Global Economics Group

What Global Economics Group does

Global Economics Group (GEG) is a Chicago-based, privately held advisory firm founded in 2008 that provides professional services across three practice areas: financial services consulting (regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes compliance, capital/credit/treasury management, and AI advisory), economic consulting (antitrust, contract damages, securities litigation, labor and employment, IP, and tax disputes), and business consulting (business valuation, CFO services, higher education consulting, and internal audit advisory). The firm serves financial institutions, private equity firms, higher education institutions, and small-to-medium businesses / family offices, deploying senior industry practitioners rather than junior pyramid staffing.

In parallel with its consulting practice, GEG has built a portfolio of three proprietary software products. RiskPulse is an agentic-AI platform for AML and financial-crime compliance that automates investigations, transaction monitoring, and SAR filing using generative AI, LLMs, and explainable-AI audit trails. FactorIQ, launched in August 2025, is an AI-driven analytics platform purpose-built for private equity that unifies fragmented finance, ERP, CRM, and operational data into real-time dashboards with predictive insights. CREDITSpective provides credit risk assessment and monitoring capabilities. All three products leverage shared AI/ML infrastructure spanning NLP, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and process automation.

GEG generates revenue through two mechanics: traditional professional-services fees for consulting engagements and enterprise subscription pricing for its SaaS products. Go-to-market is primarily direct enterprise sales led by senior practitioners, supplemented by industry-conference demos (notably ACAMS Las Vegas 2025 for RiskPulse), thought-leadership content marketing, and a recently announced strategic collaboration with Armstrong Wolfe. The firm is founder-led (Roger Hickey, Founder & CEO; John M. Keller, President), operates with a listed headcount of 1–10 supported by a large named-affiliate and advisory bench, and has not disclosed external institutional investment.

Name

Global Economics Group

Legal name

Global Economics Group

Website

https://globaleconomicsgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Global Economics Group is a Chicago-based advisory firm, founded in 2008, providing financial services, economic, and business consulting alongside three proprietary AI-powered SaaS products (RiskPulse, FactorIQ, CREDITSpective) for financial crime compliance, private equity analytics, and credit risk management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting Services

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Finance and Insurance (52)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Economic Research, Statistics & Policy Advisory (BPADAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

ESG Reporting, Disclosure & Regulatory Compliance (SFDR, EU Taxonomy, TCFD/ISSB) (FSAAALAK)

Keywords

• Economic consulting services
• Financial services consulting
• AML compliance software
• Private equity analytics
• Business valuation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Financial Services Consulting: Premium advisory services addressing regulatory, people, process, technology, and data issues impacting clients' ability to succeed, including regulatory compliance, risk, operations, finance and technology consulting.
2. Economic Consulting: Expert testimony and analysis for complex and often high-profile cases involving antitrust, competition policy, contract damages, intellectual property, labor and employment, securities litigation, and tax disputes.
3. Business Consulting: Comprehensive consulting services including business valuation, CFO services, higher education consulting, and internal audit advisory services.
4. RiskPulse SaaS: End-to-end AML risk assessment platform delivered as scalable SaaS, automating risk identification and residual risk analysis for financial institutions.
5. FactorIQ SaaS: AI-driven analytics platform for private equity, delivered as subscription-based SaaS with real-time dashboards and embedded AI/Machine Learning capabilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Global Economics Group is a premium advisory firm delivering financial services, economic, and business consulting services to enterprises, alongside three proprietary AI-powered SaaS products: RiskPulse (an agentic AI platform for AML and financial crime compliance investigations), FactorIQ (an analytics platform purpose-built for the private equity industry), and CREDITSpective (a credit and treasury risk management platform). The firm combines senior practitioner consulting expertise with scalable, subscription-based software for regulatory compliance, risk management, and operational analytics.

Product overview

Global Economics Group offers a portfolio of three distinct AI-powered products alongside its consulting services: RiskPulse (AI-powered AML investigations platform), FactorIQ (analytics platform for private equity), and CREDITSpective (credit management platform). These products leverage advanced AI and Machine Learning to deliver data-driven decision-making capabilities, differentiating the firm from traditional advisory firms. The products work as standalone solutions while also being supported by the firm's consulting expertise in financial services, economic consulting, and business consulting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CREDITspective: Credit risk analytics platform
• FactorIQ
• RiskPulse

Products and services

• RiskPulse RiskPulse is an end-to-end, scalable SaaS platform that automates complex AML and financial crime investigations using agentic AI and large language models. It automates risk identification, control effectiveness measurement, residual risk analysis, KYC onboarding checks, sanctions screening, and SAR filing for financial institutions, delivering real-time data-driven insights with explainable AI and transparent audit trails.
• FactorIQ FactorIQ is an AI-driven analytics SaaS platform purpose-built for the private equity industry that automates data collection across finance, ERP, CRM, and operational systems, delivering real-time standardized analytics, embedded ML benchmarking, trend detection, predictive insights, and enterprise-grade security for portfolio performance management.
• CREDITSpective CREDITSpective is a credit and treasury risk management platform providing comprehensive credit risk assessment and monitoring capabilities for financial institutions.
• Financial Services Consulting Advisory services addressing the regulatory, people, process, technology, and data issues impacting clients' ability to succeed, including AI strategy, GEG Accelerator, capital/credit/treasury management, customer experience, financial crimes compliance, regulatory compliance, and risk advisory for financial institutions.
• Economic Consulting Expert testimony and analysis for complex litigation and regulatory matters including antitrust and competition policy, contract damages, eDiscovery and analytics, forensic accounting and investigations, intellectual property, labor and employment, regulatory strategy and economic analysis, securities litigation, and tax disputes.
• Business Consulting Comprehensive business consulting including business valuation, CFO services (including fractional finance leadership), higher education consulting services, and internal audit advisory services for SMBs, family offices, and other organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Substantial reduction in manual workload and false positives for AML operations through RiskPulse automation
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Armstrong WolfenotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 August 2025Strategic collaboration to publish the whitepaper 'Solving the Data Completeness Challenge.' This cross-industry paper gathers insights from senior data leaders at DWS, Ninety One, BNY, and other top financial institutions, highlighting the vital role of data completeness as a foundation for effective governance, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness within financial services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Featurespace: AI-native fraud and AML risk-scoring platform serving banks and payments providers. Directly comparable to GEG's RiskPulse on the AML/financial crime compliance side, with overlapping adaptive behavioral analytics capabilities.
• ComplyAdvantage: AI-driven AML/KYC and sanctions screening platform serving banks, fintechs, and corporates. Competes with RiskPulse in the AML compliance space with overlapping AI-based detection and risk-scoring capabilities.
• Feedzai: AI-powered financial crime detection platform for AML, fraud, and compliance. Comparable to RiskPulse in target market (financial institutions), use cases (transaction monitoring, AML), and technology approach (generative AI/ML).

Direct peers

• Analysis Group: Premier economic and financial consulting firm providing expert testimony, antitrust, and regulatory economics — directly comparable to GEG's economic consulting practice in scope, client base (law firms, Fortune 500, regulators), and senior-professional delivery model.
• Compass Lexecon: Global economics consultancy focused on competition, regulation, and finance, with deep expert-witness capabilities. Directly comparable to GEG's economic consulting and expert-testimony offerings for complex legal and regulatory matters.
• Cornerstone Research: Economic and financial consulting firm providing expert testimony and analysis in complex litigation and regulatory matters. Directly comparable in the economic consulting niche, with a similar academic-affiliate talent model.
• Charles River Associates: Public management consultancy offering economic, financial, and strategic consulting to law firms, regulators, and corporations. Overlaps with GEG in antitrust, securities litigation, and financial services consulting, though at materially larger scale.
• NERA Economic Consulting: Global economic consulting firm specializing in antitrust, securities litigation, and regulatory economics. Closely comparable to GEG's economic and financial services consulting practice, with similar expert-witness and litigation-support offerings.

Broad incumbents

• NICE Actimize: Enterprise-scale AML, fraud, and financial-crime compliance platform from NICE. Represents the large incumbent competitor to RiskPulse with deep financial institution penetration, broader product portfolio, and significantly larger GTM footprint.
• FTI Consulting: Global business advisory firm with substantial economic consulting, forensic accounting, and financial services risk practices. Overlaps with GEG's economic and business consulting offerings at meaningfully larger scale and broader geographic footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2036703
• Xx.com/globalecon
• Facebookfacebook.com/global-economics-group-155582004497594

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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