Updraft – a lending, credit report, and financial planning app designed to tackle escalating consumer borrowing in the UK – has secured GBP16 million in a round including Quilam Capital on the debt side, and the UK Government’s Future Fund, which participated via their convertible loan note alongside a group of high-net-worths.
Threat intelligence, hunting and response technology provider EclecticIQ has raised EUR20 million in Series C financing led by cyber investor Ace Management.
The latest CEPRES Private Capital Market Outlook highlights how the venture capital industry and its underlying technology and innovation across many verticals such as financial services, entertainment, social media and healthcare can stand to benefit from the consequences of the pandemic.
By Gregory Bowes, co-founder and managing principal and Irene Rivera Calderón, associate at Albright Capital – Thoughtful investors will want to pursue investment strategies that can potentially achieve the equivalent to baseball’s rare “triple play,” ie, (i) attractive risk-adjusted returns, (ii) portfolio diversification benefits, and (iii) positive social impact. Providing restructuring support and/or private credit to EM companies suffering from macro events outside of their control may be such a strategy.
Private credit managers will provide more than USD100 billion of financing during 2020 as economic uncertainty and low interest rates are reducing the attractiveness of traditional fixed income assets, according to research published by the Alternative Credit Council and Allen & Overy.
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The second quarter of this year saw two potentially worrying trends in US corporate credit: the number of public filers carrying debt of more than 7x going into Q3 had risen to 35 per cent (compared to 14 per cent in Q4 2018), while the percentage of leveraged loan defaults rose sharply from 2 per cent at the start of the year to north of 4 per cent, by March.
This webinar, which will took place on 15 October, 2020, asked a panel of GPs to share their insights on how they have continued to monitor the performance of their portfolios during the lockdown.
“For too long the best investments have been out of reach, even for the majority of sophisticated investors. Investment technology platforms can democratise access to private investments, helping investors to build more diverse, resilient, and higher performing investment portfolios,” says Kinson Lo, founder of London-based online investment platform Dot Investing. In this op-ed Lo explains how he believes tech can streamline the investment process and why it's particularly important during times like these.
The world’s largest online angel investment platform, the Angel Investment Network, has supported the raise of more than GBP1 million in UK-based disease screening and diagnosis startup Occuity.
Kris Ring, debt finance equity partner at Goodwin Procter in Santa Monica, on the relationship between PE firms and direct lenders during the pandemic, the ways this downturn has been different to previous downturns, how the upcoming election will impact business in the US, and what a potentially contested election result could mean for market volatility.
