Actimize sells software that helps banks and other financial institutions detect fraud, run anti-money-laundering checks and manage compliance investigations. Brookfield’s financial infrastructure arm is in exclusive talks to buy the business from Nasdaq-listed NICE for about $2 billion, Sky News reported Wednesday. Its sources warned that no agreement had been finalized and the transaction could still fall apart.
The software sits between a financial institution’s data and the people who decide what to do about risky activity. Actimize says its systems combine transaction, customer and market data, apply analytics and machine learning to spot suspicious behavior, then collect alerts and related information in case-management tools for investigators. Its products also cover customer checks, sanctions screening and market surveillance.
NICE bought Actimize for $280 million in 2007 and later made it a formal division. The seller is not unloading a marginal product line: CTech reported that Actimize generated $453.5 million of revenue and $158.3 million of operating profit in 2024, equal to 16.6% and 29% of NICE’s totals. The same report said NICE was shifting its focus toward cloud customer-service software and AI automation.
The roughly $2 billion figure is also below the marker reported earlier in the auction. CTech said in May that five other bidders had submitted nonbinding indications around $2.5 billion, while cautioning that final offers were not assured at that level. Brookfield was not among the five bidders named in that report.
Sky News said a purchase would sit within Brookfield’s private-equity financial infrastructure strategy, which also holds a stake in Barclays’ merchant-acquiring arm. Actimize would extend that strategy from the systems that move payments into the software banks use to police them. Brookfield declined to comment.