Aquiline Capital Partners (Aquiline), a private investment firm specialising in financial services and technology investments, has provided a credit investment to capital markets intelligence specialist S3 Partners (S3).
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
S3 Partners provides Short Interest, Holdings, and securities lending data analytics and workflow solutions to over 450 major financial firms and has over 6,000 users, including asset managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers, and allocators.
S3 Partners’ data is delivered through various partners across the financial services sector, including Bloomberg, Snowflake, Amazon Web Services, FactSet, Omega Point, and, more recently, Goldman Sachs Marquee.
According to a press statement, with Aquiline’s capital investment, S3 will develop its sales and marketing efforts to gain market share, expand its client footprint, and serve new and existing clients more effectively.
Hogan Lovells US served as legal advisers to Aquiline on this investment. McCormick & O’Brien served as legal advisers to S3.
