ACA

What ACA does

ACA is a Paris-headquartered firm operating in the financial services compliance and regulatory advisory domain, founded in 1989 and employing between 101 and 250 staff. The detailed source material consistently describes ACA as a financial compliance and regulatory consulting firm serving regulated financial institutions, though the firmographic summary classifies the business as a "software publisher in finance and banking," reflecting an unresolved classification in the underlying data. The only documented operating history event is the 2018 acquisition of Cordium, a compliance and regulatory services firm that was retained as a wholly-owned subsidiary focused on regulatory compliance work, suggesting ACA built out its service platform through inorganic means at least once.

The available data does not disclose specific products, technology platforms, proprietary software, integrations, or AI/ML capabilities. Cordium is described in terms of its compliance services focus rather than as a technology product, and no product catalogue, pricing model, contract structure, customer counts, or named customer logos are surfaced in the input. Consequently, the technical surface of the business cannot be characterised from evidence; ACA's "what it builds" is effectively limited to its advisory service delivery and its wholly-owned Cordium subsidiary.

On business model and go-to-market, the input again provides limited detail: no pricing models, public pricing disclosures, revenue figures, segment mix, distribution channels, or marketing channels are available. The firm is private with no disclosed funding rounds and no parent company. Revenue is unstated, and customer concentration cannot be assessed because no customer list, segment split, or contract-value data is supplied. As a result, the revenue model is best characterised qualitatively as a professional-services firm monetising compliance and regulatory expertise to financial-sector clients, with no evidence of subscription, licensing, or transactional revenue mechanics in the supplied data.

Name

ACA

Legal name

ACA

Website

https://aca.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

ACA is a Paris-based private firm founded in 1989 that delivers financial compliance and regulatory advisory services to regulated institutions, and which expanded its platform through the 2018 acquisition of Cordium.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

ACA is a software publisher serving the finance and banking sector, providing financial compliance and regulatory services. The firm expanded its capabilities in 2018 through the acquisition of Cordium, a compliance and regulatory services firm. ACA operates as a private company headquartered in Paris, France, with 101-250 employees.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ACA Compliance and Regulatory Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Regnology: Regnology (formerly BearingPoint RegTech) is a Frankfurt-based regulatory reporting and supervisory technology vendor serving banks, insurers, and regulators across Europe. It competes head-to-head with ACA in regulatory and compliance software for financial services.
• Workiva: Workiva is a cloud platform for regulatory reporting, ESG, audit, and risk/compliance used by thousands of enterprises including financial institutions. It is a direct comparable in software-enabled regulatory and compliance reporting for banks and large enterprises.
• BearingPoint: BearingPoint is a European management and technology consultancy with a strong financial-services regulatory and compliance practice. It competes with ACA on both consulting mandates and technology-enabled regulatory solutions for European banks.
• Cegid: Cegid is a leading French publisher of finance, HR, payroll, ERP, and retail software used by hundreds of thousands of European SMBs and mid-market firms. As a domestic French software publisher with a finance vertical, it is a natural adjacent peer for ACA in the French finance-and-banking software market.
• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria is a major French-headquartered IT services and software group with deep financial-services regulatory and digital transformation offerings. It is a direct regional peer for ACA in French and European banking compliance work.
• Sword Group: Sword Group is a France/Luxembourg-based technology and consulting firm with a dedicated Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) practice serving financial institutions. Its GRC software and services portfolio closely mirrors ACA's compliance/regulatory positioning for European banks and financial firms.

Broad incumbents

• Capgemini: Capgemini is a global consulting, technology, and digital services leader with a large Financial Services practice covering regulatory compliance, risk, and data. It is a broad incumbent whose financial-services regulatory work overlaps with ACA's compliance/regulatory positioning.
• Temenos: Temenos is a global banking software vendor offering core banking, regulatory, and risk/compliance solutions to banks worldwide. As a broad banking-software incumbent, it overlaps with ACA in the regulatory and compliance layer of the banking technology stack.
• Sage: Sage is a major UK-headquartered (with strong French presence) accounting, payroll, and finance software publisher serving SMBs and mid-market firms. It is a broad incumbent comparable to ACA in the European finance-and-banking software market, though focused on accounting rather than regulatory compliance.
• Wolters Kluwer: Wolters Kluwer's OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting and Compliance Suite serves global financial institutions with regulatory reporting, risk, and compliance software. It is a scaled incumbent in the same regulatory/compliance category ACA operates in, with much broader geographic and product reach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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