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Peer-to-peer business lender Assetz Capital has revealed that over GBP50 million has been invested into its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) since its launch at the beginning of the year.
The popularity of the Assetz Capital ISA has been consistently strong, to the extent that ISA investments now account for over 15 per cent of all loans funded through the platform.
Many investors have made the switch to the Assetz Capital ISA from Cash and Stocks and Shares ISAs, with the platform seeing over GBP20 million of completed or in-progress transfers. This is on top of investors putting new money
Floreat, the privately-held investment group, is to acquire a USD500 million portfolio of Boeing and Airbus aircraft as it continues to secure opportunities in the aviation finance sector on behalf of clients.
The group, which completed an award-winning securitisation of a USD450 million portfolio of A330s in 2016, has appointed MUFG to source a portfolio of aircrafts, which are on lease to airlines around the globe.
Floreat, which specialises in investments in public and private equity, real estate and private debt, is a long-time supporter of securitisations backed by aviation leases and sees the asset class as a means
A brand-new social impact offset token has come out of a 25-year history of creating sustainable solutions for corporations, explains Todd Lemons (pictured), chairman of the Veridium Foundation.
Veridium is a collaborative initiative between a coalition of industry leaders including IBM, Stellar, Brian Kelly Capital Management, EnVision Corporation, and IDEAcarbon (a division of IDEAglobal),
Some 10 years ago, InfiniteEARTH (also part of the EnVision group of companies), authored the first forest carbon accounting methodology, now known as REDD+ (reducing emissions from avoided deforestation and degradation), which is now embodied in the Paris agreement.
The company developed the first internationally recognised
Edinburgh-based private equity fund, Inverleith, has made a seven figure, multi-million GBP investment in Braham and Murray Good Hemp, a plant based food and drink brand which manufactures products from hemp seed.
Inverleith invests in consumer brand companies within the health & wellbeing, lifestyle and heritage sectors. It specialises in internationalising and commercialising brands, helping them to realise their full potential. Its Partners are ex-Chairman and Chief Executive of Noble Group, Ben Thomson and ex-Chief Executive of The Glenmorangie Company and Partner L Capital (LVMH), Paul Skipworth.
Other portfolio investments through its Fund and high net worth investor club
Avedon Capital Partners has sold Fit For Free and SportCity, two fitness centre brands, to Bencis, an independent investment company based in the Benelux and Germany.
Closing is subject to regulatory approvals.
In 2009, Fit For Free (founded in 2005) and SportCity (founded in 1995) came together with a strategy to rapidly increase market penetration in the Netherlands, especially with the Fit For Free value format. 


With the support of Avedon, SportCity and Fit For Free have increased the number of clubs from 42 to 110 through organic growth and selective acquisitions, resulting in nearly 400,000 members and
Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to Nordic Capital on its acquisition of Macrobond, a provider of research systems and macroeconomic and financial time series data from primary and third-party sources.
Founded in 2008, the company has developed a global and scalable SaaS application that offers an extensive database of macroeconomic and financial time series data coupled with powerful and dynamic analysis and charting tools.
Nordic Capital will support Macrobond’s next period of growth and innovation to expand its next-generation product offerings and to further strengthen its leading position.
This transaction, together with the recent sales of
BGF is to exit its investment in employee benefits firm Benefex, the first company to receive BGF funding when it launched in 2011. BGF’s minority stake will be acquired by Bain Capital.
The acquisition will enable Benefex to benefit from synergies with Bain Capital’s investments in the HR technology sector as the company moves to the next stage of its growth strategy. Founder Matt Macri-Waller will continue as shareholder and CEO.
BGF has invested GBP5.5 million into Benefex since 2011. With the investment, the company has expanded its product and service portfolio as well as operations in the USA
Triple Point, which provides innovative and compelling investment solutions for private and institutional investors, has made the first investment of its Impact EIS managed service, of up to GBP250,000 in MWS Technology (MWS), provider of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, and thus helping to develop Aptem, for companies delivering apprenticeship training.
The investment will support the growth of MWS, significantly increasing its workforce and helping to develop Aptem, the only end-to-end technology platform software that can deliver the functionality required for forward-thinking training providers.
Aptem provides advisors and operations managers with all the tools they need to manage and efficiently deliver contracts,
Vistra, a global fund administration, trusts and corporate service provider, has completed the acquisition of the Corporate Services business of Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division.
Following Vistra’s announcement of the deal in September 2017, the Corporate Services business will now be rebranded under the Vistra umbrella.
‘Corporate Services’ provides management and administration of Special Purpose Vehicles and asset holding companies to banks, non-bank financial institutions and corporates. The business specialises in the administration of structures for: Structured Finance transactions (Collateralized Loan Obligations, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Securitisations, Mortgage-Backed Securities); Aircraft Leasing; Commercial Real Estate holding; and Investment Funds (mainly private
Mesirow Financial has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to Ingenious Packaging Group (Ingenious) on its sale to Resource Label Group (Resource Label), a portfolio company of First Atlantic Capital and TPG Growth.
Located in Toronto, Canada, Ingenious services customers across the food, beverage, health and beauty, spirits, nutraceutical, distribution, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Ingenious is fully equipped with flexographic, digital and offset printing capabilities and the ancillary finishing assets to offer a full breadth of pressure sensitive, cut and stack and in-mould labels as well as shrink sleeves and branding products.
David Bowyer, chief executive officer of Ingenious,
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