Atlantic Fund Services (AFS) has launched services for funds in Austria – the company’s seventh market around the world and its third new market in 2014. As well as its home market, the Polish company also offers its services in Luxembourg, the US, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Liechtenstein, and now
Mawwell, a new international rewards-based crowdfunding destination for creative and innovative projects, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for the EMEA market. Mawwell, which means "fund" in Arabic, aims at giving the opportunity for project creators who may be too small for venture capital firms or too innovative for bankers,
More than 100 new funds were launched from Guernsey last year. Fiona Le Poidevin of Guernsey Finance believes that this is a major vote of confidence in the Island’s approach to AIFMD. Latest figures from Guernsey’s financial services regulator, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), show that it approved 30 new
Rothschild Merchant Banking, the investment arm of Paris Orléans, has completed the final closing of Five Arrows Credit Solutions (FACS), its junior debt fund focused on the Western European middle-market. The fund has secured total commitments of EUR415 million, in excess of its target, from a global investor base comprising
FNEX has aggregated in excess of USD40 billion in alternative investment opportunities including investments in businesses, real estate, hedge funds and managed futures accounts. FNEX launched FNEX.com, an online marketplace for alternative investments including direct placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts, in September 2013. The
Private equity firm Castle Harlan’s Partners V fund has agreed to sell Pretium Packaging to Genstar Capital. Pretium Packaging, headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, is among the nation's largest manufacturers of customised, high-performance rigid plastic bottles and containers. With more than 650 customers, including global consumer packaged goods companies, as well
A new annual conference, which aims to reinvent the way the SME sector in Scotland is financed, has been launched by five of the country’s leading organisations. Opportunity Knocks – co-hosted by RBS, Entrepreneurial Spark, Harper Macleod, Angels Den and Johnston Carmichael – is aimed at people involved in or
The Jordan Company LP has held the final closing of its third private equity fund with commitments totalling USD3.2 billion. The fund had a target of USD3 billion, but reached its hard cap. In demonstrating a continued alignment of interest with its investors, the General Partner committed over USD200 million
Benhamou Global Ventures, a Silicon Valley based early-stage venture capital firm, has held the first close of funding for BGV II LP. The fund is focused on seed and early stage investing in enterprise technology including security, cloud-based services, web scale infrastructure, mobility and the emerging Internet of Things. Benhamou
Force Over Mass Capital (FOMCAP) has launched an SEIS/EIS investment vehicle which gives individual investors access to the start-up technology space while allowing them to receive tax reliefs of up to 64 per cent of the capital invested under the Enterprise Investment Scheme. The accelerator fund aims to close the
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