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All Street Research (All Street) has launched Sevva, an AI powered platform for Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) ratings.
The platform, which was developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, will deliver unprecedented hyperscale to sustainability assessments.
Sevva’s real time ratings are based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), and cover all 70,000 publicly listed companies globally, any private company, and any fund. This makes Sevva the world’s most comprehensive sustainability analysis of global capital markets.
Sevva’s Cognitive Robots instantly read millions of ESG data points from all publicly available information for every company to
Tinexta, a specialist in Digital Trust, Cybersecurity, Credit Information & Management and Innovation & Marketing services, has signed a binding agreement with Bregal Milestone, a European technology growth capital firm, with over EUR1.1 billion of asset under management, that will invest in a minority stake in InfoCert.
Bregal Milestone is part of Bregal Investments, a leading global investment firm that has invested over EUR15 billion since 2002 and currently has assets under management of over EUR12 billion.
The strategic and capital strengthening resulting from the transaction will enable InfoCert to accelerate the internationalisation process already started with the acquisition
Consolidated global investment into the InsurTech sector continues to reach new highs, with capital invested surpassing the USD10 billion mark for the first time in any one year on record.
2021 has now overseen a record-breaking USD10.5 billion raised during the first three quarters of the year. Still with three months left to go, 2021 is now only USD12 million short of the entirety of what was invested into InsurTechs globally in 2018 and 2019 combined. The total deal count was 421 which is also an annual record according to the new Quarterly InsurTech Briefing from Willis Towers Watson, a
Independent television production company Plimsoll Productions has reported a 65 per cent growth in sales in its latest financial year, while carefully navigating the challenges of the pandemic.
Plimsoll’s BAFTA, EMMY and Academy award winning team specialises in wildlife, documentary and factual entertainment shows, and is the biggest independent producer of natural history programmes in the world. Since it was established in 2013, it has produced more than 70 series for broadcasters including Netflix, Disney, Apple and Natural Geographic, and opened offices in Bristol, LA and Cardiff.
In August 2019, Plimsoll was backed by mid-market private equity firm LDC.
Certior Credit Opportunities Fund III (CCOF III) has recently held a first close at EUR83 million backed by a group of Finnish, Benelux and Spanish institutions.
The fund aims to achieve 10 per cent-plus net IRR to investors through a diversified pan-European portfolio of 100-plus senior secured loans. CCOF III will focus predominantly on the European SME direct lending segment, benefiting from special terms through seeding experienced country-specific management teams (50 per cent), often in their first or second institutional funds, and through co-investments (50 per cent). CCOF III expects to make several primary commitments to support such managers and
Cairngorm Capital Partners portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG), has acquired Perrys Builders Merchants Limited (Perrys).
Established in 2000, Perrys is a one-branch builders’ merchant supplying broad range of building materials to trade and retail customers in and around Plymouth. It is a trusted local brand, with a reputation for outstanding customer service.
This acquisition continues IBMG’s strategy of developing its divisions through a combination of acquisition, new site development and organic growth. Strategically it fulfils a long standing objective for its south west division, extending RGB’s presence into Plymouth and providing a strong platform for further growth across
HUBX, a deal syndication platform for banks and brokerage firms, has secured two new investors, Mandalore Partners and ACF Investors’ Delta Fund. They join existing investors including Barclays and Basinghall Partners.
HUBX clients and partners include Tier 1 banks, Finastra and Barclays.
The platform allows financial institutions to digitalise their syndicated lending and private placement transactions by collaborating safely with other organisations without sharing private data. This gives every HUBX client access to other client networks for deal syndication and joint bookrunning on a private basis.
HUBX simplifies collaboration between banks by allowing institutions of all sizes to quickly deploy
Glennmont Partners from Nuveen (Glennmont) has has completed its latest issuance of a Green ABS (Asset Backed Securities) in the Spanish solar market.
The underlying asset is a Spanish solar photovoltaic plant with a total installed capacity of 20MW located in the Caceres region and is one of the first ever ABS investments completed in the renewable energy sector in Spain.
Glennmont’s REBS (Renewable Energy Backed Securities) Green Credit platform continues to innovate in the green marketplace, enabling Glennmont to be among the first in the renewable energy sector to originate, structure and invest in a specialised lending instrument for
CEPRES, a private market digital platform, has launched CEPRES Due Diligence, a new product that helps institutional investors (LPs) streamline and simplify their fund due diligence to unlock better returns and reduce investment risk.
Leveraging the award-winning CEPRES data network, CEPRES Due Diligence empowers investors to evaluate more GP funds in less time with higher confidence. Users gain unprecedented access to data and analytics at fund, deal and operating company level with advanced single click analytics — all out of the box with zero IT setup required.
The product, previously available only to select CEPRES clients, will be available in
Fintech Tala has secured USD40 million in debt financing from Victory Park Capital (VPC), a global alternative investment firm. This financing follows the recent close of Tala’s Series E funding round.
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