Firm Expansion

The Network Expands With London Office

November 11, 2010

The Network, a provider of governance, risk and compliance solutions, has opened an office in London to accommodate growing demand for GRC solutions in Europe. The office, which will serve as the hub for The Network's European operations, is led by Paul Bates, director of European Union Sales."Organizations around the...
 

ACI Worldwide Expands in Spain

October 18, 2010

ACI Worldwide, an international provider of payments systems, announced that it has merged the services company ACI Soluciones, a previous joint venture between ACI and processor 4B, into ACI’s Spanish operations, to deliver more flexibility and choice to companies operating in the ever-changing Iberian and North African financial markets. “ACI...
 

Law Firm Adds New International Human Rights Compliance Group

August 20, 2010

The law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis announced that it has added an International Human Rights Compliance component to its White Collar Defense & Corporate Compliance Group.The addition springs from the increased need for multinational companies to assess market entry or ongoing business operations through a human rights...
 

Amper Merges With Eisner

August 17, 2010

Effective immediately, Eisner LLP, and Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP are combining to form EisnerAmper LLP. This combination aims to enhance the accounting firm's service capabilities by bringing in more experts and resources to EisnerAmper clients.This combination also expands the firm's exposure throughout the Northeast, serving clients from eleven locations...
 

Thomson Reuters Expands Tax & Accounting Business

July 08, 2010

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters announced a series of strategies designed to accelerate its global expansion by offering multinational corporations (MNCs) and the global accounting firms that serve them the most comprehensive and integrated solutions for their tax, accounting and financial reporting compliance lifecycle needs.Key to the...
 

Weaver Merges With Elms Faris

May 28, 2010

Weaver, an independent certified public accounting firm, announced its merger with consulting firm Elms Faris & Company, effective June 1. This marks the first expansion of Weaver into the Midland/Odessa, Ill., market.Elms Faris provides assurance, tax, estate planning, information technology consulting, business valuation, management consulting and transaction advisory services. Industries...
 

Weiser and Mazars Group Worldwide Form Partnership

April 07, 2010

Mazars, an international group specializing in audit and advisory services, and Weiser, an audit and advisory firm with a strong presence in the Northeast region of the United States, have announced plans to combine.Partners from both entities have voted to incorporate 74 Weiser partners into Mazars’ international integrated partnership. Reflecting...
 

Steptoe & Johnson Opens Beijing Office

March 15, 2010

International law firm Steptoe & Johnson has announced the new opening of its Beijing, China office.Steptoe advises companies doing business in and from China on a wide range of matters, including international trade, market access, export control, antitrust, and compliance with U.S. and European environmental, product safety, and other regulations....
 

Wolters Kluwer Creates New Business Unit

February 19, 2010

Wolters Kluwer, through its Financial & Compliance Services division, has announced the creation of a new business unit, ARC Logics, to help organizations across multiple industries address increasingly complex audit, risk, and compliance challenges.ARC Logics offers a broad suite of software and services that enable organizations to rapidly address evolving...
 

BPS Mergers With Resolver

January 07, 2010

Business Propulsion Systems and Resolver announced that they have merged to form BPS Resolver, effective as of Jan. 1. The merged company will be based in Toronto, Canada.This merger brings together two governance, risk, and compliance software product offerings. The new company’s combined offering will provide a complete product suite...
 

EMC Corporation to Acquire Archer

January 04, 2010

EMC Corporation, a global provider of information infrastructure solutions, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Archer Technologies, a privately-held provider of governance, risk, and compliance software.The combination of Archer with EMC's RSA Security Division will significantly extend EMC's powerful solutions portfolio for visualizing and managing...
 

Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Track Tweets

December 31, 2009

Social networking site Twitter announced that it has recently acquired geolocation services provider Mixer Labs to allow Twitter users to tag the location of where a message was written.Mixer Labs, a start-up company founded by two former Google employees, developed a location-tracking tool called GeoAPI. Developers will be able to...
 

Paladyne Systems to Expand to Asia

November 20, 2009

Paladyne Systems, a provider of technology and services to the global hedge fund industry, announced its continued global expansion with the opening of a Hong Kong office in response to an increasing demand for its hedge fund technology and services in the Asia Pacific region.As part of the move, Paladyne...
 

TravisWolff and Burnside & Rishebarger Merge

October 06, 2009

Travis Wolff & Co., a regional accounting and advisory firm, announced that it has merged with San Antonio-based Burnside & Rishebarger.The combined organization will operate as TravisWolff Independent Advisors & Accountants, representing approximately $25 million in annual revenue. The merger blends TravisWolff’s staff of 130 with Burnside & Rishebarger’s staff...
 

Wolters Kluwer Forms Alliance With eMagic

September 15, 2009

eMagic, an e-commerce subsidiary of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation, has announced that Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ initial home loan disclosures are now available from within the eMagic service fulfillment platform. The integration will provide eMagic’s mortgage lending customers with seamless, electronic access to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ VMP Mortgage Solutions...
 

Thomson Reuters to Acquire Abacus Software From Deloitte

September 14, 2009

Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Abacus Enterprise suite of products and related business operations from Deloitte.The Abacus suite of products helps corporations and their advisers plan, comply, and remit income taxes and value-added taxes. Based in London, the business offers software products to customers in...
 

Barroway Topaz Opens San Francisco Office

September 14, 2009

Securities class-action law firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check has opened a San Francisco office.“Our West Coast opening reflects our continued growth in representing institutional clients in shareholder, ERISA, and consumer class actions being litigated in California,” said Darren Check, a partner with Barroway Topaz. “In addition, a growing...
 

Reval Continues European Expansion

September 09, 2009

Reval, a provider of derivative risk-management and hedge accounting solutions and services, has announced further expansion into Central Europe, opening a German office and appointing Walter Schipper as Country Manager.With an already established presence, Reval considers Germany a high-growth market and a very strategic part of its European strategy of...
 

EMC to Acquire Kazeon Systems

September 08, 2009

EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire e-discovery software provider Kazeon Systems. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009, subject to customary closing conditions. With Kazeon, EMC will be able to offer end-to-end, in-house e-discovery...
 

Reval Acquires FXpress

August 28, 2009

Reval has acquired FXpress Corporation, a treasury software provider to the Fortune 1000. Clients will benefit from leveraging best practices from Reval’s global community of users on its single-version Software as a Service/Web-based platform.FXpress, founded in 1993, will remain operational under the name of Reval. Its flagship product, FIRST, automates...
 

Broadridge and DeltaConcept Announce Strategic Alliance

August 28, 2009

Broadridge Financial Solutions announced that it has launched a Switzerland-based strategic alliance with DeltaConcept, a global provider of integrated portfolio management solutions for financial institutions to offer a front-to-back integrated solution for private banks.The alliance enables Broadridge to offer enhanced portfolio management functionality to private banks and asset managers. DeltaConcept's...
 

Wolters Kluwer Acquires Stormwater Research Group

August 25, 2009

Wolters Kluwer Financial announced that it has acquired a substantial amount of assets from Austin, Texas-based Stormwater Research Group.Stormwater provides flood compliance solutions to the banking and mortgage industries, real estate development companies, insurance agencies, and other entities. Its products include basic and life of loan flood determination services. Stormwater...
 

Digital Reef, Anacomp Announce Technology Alliance

August 13, 2009

Digital Reef, developer of the first massively scalable unstructured data discovery and management platform, and Anacomp, a provider of litigation support and business process services and solutions, has announced a new technology alliance agreement. Through the partnership, Anacomp will leverage Digital Reef’s platform to offer advanced document connection, selection, reduction,...
 

Qualys, Archer Technologies Form Partnership

August 11, 2009

Qualys, a provider of on-demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, and Archer Technologies, a provider of enterprise governance, risk, and compliance solutions, have partnered to make QualysGuard vulnerability management and compliance data available to Archer’s Fortune 1000 clients.The integration of QualysGuard with Archer’s GRC platform—the Archer SmartSuite Framework—allows...
 

Wolters Kluwer Expands Compliance Offerings to U.K.

June 18, 2009

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has expanded its compliance offerings to include consulting solutions for the U.S. securities industry and financial institutions in the U.K.This new service was developed in response to requests from financial firms, which expressed a need for objective compliance experts who could not only help them understand...
 

Wolters Kluwer Expands Its Global Coverage

May 26, 2009

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has expanded its regulatory coverage to include the European Union and Middle East in an effort to help compliance officers monitor the regulatory developments in those regions.With more financial organizations operating on a global scale, keeping track of new regulation and guidance within the financial services...
 

Corporate Library Partners With Trucost

May 18, 2009

The Corporate Library, an independent source for corporate governance research and risk analysis, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Trucost, an environmental data provider. The new partnership will provide institutional investors with in-depth analysis of corporate environmental performance and corporate governance risk.The Corporate Library will offer clients...
 

New Financial Services Law Firm Opens

April 02, 2009

Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, two leading financial services enforcement and litigation attorneys formerly with Skadden, Arps, joined with financial services law firm Buckley Kolar LLP, to form the new firm, BuckleySandler LLP on March 20.BuckleySandler, with more than 50 experienced financial services and litigation lawyers, serves major financial services...
 

Reval Opens Hong Kong Office

March 31, 2009

Reval, a provider of derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions and services, has announced the opening of its Hong Kong office, and the appointment of Will Marsden as sales director, Asia. He will be based in Hong Kong.With 15 years experience in sales and sales management, Marsden joins Reval...
 

Broadridge Financial Solutions Joins With Oracle

March 18, 2009

Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced a strategic alliance with Oracle Financial Services Software to offer a comprehensive best practices compliance solution for financial institutions using Oracle Mantas. The alliance with Oracle Financial Services Software aims to assist clients with reducing the costs and complexities associated with compliance, while at the...
 

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