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Opus Global, Compliance and Risk Leader, Acquires Alacra

by Corporate Compliance Insights
September 30, 2015
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Opus Global, Compliance and Risk Leader, Acquires Alacra

Adds Leading Anti-Money Laundering and ‘Know Your Customer’ Capabilities to Leading SaaS-Based Compliance Platform

New York and Palo Alto, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Opus Global, a leading provider of SaaS-based compliance solutions, today announced that it has acquired Alacra, Inc., a leading provider of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Reference Data business information solutions.

The integration of Alacra into Opus Global will create an unmatched combination of compliance data with third-party management excellence and network-based information exchange. Alacra’s 170+ external providers will be able to integrate compliance data into Opus Global’s Hiperos Third Party Network. Opus Global expects to extend the Hiperos Network to hundreds of thousands of third parties and their customers currently managed through Hiperos software.

Alacra is a world leader in KYC, AML and Reference Data services for regulatory compliance. It is the second company to be acquired by Opus Global, following the July 2014 acquisition of third-party management leader Hiperos, LLC. Opus Global was co-founded by GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm, and Doug Bergeron, former CEO of VeriFone. The firm is investing up to $500 million to realize its vision of an integrated SaaS platform delivering world-class compliance faster, better and at lower total cost.

“Alacra is a superb addition to Opus Global,” said Doug Bergeron, CEO and founder of Opus Global. “Alacra’s AML and KYC strengths perfectly complement our existing anti-bribery/anti-corruption capabilities. KYC has become one of the greatest compliance challenges facing financial institutions today. Rapid on-boarding is vital to growing their businesses, yet the process has become increasingly onerous and unwieldy. Financial institutions need high-quality client data delivered rapidly and processed accurately. Alacra does that better than anyone, with a blue-ribbon client roster that includes many of the world’s biggest and most prestigious banks.”

Mr. Bergeron will assume the role of Executive Chairman of Alacra. Co-founders Steve Goldstein and Michael Angle will continue to serve in their existing roles.

“Alacra combined with our existing Hiperos product offering will enable us to further our innovation of new compliance product offerings not currently available in the market,” Bergeron continued. “Compliance will become more powerful, more manageable and easier for our customers as a result.”

“Our growing third-party ecosystem is fueled by the integration of best-of-breed data, service providers and partners. It will turbo-boost the Hiperos Third Party Network on which our ecosystem is based, further catalyzing growth in third parties and compliance traffic across the network,” Bergeron added.

“We are very excited to become part of Opus Global,” said Steve Goldstein, CEO and co-founder of Alacra. “We look forward to being an integral part of their strategy to build a world-leading compliance platform. Customers will be the big winners, with faster, easier access to world-class compliance data and more ways to utilize it quickly and effectively in their compliance programs.”

“The pressure on banks to improve KYC processes is ongoing. There has been a growing need for leading-edge technology to make this achievable, and Alacra provides the needed market solution. Our decision to join Opus Global provides the platform and resources to accelerate growth by further penetrating existing markets, exploring new geographies and markets and innovating new products and services,” Goldstein added.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Alacra has offices in New York and London, adding to existing Opus Global offices in Palo Alto, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Branchburg, New Jersey. Marlin & Associates acted as exclusive financial and strategic advisor to Alacra.

About Alacra
Alacra develops workflow applications that enable 300,000 end users at over 200 financial institutions, professional service firms and corporations to find, organize, analyze and present mission-critical business information. With nearly 175 unique databases available to our clients, Alacra has under license the largest collection of premium business information in the world. These databases are incorporated into configured solutions that bring an efficient, consistent and thorough process to client on-boarding, client screening, vendor risk management and front-office business research. By combining licensed and web-based content, Alacra also provides a range of entity reference data solutions that enable our clients to maintain extremely accurate legal entity data and meet global regulatory requirements. For more information, please visit http://www.alacra.com.

About Opus Global
Opus Global is a compliance platform provider headquartered in Palo Alto, California, created through a $500 million partnership between GTCR, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, and Doug Bergeron, former CEO of VeriFone. Through direct investments and targeted acquisitions, Opus Global’s mission is to build the world’s leading compliance platform by integrating leading technology solutions addressing the increasingly complex compliance requirements and risks faced by companies across all industries. Opus Global seeks to be a long-term partner to its customers, delivering significant value to their businesses through superior software solutions and related services. For more information about Opus Global, please visit http://www.opusglobal.com.


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