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ECI Partners has completed the sale of Imagesound to Livingbridge, generating a 2.6x return.
City Hive, the think tank and advocacy group, has launched ACT, a standard of corporate culture for investment companies, chaired by City Hive’s CEO Bev Shah, and Chief Strategist Mandy Kirby.
ACT, standing for ‘Action, Challenge, and Transparency’, is a standard of corporate culture designed to help investment companies demonstrate movement towards more diverse, equitable and inclusive firms. ACT enables companies to show alignment between external and internal values; between beliefs and behaviours.
There are 15 founding signatories to ACT, including Schroders, Lombard Odier Investment Management, M&G, Aviva Investors, Mirabaud Investments, AssetCo, Federated Hermes, WHEB, BlueBay Asset Management, Radiant ESG,
Apex Group Ltd (Apex), a global financial services provider, has extended its longstanding relationship with Aizawa Asset Management (AAM) to provide services to their new Cayman fund, Ariake Secondary Fund III LP (ASF-III).
Global investment solutions provider, Russell Investments, has been selected by French pension plan, Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), as transition management partner.
FRR will utilise Russell Investments’ deep capital markets expertise and extensive trading capabilities to reduce exposure risk and execution costs when restructuring its mandates, including changes to managers, strategies, benchmarks and investment styles.
7/10 of UK adults, with at least one investment outside of their pension, say they would be more likely to choose an investment in a fund or organisation if they knew it was having a positive social or environmental impact, according to research from Big Society Capital.
Paymob, Egypt’s market-leading omni-channel financial services platform, has raised $50 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Kora Capital, PayPal Ventures, and Clay Point.
Other new participating investors included Helios Digital Ventures, British International Investment, and Nclude. All existing investors, including A15, FMO, and Global Ventures also participated.
The proceeds will be used to turbocharge the company to expand its product range, reinforce its leadership in the Egyptian market, and expand into new markets across the Middle East and Africa region.
This funding round is the largest ever fintech, Series B in Egypt, and brings the total
The UK Equity Trustees Fund Services Board has appointed Tim Callaghan as independent director.
He brings more than 30 years of experience in managing, marketing and oversight of investment strategies as an investment specialist. He was most recently the chief investment officer and lead manager of the Globersel Pactum Natural Resources Fund at Nextam Partners Ltd.
Callaghan is a Certified European Financial Analyst and holds a BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Management from King’s College London University.
Archangels, the angel investment syndicate, has appointed Ian Macleod as the new chair of its board.
The former investment analyst and fund manager takes over the role from Eric Young, who has held the position since 2014. Young will continue to sit on the Archangels board.
Previously, Macleod worked in London and Paris for many years as an analyst, specialising in the electronics and telecoms industries, initially with ANZ Capel Cure Myers and longer spells at both NatWest Markets and Jeffries.
Peakside Capital Advisors AG (Peakside) has appointed Frank Schäfer as a new partner in the company.
Acquisitions by UK private equity firms of European corporates jumped 80% from 245 in 2020 to 442 in 2021, shows research by Accuracy, the global independent financial and strategic consulting firm.
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