Guidehouse again named Leader in Financial Crime and Compliance Operations Services by Everest Group. Oct 14, 2026, 09:00 ET 2026 Peak Matrix(R) Assessment recognition for Financial Crime and Compliance Operations Services reflects the firm's operational rigor, domain expertise, and ability to scale complex programs MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Guidehouse, a global professional services firm serving the commercial and government sectors, has been named a Leader in Everest Group's 2026 PEAK Matrix(R) Assessment for Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC) Operations Services for the second year in a row. The recognition reflects the firm's ability to partner with financial institutions to build more resilient, scalable financial crime operations. In its assessment, Everest Group recognized Guidehouse's ability to deliver high-complexity FCC operations, combining regulatory and advisory expertise with managed services capabilities across investigations, enhanced due diligence, suspicious activity reporting, and complex case adjudication. The report also noted Guidehouse's growing managed services footprint, expanding relationships with fintech and crypto clients, and investments in agentic AI-enabled operations, including know your customer, transaction monitoring, investigations, and dynamic risk assessments. "Being recognized as a Leader again this year reflects what our clients see every day: a team with the expertise and operational experience to take on the most complex financial crime compliance challenges," said Li Zheng, Partner and Managed Services Leader for Financial Services, Guidehouse. "Across every region we serve, we're helping clients scale and strengthen the most complex FCC operations. By combining deep domain expertise with AI, we're modernizing operating models and delivering more practical, defensible solutions." FCC programs continue to face mounting pressures, including rising alert volumes, expanding regulatory expectations, and increasing transaction activity. Institutions are being asked to absorb these demands without compromising quality, efficiency, or control. According to Everest Group, firms are increasingly prioritizing regulatory agility, AI-enabled operations, scalable delivery models, and measurable productivity outcomes as financial crime programs evolve from reactive compliance functions to proactive risk management capabilities. In response, many organizations are turning to managed services partners. Guidehouse's Financial Crimes Compliance Managed Services team partners with banks, payment providers, fintechs, and digital asset companies to scale operations, strengthen governance, and maintain regulatory readiness without sacrificing consistency or performance. "Organizations need flexibility, disciplined execution, and transparent governance to scale operations effectively," said Ed Meehan, Global Financial Services Leader at Guidehouse. "Our managed services help clients strengthen controls, improve performance, and deliver consistent outcomes. Being recognized as an industry leader for the second consecutive year reflects the measurable results our clients continue to achieve in a dynamic business environment." Guidehouse supports end-to-end financial crime compliance operations, including anti-money laundering, know your customer, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, fraud operations, investigations, and related compliance activities. Professionals across the firm bring deep regulatory, investigative, and compliance experience to help organizations navigate evolving financial crime risks with confidence. About Guidehouse Guidehouse is a global professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors. With an integrated business technology approach, Guidehouse drives efficiency and resilience in the healthcare, financial services, energy, infrastructure, and national security markets. Built to help clients across industries outwit complexity, the firm brings together approximately 18,000 professionals to achieve lasting impact and shape a meaningful future. www.guidehouse.com SOURCE Guidehouse

Guidehouse and Alpha7X form strategic alliance to transform mortgage operations. New partnership combines AI-enabled technology, mortgage expertise, and managed services to modernize workflows, improve efficiency, and strengthen operational resilience. MCLEAN, VA - Oct. 5, 2026 - Guidehouse, a global professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors, has partnered with Alpha7X, a leading technology platform and operating system for the mortgage industry. The alliance combines Alpha7X's technology with Guidehouse's deep experience in mortgage operations, lending transformation, securitization, and regulatory compliance to help companies modernize and scale operations across the mortgage lifecycle. Together, Guidehouse and Alpha7X will help financial institutions automate routine activities, accelerate processing, improve data quality and consistency, strengthen operational resilience, and position themselves for long-term growth in an increasingly digital mortgage ecosystem. "Clients aren't looking to buy AI. They're looking to achieve better business outcomes," said Sourish Chaudhuri, Partner at Guidehouse. "By bringing together Alpha7X's innovative technology and Guidehouse's transformation and managed services capabilities, we're helping firms modernize mortgage operations in a way that is practical, scalable, and measurable." Unlike approaches that require organizations to replace core systems or manage siloed tools, the combined offering is designed to work within existing operating environments and workflows. This allows financial institutions to modernize operations incrementally and scale AI-enabled processes while preserving the governance, auditability, and operational oversight required in highly regulated environments. "Alpha7X was built to create a more adaptive, connected, trusted, and intelligent infrastructure for mortgage assets," said Jim Cutillo, Founder and CEO of Alpha7X. "Guidehouse brings the industry, operational, and delivery capabilities needed to translate innovation into sustained change. Together, we can help institutions modernize the way work gets done without disrupting core systems." About Alpha7X Alpha7X is a financial technology company with a leading operating system for the residential mortgage industry. Alpha7X creates a persistent, evidence-backed record for mortgage assets across origination, capital markets, servicing, and securitization. By connecting data, documents, evidence, policy, and asset lineage, Alpha7X enables market participants to continuously determine whether an asset is salable, serviceable, and compliant. Alpha7X enables mortgage assets to move across counterparties with portable confidence - reducing friction, accelerating execution, and enabling assets to be manufactured once, certified once, and trusted throughout their lifecycle. www.alpha7x.com About Guidehouse Guidehouse is a global professional services firm delivering advisory, technology, and managed services to the commercial and government sectors. With an integrated business technology approach, Guidehouse drives efficiency and resilience in the healthcare, financial services, energy, infrastructure, and national security markets. Built to help clients across industries outwit complexity, the firm brings together approximately 18,000 professionals to achieve lasting impact and shape a meaningful future. Media Contact: Cecile Fradkin [email protected] MORE ON THIS TOPIC

Quantum Sky names three evps to lead market-facing business groups. * Samantha Moore, Jessica Merriam and Nicole Gibson were appointed to EVP roles * Quantum Sky organized three business groups around its core federal markets * Arlington Capital Partners is backing Quantum Sky Quantum Sky has appointed three executive vice presidents to run business groups organized around its main federal markets. Samantha Moore will lead the Department of War group, Jessica Merriam will head the intelligence and space group, and Nicole Gibson will direct the federal civilian group, Quantum Sky said Thursday. The structure is part of a broader operating model meant to tie growth, technology and operations more closely to customer missions. Andrew Boyd, CEO of Quantum Sky, said the arrangement gives the company a sharper focus as it brings its capabilities to customers. Who are the new Quantum Sky business group leaders? Moore previously served as vice president for Department of War services at SMX. Prior to that, she spent nearly five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently as a strategic technical leader for global national security and defense, and nearly a decade as senior director for space and intelligence systems at Solers, which Peraton acquired in 2019. Following the acquisition, she held the same role at Peraton. Merriam joined Quantum Sky from SilverEdge Government Solutions, where she led the intelligence solutions group through the company's sale to SAIC in 2025. At SAIC, she ran a business supporting intelligence community customers, the Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Command. She previously served as executive director of intelligence community programs at CACI, overseeing an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth over $400 million. Merriam also spent more than 20 years as an intelligence officer, including assignments at Special Operations Command and a stint as deputy senior director at the National Security Council covering sub-Saharan Africa policy. Gibson came from Guidehouse, where she most recently led firmwide transformation work spanning talent acquisition, facilities, security and human capital operations, including recruiting structures across the U.S., Canada, Europe and India. She previously served as a partner for defense and security at the firm for more than seven years, leading the national security portfolio covering the intelligence community and the Office of the Secretary of War. Before Guidehouse, she spent nearly 11 years at PwC, rising from manager to principal and working on strategy, change management and process improvement for national security agencies and the geospatial intelligence enterprise. Gibson began her career at BearingPoint, where she spent more than seven years in consulting roles serving public sector clients. She brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise transformation and business growth. What is Quantum Sky? The company rebranded from Tyto Athene in August, sharpening its focus on AI, cybersecurity, cloud and post-quantum technologies for federal customers. Quantum Sky is an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company. It named Sean Thompson chief growth officer that same month to oversee enterprise growth strategy. The rebrand followed roughly two years of change, including Boyd's move to CEO; Cutter Brenton's appointment as chief AI officer; and acquisitions covering space software, managed cybersecurity, cloud compliance and intelligence community IT. Michael Lustbader, a managing partner at Arlington Capital Partners and a Wash100 Award winner, said Arlington and Quantum Sky are investing in quantum computing and other technologies to support the latter's expansion into key federal markets.