Accenture Pronounces Intent to Purchase Optimind, a Consulting Agency Specializing in Monetary Companies, Insurance coverage and Compliance Threat Administration
Acquisition would strengthen Accenture’s capabilities in offering purchasers with quantitative and qualitative threat administration and compliance companies
PARIS; March 17, 2023 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has introduced its intent to accumulate Optimind, a Paris-based impartial consulting agency that gives advisory companies and options to assist insurance coverage companies, banks and enormous company purchasers to fulfill main challenges of competitiveness, transformation and regulation. Monetary phrases of the transaction aren’t being disclosed.
Based in 2000, Optimind has greater than 350 extremely expert professionals, together with greater than 110 actuaries, serving purchasers in France and Luxembourg.
Optimind, recipient of the 2022 EcoVadis Gold Medal for its company social accountability coverage, has constructed over the previous 20 years robust service choices that cowl the complete spectrum of the danger administration worth chain: from technique to finance, from quantitative modeling to compliance, from mapping to continuity plans.
Olivier Girard, market unit lead for Accenture France & Benelux, stated “The acquisition would complement Accenture’s present finance and threat administration capabilities and additional strengthen our capability to assist purchasers efficiently navigate disruption and drive enterprise worth. We might be capable to deal with your complete worth chain and assist our purchasers speed up and scale their monetary and compliance transformation tasks. “
Khalid Lahraoui, Monetary Companies Lead for Accenture France & Benelux, stated: “The acquisition of Optimind would improve our capability to assist purchasers embrace change, speed up transformation, unlock worth, and construct new and disruptive threat fashions. This acquisition would improve Accenture’s standing as one of many main Technique & Consulting agency for Monetary Companies purchasers, taking our revolutionary end-to-end options to new ranges of velocity and scale throughout Europe.”
Christophe Eberle, CEO and founding father of Optimind, added, “Our individuals will present experience in qualitative, quantitative and administrative threat administration companies and options. Becoming a member of Accenture would permit us to increase our world footprint and create new enterprise alternatives for our firm and our individuals. Collectively, we might help our purchasers on a broader base at a time when enterprise, monetary and regulatory modifications are about to alter the historic stability and imply our purchasers want our help greater than ever.”
The acquisition requires prior session with the related works councils and regulatory approval and can be topic to customary closing situations.
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