Private equity trade association Invest Europe has published its 2016 European Private Equity Activity report revealing that fundraising for investment into companies across Europe hit its highest level since 2008 last year at EUR74.5 billion, a 37 per cent year-on-year increase. The report reveals private equity investments totalled EUR53.7 billion
Indos Financial, the UK independent depositary, has secured approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to extend its Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) depositary permissions to become a full depositary. The move represents the first such authorisation of a non-bank entity in the UK since AIFMD was introduced in 2014.
Redwood Bank, a new UK SME business bank, has secured a banking licence following approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). Redwood will now enter its mobilisation phase and expects to launch to customers later in 2017. Redwood Bank is wholly owned by Redwood
London-based Feedstock is operating a research platform that offers buy-side fund managers a one-stop-shop to managing their research activities under MiFID II. Feedstock acts as a productivity tool by integrating with a buy-side firm’s email system. By filtering through the hundreds of research reports that are sent on a daily
Legal firm Gilson Gray has doubled the capacity of its centrally located Edinburgh office after rapid growth in its first three years. Gilson Gray, based at 29 Rutland Square in the heart of Edinburgh’s financial district, has expanded into the neighbouring four storey building at 25 Rutland Square, increasing its
By Ras Sipko, KOGER – For the past four years, alternative fund managers with US investors have been coming to terms with the far-reaching effects of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FATCA. Some 60-plus countries have signed up to cooperate with the IRS in order to enforce FATCA and
There are a number of encouraging developments in Ireland that would, on the surface, appear to place it on a strong footing to further enhance its reputation as Europe's leading onshore alternative funds jurisdiction. If one looks at fund growth, through October 2016 (the most recent figures at the time
ML Capital, one of Ireland's leading management company groups, has grown to exceed EUR3 billion of AUM over the last 12 months. The growth trajectory over recent years has enabled ML Capital to evolve from being a leading UCITS platform operator to being more of a fund solutions provider to
The Irish Government is keen to embrace the FinTech revolution as is evidenced by its IFS2020 strategy for International Financial Services, which aims to create 10,000 new jobs in the IFS sector by 2020. One particular area of innovation underway in Ireland is the emergence of regulatory technology or ‘RegTech’
Alternative fund managers have had a myriad of regulatory change to contend with over recent years. In the early stages, many chose to take on the reporting burden themselves. This was very much a learning curve. However, as the complexity of regulatory compliance has increased, fund managers have looked to
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