Kaizen

We are thrilled to announce that Kaizen has received a £42 million minority growth investment from Guidepost Growth Equity, a Boston-based growth equity firm that partners with entrepreneur-led technology companies.   Kaizen has established itself as a trusted partner to the world’s largest and most sophisticated financial firms to ensure accurate, complete, and timely reporting in an increasingly challenging regulatory environment, evidenced by strong revenue growth since inception. More recently we have diversified our product suite to include solutions for shareholding disclosures, regulatory rules management, trade and communications surveillance and research management.    The investment will be used to accelerate product development, invest in go-to-market initiatives, expand in North America, and enhance our award-winning compliance technology.   Guidepost have a great track record in helping firms reach their full potential. We're delighted to be partnering with Eugene Nogi and the rest of the Guidepost team.   A massive thank you to our incredible team of Kaizeners, our clients and partners for your continued support as we enter an exciting new chapter in our evolution.   Read our full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gg_Q8fdz #investment #RegTech #compliance #FinTech #technology #growth #innovation

Less than a week to go! We are looking forward to taking part in the Securities Finance Times Symposium on Tuesday 12 November in London.  Our Money Markets Director Jonathan Lee and his fellow panelists Farrah Mahmood Kevin McNulty, Ed Oliver and Jonathan T. will take an in depth look at the ever-shifting regulatory landscape, including SFTR and the SEC's 10c-1a SLATE reporting on the first panel of the day. Pop by our exhibition stand to speak to Andy Green and Robbie Tajsham to discuss how Kaizen can help your firm with its SFTR, SLATE and other securities finance obligations. #sftr #securitiesfinance #SLATE #moneymarkets

The Financial Conduct Authority has released Market Watch 81, which focuses on the root causes of transaction reporting. The UK regulator says that while data quality has improved, it continues to identify incomplete and inaccurate transaction reports. "We have seen data quality issues persist and reoccur even after the issue has been identified and allegedly remediated by a firm...Our findings indicate that reporting issues are often caused by weaknesses in change management, reporting process and logic design, data governance, control framework governance and oversight and resourcing." At Kaizen, our ReportShield quality assurance solutions are designed to directly address these issues, combining advanced technology with subject matter expert support, to give you and your senior management confidence that you are meeting the regulator's expectations. Contact us for a demo or for a conversation with one of our regulatory experts: https://lnkd.in/etSuDkK3 Read the latest Market Watch: https://lnkd.in/eKdBRZXY #fca #mifid #mifidii #mifir #transactionreporting #dataquality

Kaizen Receives £42 Million Growth Investment From Guidepost Growth Equity Dario Crispini, Founder and CEO, Kaizen commented: “We are delighted to be partnering with Guidepost as we enter a new chapter in our evolution. Guidepost has a great track record in helping firms reach their full potential and their investment and partnership will enable us to build and enhance our existing technology, deliver new compliance solutions, and drive our expansion into North America. The solutions we offer at Kaizen are designed to help our clients adhere to their compliance obligations in an efficient and cost-effective manner and we look forward to delivering more solutions that do just that.” https://lnkd.in/eYhEWPM2 Eugene Nogi James Dunseath Rory McLaren Fiona Wilde Joris Limousin Tamer Onder Andy Green James Deehan #fintech #finance #banking #paytech #payments #fintechnews #paymentsnews

We are delighted that Kaizen’s surveillance solution won 'Best Buy-side Market Surveillance Platform’ at this year’s WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology awards. This is the fifth WatersTechnology.com award that Kaizen has won in recent years, and we are particularly pleased that our new surveillance platform, which helps firms comply with market abuse regulations and record keeping rules, has been recognised for its contribution to the buy-side industry. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eZe9wjZa #marketabuse #marketmanipulation #tradesurveillance #communicationssurveillance #regtech #regulation #awards

First London, now Sydney! Hot on the heels of our efforts in London, Kaizen's representative in Australia, Andrew King joined more than 12,000 runners to complete the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in Sydney's Centennial Park last week. The 5.6km race is the world's largest corporate running event. Earlier this year 15 Kaizeners took part in the London race. Thank you and well done Andrew! 👏 🏃♂️ #JPMCC #JPMorganCorporateChallenge #sydney #charityrun

Congratulations to Kaizener Joseph Awonusi (pictured front, second from left) who represented Great Britain by playing American Football for the GB Men’s team against Sweden and Germany this month in the 2024/25 IFAF European Championship. Joseph is a data analyst in our SFTR assurance team. Well done Joseph, we are extremely proud of you!  👏 🏈   #americanfootball #TeamGB #kaizener

Hot off the press! Our North American Reporting Director, Alan McIntyre, reacts to the news that the ROC have published a consultation on Regulatory Reporting CDE guidance.

Kaizen’s EMIR Reporting Director, Tim Hartley spoke to Samuel Wilkes at Risk.net about how firms are dealing with backloading their EU EMIR Refit derivatives reporting following the go-live on 29 April. “What we’ve seen from speaking to trade repositories and looking at our own data is that roughly 75-80% of derivatives that were open before Refit went live have been updated, which sounds positive, but to get the other 20% updated. That's cutting it very fine to get those trades updated.” Read the full article here (subscription needed): https://lnkd.in/eq7ReTSK #EMIR #EMIRRefit #regulatorychange #regulatoryreporting #tradereporting #derivativesreporting #regulatorycompliance