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Maple Finance has acquired Avari, an undercollateralised lending protocol, which will allow Maple to launch on the Solana blockchain quickly, becoming the first corporate credit marketplace to do so.
The acquihire of Avari and its team, will increase Maple’s total addressable market (TAM) and grow the potential total value locked (TVL) of the protocol, making Maple the largest undercollateralised lending product by TVL in decentralised finance (DeFi) and building the strongest engineering team on Solana.
Undercollateralized lending in crypto is still comparatively small, representing less than 1 per cent of the outstanding debt market. This indicates there is a lot
Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co (Littlejohn) has promoted five individuals across the firm.
In the Private Equity group, Thomas Bennet, Charles Leung, and William McDavid have been promoted to Principal. In the Operations & Administration group, Michelle Ayaz has been promoted to Assistant Controller and Andrew Hof has been promoted to Senior Accountant.
Bennet joined Littlejohn in 2011 and has played key roles in a number of transactions including Contech, GSE Environmental, Interior Specialists Inc., Patient Point Health Technologies, and Tidel.
Leung joined Littlejohn in 2013 and has been significantly involved in a number of transactions including Alltech,
Garnett Station Partners (Garnett Station), a New York-based principal investment firm founded in 2013 by Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, has made a growth investment into VIVE Collision (VIVE), a collision repair multi-site operator (MSO).
Ironshield Capital Management (Ironshield), a European event-driven corporate credit specialist, delivered positive performance of 30 per cent in 2021.
The firm’s AUM stood at USD308 million as at 31 December 2021, across its three funds: L1 Special Situations, L2 Special Situations and Ironshield Credit Fund – UCITS.
Ironshield’s strategy significantly outperformed high yield credit markets throughout the year, beating the Bloomberg Pan-European High Yield Index which returned 4 per cent, and had low beta to both equity and credit markets. The 2021 performance was generated from a broad range of credits with idiosyncratic price catalysts, across a number of
Global alternative investment firm Värde Partners as promoted three senior investment professionals to the role of Partner: Jim Dunbar, Aneek Mamik and Carlos Sanz Esteve.
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Water Asset Management (WAM) has appointed Erin Heitkamp as Vice President, Sustainability and Farm Product Marketing.
Heitkamp will lead WAM’s vision, strategy and execution around key performance indicators of sustainability and positive impact for our portfolios of agriculture assets and water resources.
Heitkamp brings more than 20 years of experience driving sustainability initatives. For nearly 15 years, she served in various leadership roles at Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines focused on advancing the airlines’ and the industry’s positions on climate change, renewable fuels, and sustainability.
Personetics, a global provider of financial-data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers, has raised USD85 million in growth funding from Thoma Bravo.
Personetics has secured total funding of over USD160 million in 2021. Personetics is backed by Viola Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Nyca Partners and Warburg Pincus.
Personetics’ AI-powered technology is focused on proactive engagement: analysing financial data in real-time, understanding individuals’ financial behaviours, anticipating their needs and acting on their behalf.
Ten Coves Capital (Ten Coves), a growth equity firm with an exclusive focus on investments in FinTech companies, has held the closing of its third fund, Ten Coves Capital III (Fund III) with total commitments of USD293 million.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its hard cap.
Ten Coves Capital was formed in December 2020 in connection with the spinout of the growth equity team from Napier Park Global Capital, and included the assumption and management of the first two growth equity funds. With Fund III, Ten Coves now manages more than USD600 million in aggregate committed capital,
SUSI Partners, through its Energy Transition Fund (SETF), has launched a renewables platform in Poland together with Polish energy-as-a-service company Luneos.
LGE, which was set up in late 2021, aims to build a sizeable, diversified portfolio of onshore wind and solar PV assets to support the transition of the Polish power market away from its heavy reliance on coal-based generation, benefitting from comparatively low costs of renewables in times of rising carbon prices.
Leveraging on a pre-existing long-term partnership, SUSI will work closely with Luneos’ management team in leading the execution of LGE’s business plan and its day-to-day operations, ensuring
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