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Private equity investment in tech hits four-year high

Investment in UK technology companies by private equity firms has reached its highest level since 2012, totalling GBP1.93 billion in 2015, according to international investment bank Altium. The latest figures represent a 124 per cent rise on 2014, where deal values reached GBP865 million. The data, provided by Experian Corpfin,

CVC Capital Partners closes on USD1bn for tech-focused growth fund

CVC Capital Partners (CVC) has held the the final closing of CVC Growth Partners, a new fund dedicated to investing in high-growth, middle-market companies in the software and technology-enabled business services sectors. CVC Growth Partners exceeded its USD750 million fund target and, including a sidecar co-investment vehicle, secured total commitments

Vector Capital combines Freedom Scientific and Optelec

Vector Capital has combined portfolio companies Freedom Scientific and Optelec to create the world's largest assistive technology provider for the visually impaired. The two companies have a long history of providing innovative technology solutions that enable blind and low vision individuals to reach their full potential – to gain an

Dragon Capital and Standard Chartered sponsor launch of FinTech Club in Vietnam

Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam and Dragon Capital have jointly hosted the inaugural meeting of the Vietnam FinTech Club in Ho Chi Minh City. The roundtable featured 20 start-up entrepreneurs and investors in the FinTech sector, including FPT Ventures, IDG Ventures, M_Service, Fundstart, 1Pay, Pasoto.com, Loanvi.com and MyMoney.vn. They agreed to

Buddy Doyle, Oyster Consulting

SEC could start issuing more exam fines for poor cybersecurity controls

The saying goes that ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ but when it comes to staying cyber secure, nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is, investment managers should be integrating cybersecurity issues, be they regulatory updates, software updates from their IT vendors, into their weekly meetings.  Even if it takes up

Richard Ansyet, Intralinks

Social media a potential cybersecurity weak link for hedge fund managers

Over the last 12 months there has been enormous media coverage of cybersecurity, and seemingly endless headlines. Anyone could be forgiven for thinking the end of the world was nigh.  It was therefore a refreshing change for hedge fund managers to attend a recent lunch event hosted by Intralinks that

Arthur J Gallagher Matthew Hughes

Arthur J Gallagher enhances IMI Pro

Arthur J Gallagher has enhanced its liability and crime insurance solution for investment managers IMI Pro to provide its broadest cover yet. The Gallagher-designed policy, backed by ‘A+’ rated capacity, responds to the needs of managers and funds by covering personal liability, civil liability and crime in one comprehensive package

Thomas Deinet, HFSB

Hedge Fund Standards Board to unveil cybersecurity memorandum

Cybersecurity has become a focus of the hedge fund industry lately and regulators are taking an increasing interest in assessing the resilience of firms to cyber attacks. The problem that hedge fund managers face, when starting to do such an assessment, is trying to find the right level of response;

AlternativeSoft William Broadway

AlternativeSoft releases v3.5 of buy-side fund analysis software

AlternativeSoft, a provider of buy-side analytics for manager research and portfolio construction in the alternatives and long only markets has announced AlternativeSoft v3.5. With a reputation for consistently providing the latest academically proven quantitative models for fund analysis, AlternativeSoft has positioned itself at the forefront of fund analysis. The expansive

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