Riskonnect Partners with Compliance.ai to Drive Regulatory Change Management Excellence
February 26, 2020
Today, we are excited to announce our strategic partnership with Riskonnect at the RSA Conference. This partnership allows users to further organize, simplify and streamline their regulatory change management process by providing a feed of global regulatory changes on a regular basis.
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New platform integration enables risk and compliance managers to easily monitor, evaluate, and manage regulatory updates relevant to their business
SAN FRANCISCO – February 26, 2020 – Riskonnect, the leader in integrated risk management solutions, announced today at the RSA Conference that it has formed a new, strategic partnership with Compliance.ai, a regulatory change management company. The alliance will enable organizations to simplify and streamline their end-to-end compliance processes and bolster their ability to quickly address pertinent regulatory updates.
Compliance.ai’s best-in-class regulatory content and change management platform will be integrated into Riskonnect’s compliance solution, providing risk and compliance managers with a timely feed of domestic and global regulatory changes. Aggregated from over 720 sources, 110 document types, and 38 document attributes, the insights provide organizations a singular and real-time view of their unique compliance risk
“Organizations face hundreds of updates every day, which makes staying on top of regulatory changes tough for even the most diligent compliance teams. Companies need a clear and consistent way to monitor and address the updates most relevant to them and allocate the right resources,” said Kayvan Alikhani, CEO and Co-founder of Compliance.ai. “Our partnership with Riskonnect will make it easier for organizations to manage the growing volume, complexity, and velocity of regulatory change in real time.”
Compliance.ai’s unique, patented method of processing authoritative sources, which is powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, enables organizations to automate changes, classification, summarization, prioritization, and assignment of regulatory updates. The robust content and advanced monitoring and analysis capabilities equip professionals to better contextualize regulations, understand their impact, and make faster decisions related to compliance.
“We live in a world where change is the only constant. Effectively managing regulations and risk requires a dynamic, real-time strategy,” said Andrea Brody, chief marketing officer at Riskonnect. “Riskonnect’s compliance solution enables organizations to protect their business by streamlining the management of regulatory changes and clearly showcasing the relationships of these updates to the greater governance program. We’re excited to partner with Compliance.ai and give our customers even more insight and functionality to discover and manage regulatory changes and compliance issues.”
The partnership improves the capabilities and performance of Riskonnect’s offering and reinforces the company’s commitment to accelerating time-to-value through its strategic partner ecosystem.
Riskonnect is the leading integrated risk management software solution provider. Our technology empowers organizations with the ability to anticipate, manage, and respond in real-time to strategic and operational risks across the extended enterprise. More than 900 customers across six continents use our unique risk-correlation technology to gain previously unattainable insights that deliver better business outcomes. Riskonnect has more than 500 risk management experts in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. To learn more, visit www.riskonnect.com.
About Compliance.ai
Compliance.ai is transforming the way highly regulated organizations address compliance risk. Its financial regulatory change management solutions empower Chief Compliance Officers to proactively manage the growing volume and velocity of regulatory changes as they occur and make it simple to implement the correct steps to remain in compliance. Through its Expert-in-the-Loop methodology, Compliance.ai delivers relevant content with personalized insights, obligation analysis and risk assessment. With Compliance.ai, organizations can intelligently assess and mitigate their compliance risk, avoid regulatory sanctions and safeguard their corporate reputations – without increasing headcount.
Asif Alam is the Chief Executive Officer at Compliance.ai. A leader in shaping disruptive technology, his experience includes building products using AI and natural language processing for GRC, payments, lending, risk, trading, and new solutions, from Fortune 500 companies to startups.
In his most recent role, he served as the Chief Strategy Officer of ThoughtTrace, unlocking new revenue streams and markets, and reignite portfolio growth. ThoughTrace was then acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2021.
He brings more than 20 years of management and business experience; increasing profitability, unlocking new revenue streams and markets, and reignite portfolio growth for companies like Thomson Reuters, Crux Informatics, and Finastra. Asif is a forward-thinking expert driving engagement via client forums, public presentations, and white papers.
Cesar Lee is a Principal at WRV, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments in hardware, semiconductor, and other technology-related companies. Previously, he was an investment professional at Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused, late-stage venture capital, and private equity fund. He began his career at RBC Capital Markets, where he was part of the Mergers & Acquisitions group for two years and the Equity-linked & Derivatives group for one year. While at RBC, Cesar spent a majority of his time working on M&A advisory transactions for technology companies.
Cesar’s investment experience includes buyouts, later stage, early stage and seed rounds. Cesar has completed transaction in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia, and in technology sectors including data centers, software, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics, big data, and internet.
Maria Devassy is a RegTech, Content, and Technology leader with over 20 years of experience helping companies bridge the gap between technology, product, and business. Maria has held leadership positions with MetricStream, KPMG, Oracle Corporation, and other technology companies. She has launched several successful RegTech products, business partnerships, and advised Fortune 100 clients on risk management, audit, advisory, and compliance business across Industries.
Hugh Cadden is a recognized expert in derivative financial and trading markets including futures, options, and swaps. Hugh is currently a senior consultant and expert with OnPoint Analytics, Inc. an economic, finance and statistical consultancy specializing in expert testimony for complex litigation. He has been specializing in the organization, operation, and regulation of financial and trading markets for over 40 years. Hugh’s experience includes both the public and private sectors and he has held senior level positions with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission including serving as Director of the Division of Trading and Markets and Deputy Director of Enforcement. He has been qualified as an expert on financial and trading market matters before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Tax Court, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, National Futures Association, American Arbitration Association and federal courts.
Drake Ross is a former bank regulator who specialized in compliance with consumer protection regulations while at the OCC, FDIC, and OTS. While at these agencies, he provided extensive training and guidance and developed materials to ensure full comprehension and proper application of rules, laws, policies, and guidance, and served as a Subject Matter Expert in numerous areas. Because of his expertise, he often presented at agency and industry events. He also played a significant role in successful windup of the 2008 IndyMac Bank failure, where because of his extensive knowledge of the FDIC deposit insurance regulations, he was called upon to administer highly-complex insurance determinations.
Carliss Chatman is an Assistant Professor of Law teaching Contracts, Agency and Unincorporated Entities, Corporations, and Transactional Skills. Her work is influenced by over two decades of service on non-profit boards and involvement with community organizations. Through leadership positions, she has developed expertise in corporate governance and non-profit regulation. She has also been instrumental in strategic planning and fundraising efforts. Prior to law teaching, Professor Chatman was a commercial litigation attorney in Houston, Texas. In practice, she focused on trial law, appeals and arbitration in pharmaceutical, health care, mass torts, product liability, as well as oil, gas, and mineral law. In addition to negotiating settlements and obtaining successful verdicts, Professor Chatman has also analyzed and drafted position statements regarding the constitutionality of statutes and the impact of statutory revisions for presentation to the Texas Legislature.
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Mariam is an Operating Principal at Cota Capital. Mariam has experience providing guidance on strategic and operational planning to Venture and Growth stage companies. Prior to Cota Capital, Mariam spent her career in management consulting as a Director at KPMG. She has experience leading global transformation programs and developing innovative service offerings for Fortune 500 companies in the Technology sector. Mariam has an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson school of management with an emphasis in Finance and Entrepreneurship. She has a Bachelors in Science in Finance and a Bachelors in Science in Economics from Santa Clara University.
Chris Callison-Burch is an Associate Professor in Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include natural language understanding and crowdsourcing. He has served the Association for Computational Linguistics as the General Chair for the ACL 2017 conference, as an action editor for the Transactions of the ACL, as an editorial board member for the Computational Linguistics journal, and an officer for NAACL (the North American chapter of the ACL) and for SIGDAT (the special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to natural language processing)
Tom Ladt is an experienced executive and investor. Tom has lead and served on the boards of several public and private companies serving highly regulated industries such as technology, healthcare, real estate, and food processing. Tom has also served in key governmental roles and on numerous community boards.
Jeroen Plink is a global executive with a proven track record of developing and growing businesses, teams, and technologies with innovation and passion. Jeroen was CEO of Practical Law US during its acquisition by Thomson Reuters. He now serves on numerous boards and acts as a strategic consultants for start-ups.
Global Legal and Compliance executive with 15+ years of success in the SaaS technology and financial services industries. Partner to the CEO and executive team in corporate transactions, business development, product expansion, and regulatory navigation during periods of intense growth and organizational change. An advocate of effective risk management that starts with sound business practices and putting the customer first.
Richard Dupree has held multiple Risk, Compliance and Operations positions at regional, national, and global financial services firms including Wells Fargo, Silicon Valley Bank, Bank of the West and BNP Paribas. Rick currently advises FinTechs and RegTechs and sits on industry panels, contributes to industry whitepapers, thought leadership efforts, and speaks at industry seminars on Risk and Compliance challenges faced by banks and FinTechs.
Brian advises clients on legal and regulatory compliance in the financial, tech, and procurement sectors. His passion is helping businesses succeed in heavily regulated environments. As counsel and trusted advisor to businesses of all sizes, and as a former regulator, policymaker, and federal official, Brian acutely understands the unintended burdens that even well-intentioned government requirements can put on innovation and business growth, as well as how to create policies that strike the right balance.
Brian served as National Ombudsman in the Obama Administration, leading the federal Office of Regulatory Enforcement Fairness in assisting hundreds of startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in every industry and every state.
Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames is Managing Director of Strategy & Development at LRN, a leader in advising and educating organizations about ethics and regulatory compliance, as well as corporate culture, governance and leadership. With the focus of inspired behavior versus required behavior, LRN is a leading voice in the industry for companies to build ethical cultures instead of “check-the-box” compliance approaches. She’s advised Department of Justice corporate monitors on successful program transformation under CIAs (Corporate Integrity Agreements. With over 20 years of experience in leading multinational ethics and compliance strategies, Marsha has become a highly sought-after thought leader on leading Corporate Compliance and Ethics practices.
Carla Carriveau is currently the Senior Managing Counsel at Wealthfront, an automatic investment service firm in Redwood City, California. Carla was previously Senior Counsel, Division of Trading and Markets, at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. As a former regulator with over 15 years of experience in helping small businesses navigate legal and regulatory needs in the financial services sector, Carla advises Compliance.ai on financial services regulation, the regulatory landscape and industry practices.
