Mercury Capital Advisors has launched Mercury iFunds, an end-to-end, digital solution offering RIAs, family offices and other wealth advisers a broad range of alternative investments across the liquidity spectrum. The mobile-responsive fintech platform of curated institutional-quality offerings is the only digital platform operated by a global capital intermediary having relationships
Peer-to-peer lending platform TWINO and KPMG have published a report entitled ‘Alternative lending market trends in Continental Europe in 2016’, revealing the findings of research into the state of the alternative finance market across the continent. According to the authors, the report shows that the UK still leads the way
The Abraaj Group has implemented RAVN Connect Enterprise, a cognitive search platform which is designed to transform the way users locate, leverage and collaborate on expertise across networks. RAVN Connect Enterprise, built upon the AI platform RAVN Applied Cognitive Engine (RAVN ACE), takes enterprise search, knowledge management and unstructured data
Legal & General Capital (LGC), with Woodford Investment Management and the British Business Bank, has invested in Accelerated Digital Ventures (ADV), a new venture platform funding digital businesses across all stages of the funding cycle. Legal & General says it sees an opportunity to help drive the institutionalisation of the
The board of trustees of the Blackstone/GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund (BGX) has approved a change in the fund’s investment guidelines. The change will increase the fund’s ability to invest in long investments while maintaining the limit of the fund’s short investments as a percentage of net assets. The
Tideway Investment Partners LLP (Tideway) has become the latest high-profile investment manager to add its funds to ISEFundHub (https://isefundhub.com). Since its launch by the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) in November 2014, approximately 50 investment fund managers have joined ISEFundHub to display information on their funds, ranging from net asset value
HM Treasury has launched the Bank Referral Scheme and designated Funding Xchange as a finance platform. As part of the scheme, Funding Xchange is working with nine UK banks to help secure funding solutions if the bank is unable to help. Banks are required to offer small businesses they
SS&C Technologies has acquired CRM solution provider Salentica. Tequity acted as the exclusive adviser to Salentica, which will now become a platform partner to the firm's Black Diamond wealth platform. The Salentica team brings expertise in providing integrated CRM solutions for both Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce CRM platforms.
Tikehau Capital is to manage the investments of Lyxor’s European senior debt funds in a deal which expands Tikehau’s leveraged loans and CLO business from EUR1.9 billion in assets under management to EUR2.6 billion, raising its total AUM to EUR9.8 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Tikehau Investment Management,
One of the clear benefits to the increased proliferation of platforms, which offer infrastructure-as-a-solution, is that it is helping start-up and emerging fund managers compete on a level playing field with larger entities. In some ways this gives them a competitive advantage given that established institutions find it hard to
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