# Acin (acquired by CUBE)

> Acin is a London enterprise software company that turns banks' scattered descriptions of non-financial risks and controls into normalized data, then uses AI, expert review and anonymized peer benchmarking to show where a control framework is weak, duplicated or incomplete. Founded by former banking operator and consultant Paul Ford in 2018, it raised $36 million, won backing from five global banks and was acquired by regulatory-intelligence provider CUBE in June 2025 for an undisclosed price.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Paul Ford (Founder and former CEO; advisor after the CUBE acquisition)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists 51-200 employees; supplied company data estimates 210. Acin joined CUBE, which reported 700 employees across 20 countries at the time of acquisition.
- **Products:** Acin Platform / Acin Terminal, Acin Index and Industry Calibration, Risk Control Quality Enhancement and Rewrite Tool, Regulatory Mapping, Dynamic Risk Intelligence
- **Notable:** Built an operational-risk control network that Acin said included 14 of the world's largest banks by 2022., J.P. Morgan expanded the platform from a two-year pilot to its Global Markets business in 2021., Raised $36 million across Series A and Series B rounds before acquisition.

## Products & services

- **Acin Platform / Acin Terminal** — Cloud SaaS that ingests fragmented risk-and-control inventories, maps them into a common structure and provides a unified view with analytics and reporting.
- **Acin Index and Industry Calibration** — A submission-based, give-to-get network that benchmarks a firm's normalized controls against anonymized and aggregated peer data.
- **Risk Control Quality Enhancement and Rewrite Tool** — AI-assisted tooling that assesses, rewrites, creates and optimizes control descriptions, including detection of duplication and weak controls.
- **Regulatory Mapping** — Maps regulations and obligations to normalized processes, risks and controls, with peer context and gap identification.
- **Dynamic Risk Intelligence** — Alerts, scenarios and emerging-risk analysis designed to help control frameworks adapt as regulation and external events change.

## Achievements

- Built an operational-risk control network that Acin said included 14 of the world's largest banks by 2022.
- J.P. Morgan expanded the platform from a two-year pilot to its Global Markets business in 2021.
- Raised $36 million across Series A and Series B rounds before acquisition.
- Attracted five major banks as strategic Series B investors in 2022.
- Named a 2022 Rising Star in the Chartis RiskTech100.
- Made the platform available through Microsoft Azure Marketplace in 2024.
- Acquired by CUBE in June 2025 to combine regulatory intelligence with control data, mapping and benchmarking.
- A published Acin case study said a global bank used its Rewrite Tool on more than 20,000 controls, projecting £4.3 million in staff-cost savings and compressing decades of aggregate manual effort into a few months.

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Acin launched its AI platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- **2024-11** — Acin and Deutsche Bank hosted the fourth annual Women in Risk and Control event, focused on AI and data transformation in non-financial risk.
- **2025-06** — CUBE acquired Acin for an undisclosed amount and announced a bank-supported industry collaboration around compliance and risk.
- **2025-07** — Acin published Q2 product updates following the acquisition.
- **2025-09** — CUBE described the combined proposition as an end-to-end route from horizon scanning and obligation management to regulatory mapping, control quality and benchmarking.

## Links

- Website: https://www.acin.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acin-ltd
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/acintweets

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Last updated: 2026-09-05