CUBE acquires Acin to launch integrated risk and compliance solution

By Vriti Gothi

CUBE, a UK-based RegTech, acquired Acin, an AI-powered operational risk platform based in London.

The acquisition enhances CUBE’s technology stack and market positioning, introducing new capabilities such as automated control-to-regulation mapping, full traceability, and anonymised industry-wide benchmarking. These advancements accelerate the vision of seamless, intelligent compliance, giving financial institutions a competitive edge in an increasingly complex global regulatory environment.

CUBE’s expanded offering, powered by Acin’s AI and analytics engine, will allow customers to digitise and automate key elements of their non-financial risk frameworks. The solution provides a data-driven controls network that enables peer benchmarking, best-practice sharing, and industry-aligned risk calibration while preserving complete data privacy and integrity.

By integrating regulatory data intelligence with operational risk analytics, financial institutions will gain the tools to enhance governance, reduce overheads, and future-proof compliance infrastructures in real time.

This acquisition is supported by banks including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Lloyds Banking Group. The initiative aims to raise risk standards across the industry, promote responsible AI adoption, and drive down the total cost of compliance through shared intelligence.

This acquisition follows a year of significant expansion for CUBE, with recent acquisitions including Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, Oden, and RegRoom. The addition of Acin reinforces CUBE’s position as the go-to partner for digital compliance transformation.

Ben Richmond, CUBE’s Founder & CEO, said, “This is a significant step forward in how financial services firms across the globe can take a truly integrated approach to their compliance and risk management. Since the founding of CUBE fifteen years ago, we’ve become recognised for the transformational solutions we’ve delivered in compliance. We’ll now build on this by connecting the first and second lines of defence with a whole new end-to-end capability, which at its core will be the best of what AI can deliver for transformation.”

Paul Ford, Founder of Acin, said “Acin has seen first-hand the shared commitment of addressing operational risk from leaders within the industry. By joining forces with CUBE, our platform will continue to grow and deliver even greater value to both our existing customers and CUBE’s global client base, while shaping the future of our industry. We are delighted to be part of this next era and excited about the increased value CUBE and Acin can deliver to customers in one unified platform.”