SmartSearch named Long-Term Growth Champion by the Financial Times and Statista, recognising its exemplary growth rate
The award recognises SmartSearch’s average annual growth of 31% year-on-year since 2013, which also led to significant investment from Triple Private Equity, and an expanded leadership team.
SmartSearch, the UK’s leading provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions, has been named as a Long-Term Growth Champion in Europe by the Financial Times and Statista. The company stood out for its impressive annual growth rate, demonstrating strong organic growth in the past decade of an average 31% year-on-year. SmartSearch was also spotlighted for distinguishing itself as a market-leader in a highly competitive industry and is one of only 48 UK companies to be named as a Long-Term Growth Champion.
SmartSearch has seen a number of strategic changes at the company over the past 12 months, aimed at driving its next phase of accelerated growth and continuing to consolidate its market-leading position in the AML and Compliance Solution space. SmartSearch received significant investment from Triple Private Equity earlier this year, welcomed industry leader Phil Cotter as CEO and recently expanded its leadership team with a series of C-Suite appointments to rapidly advance growth and innovation. These changes position the company to help even more businesses across all regulated sectors protect themselves from financial crime with its market-leading solutions and continue to deliver innovative new products and services that assist customers in accelerating their own growth whilst fighting against global money laundering and fraud.
Europe’s Long-Term Growth Champions 2025 is the first edition of a new Special Report from the Financial Times and Statista, which aims to identify and highlight companies in the region that have achieved exemplary growth in the past 10 years. SmartSearch was among the top 300 European companies selected for the report, showcasing its longevity and a decade of sustained growth. The Special Report expands on the existing FT1000 Europe’s Fastest List, which SmartSearch has also been named in three times in the past five years thanks to its rapid expansion.
Phil Cotter, CEO at SmartSearch, said: “We are delighted to have received the accolade of being a Long-Term Growth Champion in Europe, recognising SmartSearch’s sustained growth and exemplary performance over the past 10 years. Our vision is to expand upon this with our next phase of accelerated growth, ensuring no business in a regulated sector feels they must navigate the fast changing and complex regulatory environment alone. We will continue to evolve our best-in-class product suite in line with their needs to protect companies against financial crime. SmartSearch is proud to be a market leader in the fight against global money laundering and fraud and to be recognised for our longevity and continued innovation in the space.”
SmartSearch’s next phase of accelerated growth will enable the company to continue delivering new and innovative products for its customers as the UK’s leading provider of AML and digital compliance solutions. Solutions which both unlock and fast-track its customers own growth ambitions, whilst remaining compliant.
