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finnCap Cavendish (Cavendish), part of financial advisory firm finnCap Group, has advised on the sale of Sentenial Group and its open banking brand Nuapay, an end-to-end payments platform specialised in account-to-account transactions, to EML Payments, an Australian-listed payments technology company for EUR108 million.
Through its regulated subsidiary Nuapay, Sentenial operates in the fast-growing European-open banking sector. The Group powers a complete set of payments for credit transfers, direct debits, instant payments and open banking. Over EUR44 billion worth of transactions is processed annually across 37 countries, with some EUR1/4 trillion processed to date.
Under the Sentenial brand, the Group’s original
European law firm Fieldfisher has appointed Thomas Colmer as a partner in its corporate team in London.
Thomas joins Fieldfisher from PwC’s multi-disciplinary practice, where he has worked for more than five years leading the UK Legal Deals and Private Business team.
Thomas trained and worked at Norton Rose before becoming Head of M&A and General Counsel at global FinTech group ION Trading. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP as a partner, he also practiced at Osborne Clarke.
He has wide-ranging expertise focusing on high-growth corporates, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and founders in multiple sectors, particularly in technology, financial services and
Leading global general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) have launched the ESG Data Convergence Project to advance an initial standardised set of ESG metrics and mechanisms for comparative reporting.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) led the collaboration which includes GPs and LPs representing more than USD4 trillion in AUM. The group includes LPs: AlpInvest Partners, APG, CalPERS, CPP Investments, Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, PGGM, PSP Investments, The Pictet Group, Wellcome Trust; and GPs: Blackstone, Bridgepoint Group Plc, Carlyle, CVC, EQT AB, Permira, and TowerBrook Capital Partners LP.
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Aviva, has announced a GBP10 million investment, and a five-year extension to its innovation partnership with Founders Factory to support new start-ups in the UK.
Founders Factory is a global venture studio and accelerator that was co-founded by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox in 2015. Since its inception, over 200 businesses have been created and accelerated through the Founders Factory and have gone on to raise more than GBP400 million in funding.
Aviva has been Founders Factory’s strategic partner in the FinTech sector since 2016. In the next phase of the partnership, Aviva and Founders Factory will support the
Prometheus Alternative Investments has raised USD5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
The round was led by 8VC/Joe Lonsdale with participation from a diverse set of prominent investors including Kyle Bass (Hayman Capital), Gaingels, John Quinn (Quinn Emanuel), Gil Weisblum (family office of Barry Diller), Jared Rothman (family office of Dennis Washington), Thane Ritchie, Curtis Macnguyen (Inflection Capital & Ivory Capital), Kim Kolt (For Good Ventures), Alok Agrawal (Bloom Tree Capital), Chris Blum (Global Head of Equities at JP Morgan Wealth Management) and Khalid Malik (Meridiem Capital).
Founded by former star hedge fund manager Michael Wang, Prometheus brings together a
A new metric looking at the performance of private equity and venture capital funds has revealed a strong industry internal rate of return (IRR) of 19.6 per cent and Total Value to Paid In multiple (TVPI) of 1.9x for funds that started investing over the last decade.
African Capital Alliance (ACA) has acquired a stake in Africa’s leading multi-brand QSR group, Food Concepts Plc (Food Concepts), from pan-African returns and impact-driven private equity firm DPI.
The deal will see the sale of 31 per cent of Food Concepts by DPI, a pan-African returns and impact-driven private equity firm with a strong track record of investing across the continent and USD2 billion AUM, to ACA. ACA is a pan-African alternative investment firm focused on managing investments across sub-Saharan Africa, with USD1.2 billion AUM. DPI will retain ownership of a majority stake in the Company.
Commenting on the deal, David
Apex Group has launched a new digital marketing platform, Apex Profilir (Profilir), which offers clients a modern approach to investor relations, incorporating a digital marketing platform designed to connect LPs and GPs and support the capital raising process.
Following the acquisition of SaaS platform Senasen, Apex Group has rebranded the digital marketing platform as Apex Profilir, to reflect its unique offering, specifically designed to enhance relationships between Investors, Asset Managers and Companies by connecting them instantly and providing a means to for more efficient, meaningful and productive relationships. Market demand for secure and user-friendly digital engagement channels has risen following
Cybersecurity specialist BlueVoyant has acquired global professional services and big data solutions consultancy, Concanon, to provide the services and solutions to further empower Splunk customers worldwide and to maximise their investments in Splunk Cloud Platform.
With this acquisition, Concanon becomes a standalone but wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueVoyant. Concanon will coordinate services through BlueVoyant’s Modern SOC for Splunk® Cloud Platform, featuring 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR), and powered by BlueVoyant’s 24/7 cloud-based managed security operations center (SOC).
The acquisition will enable Concanon to expand their services to Splunk customers to optimize their investment and accelerate migration to the Splunk Cloud
The Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) has partnered with Triple Point Investment Management, an Investment Manager for Digital 9 Infrastructure (D9), a London Stock Exchange (LSE) listed investment trust.
Triple Point is a UK-based Investment Manager with over GBP2 billion under management and employs over 150 people. Since 2004, Triple Point has been active in areas such as energy efficiency, social housing, and digital infrastructure, unlocking investment opportunities that make a difference. Each of Triple Point’s strategies looks to solve societal challenges, and each creates opportunities for investors.
D9 is an investment trust, listed on the London Stock Exchange, managed
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