Plia Systems Joins The Investment Association’s IA Engine

Plia Systems Joins The Investment Association’s IA Engine, Bringing Market-Leading Know Your Broker Technology to the UK Asset-Management FinTech Ecosystem

London, 26 June 2025 — Plia Systems, the provider of the industry-leading Know Your Broker (KYB) due-diligence platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Investment Association’s IA Engine — the UK’s specialist FinTech hub and accelerator dedicated to catalysing technology adoption across the investment-management sector.

Plia’s cloud-native KYB utility streamlines counterparty due-diligence by furnishing asset managers and broker-dealers with a secure, single-point interface and a library of standardised questionnaires co-created by market participants. The platform is already employed by asset-management firms overseeing more than USD 28.5 trillion in assets, facilitating regulatory compliance, operational efficiency and risk transparency.

IA Engine, launched in 2018, connects innovative FinTechs with a network of over 250 investment-management institutions, industry mentors and venture partners. Its programmes provide business-development support, regulatory guidance and curated introductions that accelerate solution adoption at scale.

Bill Stephenson, Chief Executive Officer and Chair, Plia Systems, commented:

“Membership of IA Engine marks an inflection point in Plia’s growth journey. Our KYB platform has already re-defined best practice for broker due-diligence; partnering with the Investment Association will allow us to embed those standards even more deeply within the European asset-management community, delivering demonstrable efficiency gains and stronger governance for buy- and sell-side alike.”

Henry Bewley, Membership & FinTech Executive, IA Engine, added:

“Plia embodies the type of high-impact, enterprise-ready innovation that IA Engine exists to champion. We look forward to facilitating Plia’s engagement with our members and seeing the benefits cascade through the market.”

Strategic Significance

• Elevated Standards. By automating due-diligence workflows and aggregating peer-sourced intelligence, Plia’s KYB platform reduces manual effort and mitigates information asymmetry between asset managers and brokers. Plia

• Regulatory Alignment. The solution supports compliance with global market-conduct, best-execution and operational-resilience requirements, reinforcing firms’ second- and third-line control frameworks.

• Innovation at Scale. IA Engine’s accelerator structure provides Plia with targeted exposure to buy-side decision-makers, expediting commercial deployments and enabling collaborative refinement of new KYB functionality tailored to UK and EU regulation. IA Engine

About Plia Systems

Plia Systems is a privately held FinTech headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, delivering secure information-exchange and due-diligence solutions to the global capital-markets industry. Since 2012 its flagship KYB utility has modernised counterparty oversight for more than 50 broker-dealers and asset managers controlling USD 28.5 trillion in AUM.

About IA Engine

IA Engine is the Investment Association’s FinTech hub and accelerator, founded in 2018 to fuel technology adoption within the UK investment-management industry. Engine connects FinTech innovators with asset-management firms, providing mentorship, market access and policy advocacy to drive client-centric digital transformation.

Media Contacts

Plia Systems

support@plia.com | 0203 411 3996

The Investment Association – IA Engine

media@theiaengine.com | +44 20 3859 0748