Tech start-up Blueprint has secured a GBP1million seed investment led by Magnus Rausing’s MAHR Projects and including Founders Factory and Hambro Perks. At a time when worldwide ecommerce adoption and digital payments are accelerating, Blueprint is ramping up the development of the first true conversational commerce platform which allows consumers to
ZEDRA Fund Services has won a new mandate to provide comprehensive fund administration and corporate governance services to IG4 Capital’s latest USD231.5 million blind-pool Private Equity II Fund, which will focus on special opportunities in Latin America. Ryan Taylor, director of ZEDRA Fund Services, explains: “We have proven and significant experience
New McKinsey research has shown private equity operating groups are playing a vital role in responding to the challenges created by Covid-19.Operating groups are employed by private equity firms to provide strategic direction and support to portfolio companies. For PE firms, which often own businesses in multiple industries and geographies,
Growth-equity investment firm Edison Partners has completed the sale of Clearpool Group, a New York-based electronic trading provider and independent agency broker-dealer, to BMO Financial Group. The deal is Edison’s third institutional fintech exit to a strategic buyer this year, which also includes the sale of Scivantage to Refinitiv and Solovis
Crypto Finance has completed a Series B investment round, raising CHF14 million in new funding from a consortium of investors.
As stay-at-home orders are taking their toll on the economy and businesses are in need of cash, the private equity industry could be well positioned to pick up better priced assets in the backwaters of the crisis. David Mussafer, chairman and managing partner of Advent International, told the Financial Times
Scandinavian bank SEB has become the newest liquidity provider for BidFX, an EMS designed for the daily FX market.BidFX head of Nordic Sales, Peter Bondesen, says: “The increased interest in our advanced EMS from Nordic financial institutions means greater demand for specialised, local liquidity. Many of our global clients have also
The number of carve-out acquisitions is expected to rise as businesses look to restructure following the Covid-19 crisis. New research has revealed that around a fifth of carve-outs result in millions of dollars wasted because of inefficiencies, however. A survey, commissioned by TMF Group, found that 34 per cent of
Eurazeo is creating a EUR10 million solidarity fund to buy and donate products from its investee companies to support communities affected by Covid-19, with the support of its shareholders. The fund will be financed from Eurazeo’s cash holdings and by donations from the supervisory board, the executive board and the
Inflexion Private Equity Partners is making donations totalling GBP 2.5 million to help alleviate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak via The Inflexion Foundation. Inflexion said that the current pandemic is both “universal and severe” and that the firm recognises the need to support the most vulnerable at this time.
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