Purchase highlights ACA’s dedication to provide technologically advanced client solutions.
April 14, 2025 New York Leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) expert in financial services ACA Group (ACA) has acquired Global Trading Analytics (GTA), an outside vendor of transaction cost analysis (TCA) services. The purchase supports ACA’s dedication to improve its regulatory technology capacity and meet changing compliance requirements of its worldwide customer base.
Based in Rutherford, New Jersey, GTA is a respected leader in TCA and best execution solutions across many asset classes, including foreign currency, global stocks, fixed income, and derivatives. The team’s tailored, high-touch approach fits ACA’s emphasis to mix GRC knowledge with technologically enabled solutions.
Financial services companies looking to improve execution efficiency, maximize trading strategies, and satisfy regulatory needs depend critically on TCA. TCA offers institutional investors, asset managers, and traders actionable insights across stocks, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures, and options by assessing both explicit costs—such as commissions and fees—and implicit costs—such as market effect and slippage. Through equities pre-trade modeling and post-trade analysis, this data-driven method helps companies to optimize their whole trading process including algorithmic trading techniques, order routing enhancements, and execution quality checks.
Furthermore, TCA is essential in enabling companies to show compliance by means of strong reporting and broker performance evaluations as authorities keep under constant focus on best practices. TCA solutions are meant to help companies lower costs, enhance decision-making, and produce better investment results as financial markets get more sophisticated and competitive.
Strong market reputation of GTA and current clientele comprising registered investment advisors, asset managers, wealth managers, broker-dealers will enhance ACA’s client portfolio. About half of GTA’s customers already use ACA for technology and GRC solutions, thereby offering great chances to offer complete end-to-end assistance across every client base.
“The purchase of GTA highlights our continuous dedication to provide our clients with the tools and knowledge they need to satisfy changing compliance criteria,” stated ACA CEO Patrick Olson. “We are addressing a major need for our clients by providing a best-in-class TCA solution, so enhancing our position as a leader in the regulatory technology market.”
For GTA, joining ACA marks a big change. John Halligan, Co-Founder and President of GTA, said along with my fellow co-founders, Joe Arleo and Clem Cheng, we are happy that this relationship guarantees our clients will continue to receive the high-touch service they rely on, now strengthened by ACA’s complimentary capabilities and broad resources. “Together, we are positioned to provide a totally integrated solution that meets firms’ compliance and trading needs.”
Over ACA Group
Among financial services, ACA is the top GRC consultant. We have been enabling our clients to start, expand, and defend their company for more than twenty years. Former regulators and practitioners with a thorough awareness of the regulatory terrain comprise our worldwide staff of 1,400 people. Using our ComplianceAlpha® technology platform, our creative approach combines analytics, managed services, distribution solutions, and advising with Visit https://www.acaglobal.com/transaction-cost-analysis-solution to learn further about the new offering.
About Global Trade Analytics, LLC (GTA)
Since 2005, GTA leads in the domains of TCA and best execution reporting. GTA examines stock, foreign exchange, fixed income, futures and option markets. With exemption from stocks, GTA was the first to provide TCA in all the previously listed markets.
Innovative analyses, top degrees of customer care, customizable reporting, and industry-leading accuracy define GTA’s approach. Visit www.gtanalytics.com for additional details.
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