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HQLAX has added JP Morgan as a strategic investor in its Series B funding round, joining existing investors BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Citigroup, and Deutsche Börse Group.
JP Morgan has already connected to the HQLAX platform as Triparty Agent, and JP Morgan will also connect its Agency Securities Lending business in 2021.
HQLAX’s core clients are financial institutions active in securities lending and collateral management. The HQLAX platform enables market participants to transfer ownership of securities seamlessly across disparate collateral pools at precise moments in time. This allows participants to optimise their liquidity management and
Twelve leading universities have joined forces to create an impact investment fund, Impact 12 (www.impact12.com), to support mission-led university ventures.
The ten-year, multi-million-pound fund will support social ventures created within the twelve participating universities across the UK. The fund will support ventures motivated by beneficial social or environmental impact, rather than solely by profit.
Impact 12 has been developed by Social Investment Scotland (SIS), an impact investor and responsible finance provider based in Edinburgh, in partnership with the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Northampton, Coventry and eight universities comprising the MICRA Project (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester,
Private investment company DRS Investment sells 100 per cent of the shares in the Swiss software company XELOG AG to proLogistik Holding in Dortmund.
XELOG will remain an independent company and bundles its resources and competencies in the field of warehouse management systems (WMS) with proLogistik and Dataphone forming the proLogistik Group.
Since the 2018 acquisition of XELOG AG by DRS from the founders Armin Töngi and Peter Duss, XELOG AG has successfully developed under the leadership of Carsten Pauli. By investing in product development, the location in Germany and marketing & sales, the foundation for future growth has been
Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) is to invest in Bano Group (Bano), an international supplier of complete bathroom solutions to the healthcare sector. This marks Waterland’s first investment in Norway.
Bano is a developer, producer and distributor of limited mobility bathrooms, with a focus on nursing homes. Since its foundation in 1999, the company has grown to become a market leader in the Nordic region, with an annual revenue of NOK 331 million in 2020 and an average annual growth rate of 12 per cent in the past five years. The company specialises in superior innovative solutions that improve the quality of
UBCO, a specialist in utility electric vehicles, has raised USD10 million by bringing on board investors Oregon based Seven Peak Ventures, Nuance Capital, global technology powerhouse TPK Holdings.
This USD10 million funding comes off the back of a strong year for UBCO, including expansion across new and existing markets and the introduction of its subscription service. UBCO will use the funding to help continue scaling into the US, which will be its biggest market, focusing on the food delivery, postal, agriculture and last mile sectors. Already a large proportion of customers use UBCO vehicles for work in the gig economy
Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments, has exited its stake in portfolio company, Pure Cremation – a fast-growing direct cremations business.
Pure Cremation has been the driving force behind the UK-wide adoption of direct cremation, a straightforward and affordable alternative to traditional funerals, enabling loved ones to hold a more personal event to commemorate the deceased’s life at a later date.
Puma delivered GBP7.35 million of funding in two rounds, in November 2017 and December 2018. Since then Pure Cremation has gone from strength to strength, doubling in size each year since launching in 2015 as
One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of the BRUSH Group (BRUSH0, an independent provider of equipment, services and solutions for electrical power generation and distribution. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Founded in 1889, and headquartered in Ashby de la Zouch, United Kingdom, BRUSH has a long and rich history serving power generation, control and distribution products, namely turbogenerators, transformers, and switchgear. The Company’s 1,200 employees also provide a wide range of services for these same product segments worldwide. BRUSH’s products are used across a wide range of end
LGT Capital Partners has held the final close of Crown Secondaries Special Opportunities II (CSSO II), its second dedicated direct secondaries fund, with total subscriptions of USD1.57 billion.
Oakley Capital’s Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) has agreed to acquire PRIMAVERA Business Software Solutions (PRIMAVERA), a Portuguese specialist in business management software.
The Company will be combined with existing Oakley Capital portfolio company Ekon, a Spanish provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, to create a new group under the name Grupo Primavera, which will be the largest independent provider of business software in Iberia. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
Founded in 1993, PRIMAVERA provides ERP and cloud business software solutions to over 32,000 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (“SMEs”) across Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. PRIMAVERA
Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has released a new whitepaper – “Increasing Allocation to Private Markets” – which reviews the trend of investors increasing their allocation of capital to private market investments such as private equity, private debt, real estate, absolute return, infrastructure and GP stakes.
During a turbulent 2020, when traditional asset classes faced several challenges, such as historic lows in fixed income yields and a volatile equities market, capital continued to shift towards private markets. Investor appetite has been influenced by factors such as active management approaches and longer investment horizons that offer
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