SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering specialist using electronic entity verification, has named Guy Harrison as CEO with responsibility to drive the company’s strategic growth plan. Harrison joins from Dow Jones, where he was general manager of the company’s risk and compliance business. He takes over the CEO role from SmartSearch CEO and founder John Dobson, who launched the business in 2011 and will remain with the company as a non-executive director.
A-Team Insight People
SmartSearch Appoints Former Dow Jones Executive as CEO
Related content
WEBINAR
Recorded Webinar: Client onboarding and KYC: the data management challenges
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording by registering here. Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are imperative to regulatory compliance and building competitive advantage, but how much progress is the industry making in transitioning onboarding from a disjointed process run across many functions to an holistic operation spanning the...
BLOG
Tractiv Raises $2.25 Million to Build Out Tracking Solution to Aid Regulatory Data Validation
Chicago-based data usage monitoring and tracking specialist Tractiv, founded in 2020 under the name TradeX, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding to expand its engineering and sales teams. At the same time, the company has added Mark Almeida, to its board of directors. Almeida is Limited Partner Advisor at Nyca Partners – which led...
EVENT
Data Management Summit Boston (Redirected)
As investment management firms take on more responsibility and control over core operational functions, A-Team has seen demand for a more buy-side oriented event focused on data and data management. The inaugural DMS Boston will take place in June 2020, and will focus on topics of interest to buy-side practitioners.
GUIDE
The Global LEI System – Slow but Sure
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...