in 1999, Lebanon’s most reputed corporate and private bank with a presence in Lebanon, Cyprus, Luxembourg, and Paris. Was a member of the group in charge of establishing the first private bank in Syria in a joint venture between Banque BEMO and Banque Saudi Fransi which is affiliated with Crédit Agricole. Nominated in 2006 as Chief Credit and Risk Officer for the new Syrian bank which expanded quickly to become Syria’s largest private bank. Managed successfully credit and all banking risks in times of expansion and during the crisis.

Joined the Lebanese Cedrus Banking Group in 2015 as Group Chief Credit and Risk Officer and helped in the consolidation and enhancement of credit and risk management activities of 2 banks, Cedrus Bank (commercial and retail banking) and Cedrus Invest Bank (private and investment banking) while escorting the expansion of the Group inside Lebanon in a challenging environment.

Recently, joined Afghanistan International Bank.

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in global capital markets, consulting and associated technologies, focusing on risk management, front- and middle-office platforms and data management. Before Chartis he held executive positions in large global financial institutions, consultancies and FinTechs, in various roles including platform and software development, solution architecture, large-scale program management, vendor selection and implementation, and strategy development and execution.

With a background covering the front, middle and back office, Mark brings to Chartis a holistic view of business, technology and regulatory issues across the enterprise, and how these issues can be addressed by leveraging appropriate technology solutions. His primary focus has been risk technology, and his work in this area includes: leading the global teams for risk technology at RBS Capital Markets and AIG; working with middle- and front-office technology teams at Barclays Capital; extensive consulting experience with major consulting organizations including EY and Deloitte; and extensive vendor experience, including time at Algorithmics and Misys (now Finastra). Mark has an MA from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sid is the Chief Researcher at Chartis Research with more than 20 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodities markets in various functions across the trade and software development lifecycles. He has held various roles in product development, trading, risk management, software development and consulting in banks, hedge funds, and risk advisory and software firms, including Standard Chartered Bank, TCG Group, HCL and Cognizant.

Sid’s specific areas of interest and research include risk data, model risk management, quantitative models in illiquid markets, high-performance analytics, energy and commodity trading risk, market structure design, new computational models, and the use of innovative mathematical methods in various emerging areas of risk management .He has a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and is a qualified Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst CAIA, Financial Risk Manager (FRM) ,Energy Risk Professional (ERP), Member of GARP and CIPM from the CFA institute.

Over 20 years of banking experience focused on managing credit and other banking risks in challenging markets.

Joined Banque BEMO in 1999, Lebanon’s most reputed corporate and private bank with a presence in Lebanon, Cyprus, Luxembourg, and Paris. Was a member of the group in charge of establishing the first private bank in Syria in a joint venture between Banque BEMO and Banque Saudi Fransi which is affiliated with Crédit Agricole. Nominated in 2006 as Chief Credit and Risk Officer for the new Syrian bank which expanded quickly to become Syria’s largest private bank. Managed successfully credit and all banking risks in times of expansion and during the crisis.

Joined the Lebanese Cedrus Banking Group in 2015 as Group Chief Credit and Risk Officer and helped in the consolidation and enhancement of credit and risk management activities of 2 banks, Cedrus Bank (commercial and retail banking) and Cedrus Invest Bank (private and investment banking) while escorting the expansion of the Group inside Lebanon in a challenging environment.

Recently, joined Afghanistan International Bank.

With a unique skill set that combines more than 15 years of business and technology experience driving product strategy, partnerships, business solutions, and development, Anish’s focus is to lead and build out Chartis’ offerings in the core banking and RegTech space. Before joining Chartis Research, he held senior positions with market-leading companies such as AxiomSL (now Adenza), Temenos, and Grant Thornton, focusing on the areas of core banking, regulatory compliance, risk management, financial accounting, and regulatory reporting. Anish is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a Systems Auditor certification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Kevin King, Vice President of Credit Risk and Marketing Strategy, has nearly 20 years of experience in alternative credit data and risk analytics, having served in a variety of strategic and leadership roles at LexisNexis Risk solutions, and formerly at ID Analytics. In each of these roles, King has focused on providing financial services and telecommunications companies with a more complete view into consumer credit worthiness, enabling enterprises to expand financial inclusion and refine lending decisions across every consumer segment. A driving force in the industry for credit thought leadership, he has authored numerous whitepapers on a range of topics spanning credit and identity risk and routinely speaks on these topics at industry events. King holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado.

Donald R. van Deventer is Managing Director and co-chair of the Center for Applied Quantitative Finance in the Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions division of SAS Institute Inc. Prior to the SAS acquisition of Kamakura Corporation in June, 2022, Dr. van Deventer was Chairman and Chief Executive Office since founding the company in April, 1990. He is the author of Advanced Financial Risk Management and three other risk management books.

Dr. van Deventer was senior vice president in the Tokyo investment banking department of Lehman Brothers from 1987 to 1990.  From 1982 to 1987, Dr. van Deventer headed the funding department for First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles.  Dr. van Deventer was a Vice President in the risk management department of Security Pacific National Bank from 1977 to 1982.

Dr. van Deventer holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.  Dr. van Deventer also holds a degree in mathematics and economics from Occidental College, where he graduated second in his class, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa

Vinaya Sharma is an Actuary and Managing Director at QRM. He has been involved in a variety of roles ranging from actuarial modeling to client management and business development for financial institutions and insurance companies around the globe. Prior to joining QRM, he helped lead his employer’s Enterprise Risk Management initiative and was active in the Society of Actuaries Risk Management Task Force. He is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, and holds the PRM designation from PRMIA.

Alessio Gioia, born in Suzzara (Mantova) in 1971, married, two daughters. Graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in 1996 in Banking, Financial and Insurance Sciences with a thesis on Asset Backed securitization. Entering, immediately after graduation, in the world of operational finance as a currency market trader with a broker, he had the opportunity to deepen the logic of approach to proprietary trading and portfolio management. Later he gained experience as a "prop trader and portfolio manager" in banks and asset management companies. In the recent past he worked as Head of ALM and Banking Book and investment manager for two of the most important Italian banks.

For some years he has been a Visiting Fellow for the Università Cattolica S. Cuore - Faculty of Economics and Globalized Financial Markets. He is author of several scientific articles on finance in international journals. He is currently Head of Economic and Finance Department of the diocese of Mantua.

Matthew Lightwood, Ph.D, BSC (HONS), is a Managing Director at Conning where he is responsible for product management, quantitative modeling and providing technical expertise in economic modeling to support both prospective and new clients using the GEMS® economic scenario generator. Prior to joining Conning in 2009, he was employed as a Senior Risk Consultant, where he was responsible for financial modeling as well as managing and implementing large professional services projects for financial clients. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Manchester and University College London, where he earned a BSC (HONS) in Physics with Astrophysics and a Ph.D in High Energy Particle Physics.

Daniel Schobel is an actuary in Numerix 's Client Solutions Group, where he collaborates with clients to create Economic Scenario Generators that meet regulatory requirements and support effective risk management. Drawing on his extensive actuarial knowledge and proficiency with advanced analytics tools, Daniel helps clients optimize their economic scenarios and develop strategies to mitigate potential financial risks.

Before joining Numerix, Daniel spent five years at New York Life in roles related to valuation, annuity pricing, and scenario generation. During this time, he was responsible for calibrating and generating market-consistent and real-world scenarios for purposes such as economic capital, stochastic product pricing, VA guarantee valuation, and surplus-at-risk. Daniel's broad expertise in these areas has made him an invaluable asset to both his current and former employers, and he is widely respected throughout the actuarial community for his skill and knowledge.

Jay is currently serving as the Head of Data Governance for Financial Crimes Compliance at State Street Bank and Trust, where his role involves overseeing data management priorities and ensuring compliance with financial crimes regulations. Jay has demonstrated his leadership skills throughout his career by successfully leading various initiatives, including cloud transformation programs, building scalable data lakes, and enabling on-demand analytics.

With extensive experience in Credit, Market, and Operational Risk Management domains, Jay has a proven track record of leveraging data analytics to derive valuable insights and make informed decisions that mitigate risks and improve operational efficiency. Jay also has extensive experience working with Front-office and Currency Management systems supporting sales and trading teams. He has hands-one experience in graph data modeling, data fabric and data mesh architecture, and their application in mapping data domains within the financial services industry.

Jay has also utilized machine learning techniques, predictive analytics, and simulation to tackle credit risk and anti-money laundering challenges, resulting in optimized processes. He has been an early advocate for adopting Generative AI in enterprise applications while incorporating ethical considerations.

His knowledge and experience extend to the fintech industry, covering emerging technologies, digital banking, cryptocurrencies, and disruptive technologies. As an entrepreneur, Jay founded a startup and successfully launched a payment processing app, integrating it seamlessly with core banking platforms. Jay is also a frequent speaker on financial crimes compliance, risk management, predictive data analytics, product development and blockchain/crypto compliance topics at various industry conferences.

Jay brings a strong executive presence, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a keen ability to generate innovative ideas and solutions backed by empirical data. His expertise lies in data governance, financial crimes compliance, risk management, cloud transformation, and the successful adoption of cutting-edge technologies to drive business growth and operational efficiency.

Andreas Schmitz has been at the forefront of revolutionizing the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) landscape as the Managing Director of CRISAM. Leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence technologies (CRISAM.AI), Andreas brings over a decade of expertise in risk management, finance, and technology. His innovative approach has transformed enterprise risk management into a strategic asset, driving value for international companies and setting new standards in the industry.

Dan DeRosa is a marketing and product management leader for enterprise software.  He joined Archer as chief marketing officer in early 2024, and is working on advancing Archer’s compliance and risk solutions, and next generation risk management platform.

Dan’s career spans several enterprise software and services sectors including cyber and information security, facilities and asset management, credit and risk management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, human capital management, and telecommunications.

In addition to Archer, Dan has worked at Eptura, Revalize, BeyondTrust, SecureWorks, FIS, Sage Software, ADP, D&B and AT&T.  Dan started his career at NYNEX Business Systems in 1989.

Bobby Thomas is a seasoned Risk Management Professional with nearly 2 decades of extensive experience primarily in the insurance industry specialising in Risk Management, Internal Process Controls and Analytics.

He has primarily been with the Prudential Group in India (ICICI Prudential) where he was Vice President – Operational Risk before moving to Prudential Assurance Company Singapore as the Head of Risk Analytics and then moving as an Innovation Lead. In his current role, he is the Head of Governance and Analytics, Strategic Partnerships, Regional Technology with Prudential Corporation Asia. His passion lies in Risk mitigation and control using Technology and Analytics. In his last role in Innovation, he worked on solutions with various Fintech partners across the globe to identify best in class solutions.
By way of education, Bobby is an :

• MBA
• PG in Enterprise Management
• PG in Cyber Laws
• PG in Intellectual Property Rights
• ILPSE – INSEAD Leadership Program for Senior Executives
• CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor

Bobby is also an ICICI Group Leadership Award winner and a subject matter expert in areas of Risk Management where he shares his knowledge on the subject with various external bodies as well

Maryam is a Senior Research Specialist at Chartis, focusing on quantitative methods in financial risk management – including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Maryam has been the lead analyst and author of a variety of industry and thought leadership reports, including insurance risk systems, asset and liability management and credit risk analytics. She also works on risk-aware accounting and governance risk and compliance (GRC) – focusing on model risk management (MRM). Maryam has been involved with a variety of Business - Technology strategy projects and other types of consulting work. Maryam has experience using statistical software, machine learning libraries, Python and MATLAB. She also specializes in graphics production and visualizations. Maryam holds a first-class BA Honours from the London School of Economics and an MSc in computation and cognition with distinction from Birkbeck, University of London. Maryam also has a certificate in Risk in Financial Services from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Other areas of interest include computer vision research, rule-based symbol systems, neural computation and cognitive modeling.

Julia is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, CEO of Data4Real, LLC, a Board Advisor to several startups and Chair of Technology Advisory Council of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA). 

She is a recognized thought leader in data driven digital transformation with over 25 years of experience in building technology and business capabilities that enable business growth, innovation, and agility. Julia has led transformational initiatives in many financial services companies such as Voya Financial, Deutsche Bank Citi, FINRA, Freddie Mac, and others. 

Julia is a much sought-after speaker and mentor in the industry, and she has received recognition across the industry for her significant contributions. She has been named to engatica 2023 list of World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators; received 2022 WLDA Changemaker in AI award; has been named to CDO Magazine’s List of Global Data Power Women three years in the row; named Top 150 Business Transformation Leader by Constellation Research in 2019; and recognized as the Best Data Management Practitioner by A-Team Data Management Insight in 2017.

She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University.   

Nicole is a Data Scientist & Quantitative Researcher currently working as Chief AI Officer & Head of Quantitative Research at quantmate. Alongside her roles in this organization, she also serves as an AI consultant, leading workshops and guiding companies from AI concept to deployment. As a guest lecturer, Nicole shares her expertise in Python, machine learning, and deep learning at various universities. She is a frequent speaker at AI and Quantitative Finance conferences and events. She is the author of Mathematics for Machine Learning with NLP and Python and Transformers in Action with Manning Publications, and the author of the (forthcoming) book Transformers: The Definitive Guide by O’Reilly Media.

Nick is research specialist focusing on the Financial Crime and Fraud markets. Nick joined Chartis from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, where he led the Insight function delivering strategic research and intelligence in the Fields of Financial Crime, Payments, Fraud and Cybercrime.

Prior to LNR, Nick had In a 15-year career across Banking, Government, Payments and Private Equity leading research, analytics and strategic planning teams.

Nick’s career in banking and finance across Barclays, Lloyds and RBS, has exposed him to a broad range of focus areas including Treasury Services, Retail, Corporate and Private banking with focus on growth, international expansion, transformation and risk. Through his varied career and educational background in Economics and Management Nick adopts a macro-to-micro approach to problem diagnostics and solution.

Annegret is a Senior Manager in PwC UK’s Financial Crime practice focusing on helping organisations modernise financial crime prevention and detection through better use of data and advanced analytics such as machine learning.

Over the past decade, Annegret has advised tier-1, non-bank FI and fintechs on the adoption of new and emerging technologies across Anti-Money-Laundering, Know-Your-Customer, Investigations and Fraud. Most recently and prior to joining PwC, Annegret acted as Director of Production Solutions and interim Head of Financial Crime developing machine learning-based transaction monitoring and real-time fraud detection.

Jess is an experienced communications and strategy professional with a particular interest in corporate intelligence and how technology can enhance and transform working practices and outputs.

Jess currently leads Xapien’s communications and marketing strategy. Xapien is an automated background research platform used by any organisations which needs to distil decision-ready insights from the vast and ever-expanding information space. She has hands on experience of using the tool from her former role at international strategic communications company C|T Group where she specialised in complex open source intelligence investigations for corporate and government clients. 

During her seven years in strategic communications, Jess developed experience of all stages of political and corporate campaigns, from research and analysis to strategy development, coordination, implementation, and engagement. Her work has supported clients in complex disputes, investigations and litigation. She has worked on African, Middle Eastern, European and Latin American-focused projects.

Jess speaks fluent French, has a degree in Philosophy and French from the University of Oxford. 

Curt is the Chief Technology Officer at SS&C for Algorithmics and Blue Prism. In this role, he leads the R&D for SS&C’s award-winning risk management, intelligent automation, and business process management solutions.  Currently, Curt’s teams are focused on three key themes: cloud, performance, and enhanced user experiences.  Curt holds an MBA in Financial Engineering from MIT and a BA with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University. 

SAS

SAS is a global leader in AI and analytics software, including industry-specific solutions. No matter how your financial institution prioritizes risk, SAS has proven methodologies and best practices to help you establish a risk-aware culture, optimize capital and liquidity, and meet regulatory demands.

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Oracle Financial Services provides a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to empower financial institutions with advanced applications for customer relationship management, product innovation, finance modernization, integrated balance sheet management, risk mitigation, financial crime and anti-money laundering, and regulatory compliance, enabling them to deliver exceptional customer experiences while optimizing operational efficiency and driving growth in today's dynamic market. To learn more, please visit the link below.

• Overview 
• Risk and Finance 
• Financial Crime & Compliance 

FIS is a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions for financial institutions, businesses and developers. We improve the digital transformation of our financial economy, advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests. We provide the confidence made possible when reliability meets innovation, helping our clients run, grow and protect their business. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500®. For more information, visit www.fisglobal.com.

Ranked # 5 and Category award winners for: Regulatory Reporting: Markets and Securities

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, banks, brokers, and exchange operators as they navigate and interact with the global capital markets and the broader financial system. We aspire to deliver world-leading platforms that improve the liquidity, transparency, and integrity of the global economy. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, exchange capabilities, and client-centric services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on X @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com. 

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Ranked # 17 and Category award winners for: Customer Satisfaction and Model Risk Quantfication

Prometeia is a global provider of consulting services and software solutions focused on Enterprise Risk & Performance Management. Tech proposition, quantitative advisory, training and economic research: this distinctive mix of services has made Prometeia a leading company in Europe for Risk and Wealth management solutions, business consulting and advisory services for institutional investors. Prometeia’s approach to Enterprise Risk Management is based on the development of quantitative models and data science methodologies. The production of highly specialized software applications leverages leading technologies, the knowledge of our matter experts and our ability to respond to growing regulatory demands, as confirmed by the award in the Customer Satisfaction segment in the RiskTech100 2025.

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PwC provides services across Audit and Assurance, Advisory and Tax. We bring a range of capabilities to help organizations solve faster, solve more and realize more value. These capabilities include cloud and digital, deals, ESG, cybersecurity and privacy, governance/boards, risk, transformation, and much more. Across our global network of nearly 328,000 professionals in 152 countries, we are committed to advancing quality in everything we do.

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Regnology

Regnology is a leading technology firm on a mission to bring safety and stability to the financial markets. With an exclusive focus on regulatory reporting and more than 35,000 financial institutions, 70 regulators, international organizations, and tax authorities relying on our solutions to process their regulatory reporting data, we are uniquely positioned to bring greater data quality, efficiency, and cost savings to all market participants. With over 900 employees across the world and a unified data ingestion model powering our work, our clients can swiftly implement and derive value from our solutions and stay ahead of regulatory changes. Established in 2021 through the merger of BearingPoint RegTech and Vizor Software, Regnology is rapidly growing into a leading global regulatory reporting powerhouse.

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Ranked # 26 and Category award winners for: Credit Data: SME

Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, enables companies around the world to improve their business performance. Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud fuels solutions and delivers insights that empower customers to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate risk, and transform their businesses. Since 1841, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity. For more information on Dun & Bradstreet, please visit here.

Ranked # 27 and Category award winners for: Evaluated Pricing and Data: OTC Derivatives

LSEG is one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news and index products to more than 40,000 customers in over 170 countries. We help organizations fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs by partnering with customers at every point in the trade lifecycle: from informing their pre-trade decisions and executing trades to raising capital, clearing and optimization. Backed by more than three centuries of experience, innovative technologies and a team of 25,000 people in over 60 countries, we are driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling you to grow sustainably.

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Ranked #30 and award wins for: CLM (Investor Services), CLM (Markets), and KYC Solutions

Fenergo enables financial institutions and corporates to accelerate business growth through AI-powered solutions for client lifecycle management, KYC and onboarding. It enables firms to digitalise interactions with clients, transforming the overall user experience. It helps companies do business safely by continuously monitoring risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.

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Ranked # 32 and Category award winners for: Financial Crime: Enterprise Fraud
 

Feedzai is the world’s first Risk Operations (RiskOps) provider and a global leader in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. Our industry-recognized technology serves some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Powered by advanced machine learning, Feedzai safeguards trillions of dollars in transactions worldwide, protecting businesses and individuals from fraud and financial crime. Our comprehensive solutions offer a suite of features, including real-time fraud scoring, behavioral analytics, and compliance management tools that empower businesses to make informed 

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Crisil is a global, insights-driven analytics company. Our extraordinary domain expertise and analytical rigor help clients make mission-critical decisions with confidence. Large and highly respected firms partner with us for the most reliable opinions on risk in India, and for uncovering powerful insights and turning risks into opportunities globally. We are integral to multiplying their opportunities and success. Headquartered in India, Crisil is majority owned by S&P Global. Founded in 1987 as India’s first credit rating agency, our expertise today extends across businesses: Crisil Ratings, Crisil Intelligence, Crisil Coalition Greenwich and Crisil Integral IQ. Our globally diverse workforce operates in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, setting the standards by which industries are measured.

For more information, visit Crisil.com

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Ranked #44

MCO (MyComplianceOffice) provides integrated compliance management software that enables global financial services firms to operate efficiently, ethically, and compliantly. With 25+ products on a single system, the powerful MyComplianceOffice platform lets compliance professionals demonstrate that they are proactively managing compliance obligations and the regulated activities of employees, the company and third parties.   

1400+ client companies across 105+ countries use MyComplianceOffice to reduce the risk of misconduct and effectively oversee compliance obligations. With MCO, compliance teams can rest assured that they have a cost-effective and efficient framework in place to simplify compliance operations, stand up to regulatory scrutiny and protect the reputation of the firm. 

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Ranked #45 and Award Win for Risk as a Service

RiskSpan is a leading provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions for structured finance, mortgage, and private credit investors. Its cloud-native Edge Platform is a one-stop analytics solution enabling investors and dealers to confidently make faster, more precise trading and portfolio risk decisions, share data in real time with business partners, and meet reporting requirements with fewer resources and less time spent managing multiple vendors and internal solutions.

RiskSpan is committed to understanding and responding to its clients’ evolving data and analytics needs by providing innovative solutions and support they can depend on today and in the future.

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Empyrean Solutions is a leading software and services provider dedicated to solving the complexities of risk management, strategic planning, and profitability for financial institutions at every level. Led and built by financial practitioners with decades of experience, Empyrean’s market-leading cloud-based technology empowers bankers to navigate their financials with confidence, enabling them to better serve their stakeholders and communities.

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Ranked #60

Mirai RiskTech is the global technology leader in Balance Sheet Management, Financial Risk and Regulation. We offer a comprehensive, award-winning portfolio of cloud-native solutions and consulting services that enable banks to shorten the path to success in risk management and regulatory compliance.

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Ranked #72

ElysianNxt specializes in integrated risk management for the banking book, with a strong emphasis on credit risk. ElysianNxt’s continuously evolving real-time platform provides a fully integrated, end-to-end solution that spans all risk types, while ensuring robust data management, data quality, and data lineage, in full compliance with BCBS 239 principles.

The company’s primary focus is on addressing three key challenges faced by their clients: reducing information delays, lowering total cost of ownership, and enabling seamless execution of simulations and stress tests.

ElysianNxt's robust real-time RegTech platform supports a fully integrated workflow. This capability, combined with comprehensive risk infrastructure for the banking book, has earned ElysianNxt recognition as one of the top 100 risk technology companies.

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Ranked #74

While others fear risk, we embrace it. For over 20 years, Protecht has redefined the way people think about risk management. Through our people, we enable smarter risk taking by our customers to drive their resilience and sustainable success. We help our customers increase performance and achieve strategic objectives through better understanding, monitoring and management of risk. We provide a complete solution of world-class risk management, compliance, training, advisory and consulting services to businesses, regulators and governments across the world. With our flagship Protecht ERM SaaS platform you can dynamically manage all your risks in a single place: risks, compliance, incidents, KRIs, vendor risk, IT and cyber risk, internal audit, operational resilience, business continuity management, workplace safety, and more.

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Scila

Scila, a dynamic Stockholm-based fintech company, is making waves in the global financial markets. With a presence in Europe, North America, Asia, and the MENA region, we've achieved rapid success and profitability since our founding in 2008. Our independence from trading venues, investment banks, brokers, and regulators fuels our laser focus on cutting-edge product development. With offices in Stockholm, Chicago and Singapore, we're expanding our reach and empowering clients worldwide.

Our high-performance systems are designed to meet the diverse needs of the market, with the ability to:

• Identify 200+ patterns in real time
• Analyze 150+ billion transactions daily
• Examine data at 3,000,000+ transactions per second
• Operate in 30+ countries

At Scila, we're committed to delivering solutions that simplify the complexities of the financial world, giving our clients the confidence to succeed.

Opensee

Opensee is a leading technology company that provides financial institutions with a real-time self-service data management and data analytics platform, run on any cloud, on-premises, or hybrid cluster. Created by capital markets experts, Opensee's solutions cover a wide range of risk, finance, and trade use cases. With unrivaled time to value and performance/cost ratio by combining high-performance computing with AI, Opensee allows banks, asset managers, and hedge funds to build any size domain-specific data referentials, setting a new bar for hyper-fast aggregations, calculations, and simulations across any data volume and model complexity.

Ranked # 86 and Category award winners for: Managed Services: Market Risk

Vector Risk is a global leader in providing high-performance analytics on hosted cloud technology. The analytics include VAR, FRTB SA, PFE, xVA and SACCR. While many organizations have done a "lift and shift" of legacy software onto the cloud, Vector Risk built a native cloud solution to take advantage of the new delivery, support, and upgrade capabilities. As a result, our analytics have been recognized through awards and the backing of global partners. We have deployments in cloud data centres in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia to support our existing customers.

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Ranked #88

Acies provides cutting-edge software for the risk management, finance, treasury, compliance, and audit functions of financial institutions. Acies’ solutions cover financial risk, non-financial risk, IFRS, model risk, compliance and analytics, making it one of the most comprehensive software product portfolios in the market.

Acies’ software products are built on Revolutio, its proprietary no-code platform, offering unprecedented system configurability and empowering end-users with fully no-code data management, modeling, and BI capabilities. Its solutions are designed specifically to meet the high-speed compute needs of modern organizations, delivering complex what-if analysis, scenarios, and simulations in minutes rather than hours.

Acies works with leading institutions in the US, Middle East, ASEAN and South Asia, delivering award-winning risk and finance transformation programs that have been recognized by Risk.NET, AsiaRisk and RegulationAsia.

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Ranked # 96 

Encompass enables fast, accurate identity validation and verification of corporate customers, and a gold standard approach to KYC. Our award-winning corporate digital identity (CDI) platform and innovative solutions incorporate real-time data and documents from authoritative global public data sources and private customer information, to create and maintain digital risk profiles.

Utilizing the expertise of a global transformation team of KYC and banking industry experts, and strategic data, technology and consulting partnerships, enables seamless integration into existing workflows and systems. With Encompass the world’s leading banks improve customer experience and increase business opportunities through consistent regulatory compliance and risk mitigation.

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Credit Benchmark fills a critical information gap by offering a timely, comprehensive and independent view of credit risk. Derived from the contributed risk views of 40+ major banks globally, the dataset covers 110,000+ unique entity-level consensus credit ratings, as well as credit transition matrices, sector correlations, credit indices and other analytics.

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Yields is an international technology company providing an award-winning SaaS suite for financial institutions to stay in control of their models. The modular and model agnostic solution empowers firms to oversee, test and document their models at scale while ensuring full reproducibility and auditability.

Leading global and local firms have successfully deployed the Yields MRM Suite to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of their model development and validation activities. Yields is backed by renowned investment firms including investors Volta Ventures, Pamica NV, and G+D Ventures.

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Smarbl is a leading RegTech company that specializes in providing innovative, cloud-based, regulatory reporting and compliance solutions for the financial sector. Our flagship product, SmartReg is scalable across multiple regulators and empowers financial institutions to stay compliant, reduce operational risks, and adapt quickly to regulatory changes.

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