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Blue Motor Finance (Blue), a financing company for used cars in the UK, has successfully completed a syndication of part of its existing GBP300 million forward flow transaction to Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) and funds managed by Schroders Capital.
This is the first transaction Blue has undertaken with Standard Chartered and Schroders Capital managed funds and continues Blue’s desire to both diversify and extend partnerships across its funding platform. It demonstrates continued confidence in Blue’s platform and business model from a broad range of blue chip funders and investors.
The transaction highlights Blue’s continuing commitment to developing its funding
Irish Funds has welcomed the targeted approach taken by the European Commission in the publication of the legislative proposal amending the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the move towards greater supervisory convergence.
EFAMA has welcomed the European Commission’s review of the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD), setting out targeted improvements to key provisions in the current framework.
Such targeted improvements will make strides in advancing the Capital Markets Union. At the same time, they maintain the framework which has underpinned a decade of growth in the European Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) market and proven resilient even throughout recent market stresses.
Tanguy van de Werve, EFAMA Director General, says: “Tweaking a successful framework is a science in its own right and requires measured judgement and data-based input from relevant sources. If
ALFI has issued a statement following the publication of a draft directive amending Directive 2011/61/EU on Alternative Investment Fund Managers and of a draft regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2015/760 on European Long-Term Investment Funds.
The European Commission published a legislative package aimed at revising the regulatory framework for managers of alternative investment funds (AIFMD) and European long-term investment funds (ELTIF Regulation).
Following dedicated consultations a year ago, the European Commission has submitted concrete recommendations for changes, which will be considered in the coming weeks by both the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, before trilogue negotiations may begin.
Vauban, a platform that provides venture capital fund managers with everything they need to raise a fund and invest capital quickly, has closed a GBP4.7 million funding round.
Investors include co-leads Pentech and Outward, in addition to 7 per cent Ventures and MJ Hudson. A roster of high profile angel investors have also participated; this includes the CEO of Nested, Matt Robinson; the founder of Grabayo, Will Neale; the founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, Charles Delingpole; Partner at Augmentum Fintech Perry Blacher; and Al Giles, from legal services provider Axiom.
Through its end-to-end platform, Vauban provides VCs and angel investors
LBO France has acquired a majority stake in the French companies ID Market and Sourcidys, alongside their long-standing shareholder/managers Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Olivier Roor.
For 15 years now, Emmanuel Antunes, Guillaume Besnier and Oliver Roor, founding managers, have created and developed ID Market and Sourcidys, two companies that are now French leaders in the design and online sale of home & garden products. Both companies have expanded rapidly, based on a strategy of tapping all digital channels to sell to BtoC customers for ID Market and BtoB customers for Sourcidys. In less than 10 years, they have become
Stableton Financial AG (Stableton), a European Fintech platform for alternative investments, has hired Freddie Cunningham as Head of Sales.
Cunningham’s appointment aims to broaden Stableton’s fast growth and distribution capabilities further and prepare its international expansion upon its Series A funding round.
In this newly created position, Cunningham will report to Stableton’s Chief Revenue Officer Igor Shelemetiev and will be responsible for Stableton’s global sales, distribution and client service activities. He will head the respective teams that focus on servicing financial intermediaries, institutional and private investors.
Before joining Stableton, Cunningham was the Zurich-based Head of EMEA for i2i Logic, a
NOS 5G Fund, created by NOS and managed by Armilar Venture Partners, and Triple Point Ventures, have co-invested EUR4.4 million in digital health start-up knok.
The investment round also includes participation from previous investors, the Social Innovation Fund and Social and Environmental Impact Fund MSM (Mustard Seed MAZE). The Portuguese start-up will use the investment to develop complete and fully integrated telemedicine solutions which benefit enormously from 5G technology.
knok’s platform incorporates video consultations and supporting tools for remote monitoring of patients via artificial intelligence, all through a single platform. Through this solution, the patients can identify symptoms, share clinical
everstox closes 20 million Series A to expand its Logistics-as-a-Service platform further across Europe.
“In today’s agile eCommerce environment, successful merchants scale demand for their businesses in no time. However, scaling logistics and warehousing operations is the missing piece that is still highly complex and breaks all growth momentum. We are here to change that and bring a fully automated and flexible solution to all merchants,” says Boris Bösch.
Bösch, Felix Haberland and Johannes Tress have developed everstox, a Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform. The everstox solution combines a network of professional third-party logistics operators with a tech platform for real-time management
Ecobank Group, a pan-African banking group, has signed an agreement for a EUR100 million long-term credit facility over nine years with the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The facility affirms joint Ecobank Group and EIB targeted support for business investment across Africa, with particular support for the sectors most impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ade Ayeyemi, Chief Executive Officer, Ecobank Group, says: “At Ecobank we are fully committed to providing a range of initiatives that support the growth and success of Africa’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and create employment opportunities. This informed the credit facility that we have just secured from
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