
LBO funds hit by economic fallout from Covid, says eFront
LBO funds recorded a significant fall in returns during the first half of this year, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.

LBO funds recorded a significant fall in returns during the first half of this year, according to eFront’s latest Quarterly Private Equity Performance report.

OakNorth Bank is sector-agnostic, focusing mainly on lower mid-market businesses and established property developers/investors, and is active throughout England with offices in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and East Anglia. The bank, which has UK restaurant fast food chain LEON in its portfolio, has continued to lend throughout the pandemic
CEPRES, a provider of investment decision solutions for private markets, and Bain & Company, have joined forces to create DealEdge, a digital product for private equity dealmakers. DealEdge delivers intelligence to allow better-informed investment decisions, from early-stage diligence to the final investment committee. DealEdge gives investment professionals an unbeatable combination: Bain’s
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has listed its portfolio company Mintra Holding AS, a provider of on-demand digital learning and enterprise HCM software solutions for safety-critical industries worldwide, on the Merkur Market of the Oslo Stock Exchange.
Avaloq, a Swiss-based specialist in digital banking solutions, core banking software and wealth management technology, has been acquired from its existing shareholders, including private equity investor Wearburg Pincus, by Japanese NEC Corporation. Founded in 1985, Avaloq provides powerful cloud solutions for banks and wealth managers around the globe through business process
Equity derivatives clearing specialist OCC has announced a September 2020 total cleared contract volume of 670,994,045 contracts, bringing total cleared contract volume to-date to 5,453,292,830 for 2020 and surpassing the annual volume record for the US. exchange-listed options industry. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
TA Associates (TA), a global growth private equity firm, has completed a majority investment in Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy. TA, together with the Netwrix executive management team, plans to accelerate Netwrix’s growth as the company aims to expand its portfolio of easy-to-use data security solutions to
IntegriDATA, a FinTech software vendor, has launched Wire Chains, a revolutionary new feature that expedites dependent wire processing for its CashWire Payment System (CashWire). Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
Backstop Solutions Group has launched Capital-Raising Dashboards, the newest add-on module within its suite of products for alternative asset managers.

Vienna-based investment and trading platform Bitpanda has raised a USD52 million Series A funding round, Europe’s largest series A funding round of 2020, led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
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