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By A Paris – As European regulators push for greater homogeneity across the European Union, jurisdictions like Malta need to focus on ensuring full compliance while also maintaining the element of flexibility and agility which is one of the country’s biggest draws. Although the island has suffered from a few years of reputational issues on a broader level, Malta’s fund industry has continued working with its partners and providing a robust service.
“The funds industry itself has been robust. We haven’t had any major fund blow ups and the fundamentals are strong. Any change to repair the reputation issues the island suffered
Q&A with Ivan Grech, Chief Operations Officer, FinanceMalta
What are the key trends currently driving growth and development within Malta’s funds industry?
Malta has always been attractive in the alternative space for the small-medium sized managers, thanks to the introduction of the Professional Investor Fund Regime, alongside various advantages including cost efficiencies, a pro-business regulator, time-to-market consideration, etc; factors which together create the right environment and render the Maltese jurisdiction an interesting and compelling one, particularly for alternative managers.
Furthermore, with what seems to be an increasing investor preference to opt for onshore regulated structures, we are receiving a number of
thinkproject, Europe’s leading SaaS provider , today announced a new stakeholder, global investor EQT.
Bamboo Capital Partners (Bamboo), an impact investing platform, has been appointed by the Government of Madagascar and the World Bank as the international fund manager for the Off-Grid Market Development Fund (OMDF), a USD$40 million renewable energy access fund.OMDF was established in April and launches its financing operations with a first window for proposals for results-based financing (RBF) from 28 October to 8 December. In parallel, OMDF will also provide debt financing to solar distributors and financial institutions that finance end-customers or solar distributors in Madagascar.
Société Générale Madagasikara has been appointed to host the OMDF funds and provide
FCP, with JV partners Abacus Capital (Abacus) and Big Cypress Capital (Big Cypress), has closed on the acquisition of 4.33 acres at 2213 and 2218 Toomey Avenue in Charlotte, NC. The parcels are currently occupied by one-story warehouse buildings totalling 63,034 square feet that will be repositioned as a creative commercial district in the rapidly growing South End submarket.
“Our South End adaptive reuse redevelopment brings FCP’s extensive experience with this creative office format to an organically expanding and promising area of South End,” says FCP Senior Associate, Kevin North. North continued, “We are excited to be working alongside Abacus
Sub-Sahara African-based Pacer Ventures has launched a USD3 million fund for early-stage startups, with a focus on healthcare, financial inclusion, education and agriculture on the African continent.
With offices in Lagos and Johannesburg, the firm has begun to support early stage founders by participating in seed rounds, including in financial services app VPD.Money.
The GSMA Mobile Economy Report states that 84 per cent of Africa’s population – or one billion people – will have access to a SIM connection by 2025.
Gbemi Akande, general partner at Pacer Ventures, said: “We see a huge opportunity to support early stage founders who are making meaningful
InvestiNation, an equity crowdfunding platform that provides access to some of Israel’s most promising startups, is now open to US accredited investors.The online platform offers proprietary investment opportunities with Israeli companies in fintech, proptech, contech, medtech, edtech, enterprise software, and other burgeoning fields. It also features in-depth research and market knowledge via interactive tools including podcasts and webinars.
A Besadno group member, InvestiNation is led by CEO Oded Eliashiv, who is also managing partner of affiliate companies B-Seed and BuiltUp Ventures; Eli Gross, founder of Besadno and managing partner of B-Seed and BuiltUp Ventures; and Amos Meron, who has
By David Genn, chief executive officer at Goji – As private capital managers look to individual investors as the next frontier for asset growth, technology may finally provide a path.
London-based Banking-as-a-Service provider Griffin has secured GBP6.5 million in a funding round led by EQT Ventures. This new round follows the company’s previous £3m seed round announced earlier this year. Other participants in the round include Seedcamp, Tribe Capital, Paul Forster (co-founder Indeed.com), Matt Robinson (co-founder Go-Cardless/Nested), and Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas (COO GoCardless). Griffin is building an API-first bank that will dramatically lower the barrier to entry when it comes to launching new financial products and services. The company will use the investment to further product development, hire more people and continue the bank authorisation process with the PRA and FCA.
Griffin
Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, has led a GBP2.5 million investment into CreativeX, an AI-powered creative analytics platform used by global brands to measure the efficiency, consistency and impact of marketing and advertising content.CreativeX, which has recently announced that it has rebranded from Picasso Labs, was founded in 2015 by Anastasia Leng, a serial entrepreneur and former Google executive. CreativeX sought to harness data to understand the performance of image and video content and it has since grown to become a cornerstone of the creative process for leading global brands including Google, Unilever, L’Oréal and Pepsi.
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