Total funding for US fintech companies and deal activity dropped significantly in 2016, down to USD12.8 billion from USD27 billion in 2015, a result of political and regulatory uncertainty, a decline in megadeals and investor caution. That’s according to KPMG's Q4 2016 The Pulse of Fintech report, which reveals that despite

The total number of private equity deals in 2016 was up 18 per cent on 2015, with the majority of the transactions completing in the second half of the year, post the Brexit vote, according to research conducted by Clearwater International. The upcoming 2016 Heatmap Review, in association with unquote”,

The UK Government’s intention to trigger the Article 50 process of leaving the European Union (EU) by the end of March has seen a 2 per cent decline in early-stage M&A activity in the UK in Q4 2016, compared to the same period one year prior.  This means announced M&A

Last year proved to be a challenging year for the private equity (PE) industry as market instability and political uncertainty took hold worldwide. But 2017 has ushered in a more optimistic outlook, according to BDO’s Eighth Annual PErspective Private Equity Study. When the initial survey of 200 fund managers across

FTI Consulting has published an update to its interactive Global Shareholder Activism Map, which shows that shareholder activism gained momentum and geographic breadth in 2016.  To measure the potential risk in each jurisdiction, FTI Consulting created an index to track activism threat level by country and map key activists within

Crowdfunding outperformed private equity with investment into non-listed high growth companies in the UK in 2016, according to a report from research agency Beauhurst. Seedrs, the Neil Woodford backed investment platform, has again been named top investor into private companies in the UK, with Crowdcube, another notable crowdfunding site coming

Fund-level benchmarks, which institutional investors have relied on for decades to evaluate private equity managers and opportunities, no longer provide a complete picture, according to investment firm Cambridge Associates (CA). The continued expansion and evolution of the private equity market is challenging the singular usefulness of fund-level "net to limited