Scope has published a new rating methodology for evaluating the quality and competence of individual investment teams within asset management companies. The methodology is applied to investment teams which predominantly invest in liquid, traditional instruments such as shares and bonds, as well as in liquid alternative strategies such as long/short
FRVR, a Malta-based HTML5 games publisher for both chat and post-app store platforms such as Facebook Messenger, has secured USD3 million in a seed investment led by Accel. Makers Fund and angel investors, including games industry luminaries Paul Heydon and David Helgason, also participated in the round. The way
Law firm Paul Hastings has represented Abry Partners II, a media, communications, business and information services focused private equity investment firm, on its disposal of Basefarm Holding AS to the Orange Group, for a total consideration of USD350 million. This is Paul Hastings’ second deal this month for Abry, following
MUFG Investor Services (MUFG), the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Oliver Scully as Head of EMEA Sales and David Sarfas as Global Head of Private Equity. They will be based in London and report to Mike McCabe, Managing Director, Global Head of Business Development,
BGF has backed tech-focused Click Travel, a business travel management company, with a multi-million pound investment. This follows a sustained period of technological advances and new client wins. Headquartered in Birmingham, the business was founded in 1999 by brothers Simon McLean, CTO and James McLean, CFO. Click Travel’s proprietary technology
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to Private Equity in Europe, has been authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland to provide Fund Administration services. This authorisation, effective 16 July 2018, enables Ipes (Ireland) Limited to provide full administration services to collective investment schemes and alternative investment managers in Ireland,
Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has acquired a minority equity interest in PathogenDx, a provider of DNA-based pathogen testing kits for the cannabis, botanical, food and agriculture industries. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2014, PathogenDx’s mission
KOGER has enhanced its workflow management software to provide the fund services sector with ‘complete functionality for document, business process and client contact management’. KOGER says the workflow platform now offers process control and efficiency with full operational transparency, and facilitates participation in each process by fund customers and investors.
Stockholm IT Ventures, a Swedish technology company specialising in energy crypto currency mining, has secured a EUR2 million investment in its Bytemine token (BYTM) from Pecunio’s VC Fund. Pecunio, a fintech company in the United Arab Emirates, has also offered to purchase the remaining allocation of Bytemine tokens (up to
Avedon Capital Partners has sold Robidus, a provider of social security services and software in the Netherlands, to Aegon, a life insurance, pensions and asset management company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. Closing is subject to regulatory and workers’ council approvals. Both the Robidus Management and Avedon are pleased
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