Capvent, a private-equity firm with a specialist focus on consumer businesses in Asia, has exited its investment in Tsingda, an education services company in China, to another domestic private equity firm resulting in distributions of approximately three times the invested capital. Capvent Asia invested in 2011 when the company revenues
Julian Masters has been made a senior partner of mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm. At the same time, Tom Elliott and Enrica Dacomo have been promoted to investment director. Masters leads Bowmark’s business & financial services and media practices. Since joining the firm from
Rand Capital Corporation (Rand), a venture capital company that makes primarily equity investments in companies with emerging product, service or technology concepts, has invested USD1.1 million as the lead investor of a USD2.0 million senior term loan package for GENICON. GENICON is recognised as an emerging leader in the design,
Kueski, an online lending company in Mexico offering real-time, micro loans to Mexican consumers, has closed a USD35 million round of equity and debt funding, with the potential to increase to USD100 million in total funding, the largest capital funding in Mexico for a fintech startup. The USD10 million equity
Regulatory technology, or ‘RegTech’ as it is known, is building momentum in Ireland as the country looks to embrace the Financial Technology revolution. Speaking at an Irish Funds Industry press event in London last week, Cillian Leonowicz (pictured), Manager, Financial Services, Strategy & Operations – Consulting at Deloitte, said that
The migration to cloud-based IT systems is forcing governments to update privacy regulations to meet evolving data sovereignty requirements. This new report from Ovum “Data privacy laws: Cutting the red tape” shows results of an international survey on the effects of these evolving regulations on businesses. Please click here to
Employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm Baird has posted record net revenues of USD1.3 billion in 2015, a 7 per cent increase over 2014, despite choppy markets and slow economic growth. Operating income totalled a record USD154 million, up 14 per cent from a year
Ortus Secured Finance, the London-based commercial lender, says it plans to double its commercial lending to UK leisure sector businesses within the next 12 months. It also hopes to triple the size of its lending book in Northern Ireland – where its focus centres on commercial property needs – by
BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to grow its investment team in the Midlands with the appointment of Debbie Sorby. Sorby has 18 years’ portfolio management experience gained most recently at Midven and before that at YFM Group, Connection Capital and 3i, where she spent 11 years. Based in
BBH Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co (BBH) has held final close of BBH Capital Partners V (CP V) with capital commitments totalling USD802 million, including more than USD110 million from the General Partner and Affiliates. CP V – which was oversubscribed – exceeded
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