Latest News
CEPRES has appointed Lauren Iaslovits, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of SunGard Investran, a shareholder in CEPRES since the Fall of 2019, has a Special Advisor to the CEPRES’ Board.
Iaslovits is a serial entrepreneur and well-known personality in Private Capital Markets technology. Together with her father, Jose Sinai, she founded two well-known and transformative technology companies: Sinper corporation, developer of the first OLAP engine, TM1, which through a series of acquisitions now powers IBM’s planning and analytics and data mining suite and then Financial Technologies Inc, where she created Investran, the first accounting and administration system for Private
With the UK on the brink of finally exiting the EU at the end of this week, only a third of financial professionals view the city as the world’s number one financial hub.
According to the latest Global Regulatory Outlook (GRO) report released by Duff & Phelps which surveyed senior financial sector professionals from around the world, only 33 per cent currently see London as the world’s foremost financial hub, down 20 per cent over the last two years.
New York, which also topped last year’s standings, picked up momentum this year on the other hand, with more than half
The percentage of female partners at private equity firms has been measured at 14 per cent for the third year running by employment and partnership law specialists Fox & Partners, with the PE sector lagging the broader financial industry.
Read the full story on Hedgeweek…
Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Dawn Turner as a member of the firm’s Community Housing Advisory Committee. Turner is the sixth member of the Advisory Committee, which was formed in early 2019 to provide advisory support to Man GPM’s Community Housing investment team.
Turner has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and expertise advising local governments, pension funds and impact fund managers on responsible investing. She is the former Chief Executive of the £30 billion investment management company Brunel Pension Partnership[1], a Local Government Pensions Scheme (LGPS)
SANNE has appointed San-Marie Greeff as Head of Sanne Group (Luxembourg) . and Christian Hertz as Head of LIS – a SANNE company. The appointments follow consistent growth as interest has continued to increase around the attractiveness of doing business in Luxembourg.
Effective 1 January 2020, San-Marie and Christian will be responsible for the strategic direction, management and delivery of the SANNE and LIS-AIFM Luxembourg business with specific focus on the on-going development of SANNE’s offering to ensure that clients receive superior service excellence and technical expertise.
San-Marie and Christian will lead the operations in the Luxembourg business which
Paris-based private equity investor Omnes has acquired a minority shareholding interest in Danish solar PV provider Better Energy for EUR30 million. This deal marks the first investment of Omnes’s fourth-generation fund dedicated to renewable energy, Capenergie 4, currently being raised. Omnes has announced on this occasion the first closing of Capenergie 4 at EUR380 million (EUR500 million in target size).
Omnes received strong support from its existing investor base as well as from new French and international institutional investors. The European Investment Bank is supporting Capenergie 4 as a cornerstone investor with a EUR75 million commitment, up from EUR45 million
TELEO Capital Management (TELEO) has acquired the Automated System Management (ASM) product platform and related products (Industrial Defender) from Capgemini America, Inc. Industrial Defender provides cybersecurity and compliance software solutions for critical infrastructure providers globally. The software offers a management platform purpose-built to address the overlapping requirements of cybersecurity, compliance and change management for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Industrial Defender serves Fortune 500 clients across the utility, oil & gas and chemical processing verticals. TELEO’s investment will support continued product innovation and expansion of global brand awareness.
“The market for operational technology cybersecurity is rapidly expanding and Industrial Defender, with
The Kempen Global Impact Pool has broken the EUR100 million barrier in assets under management. Launched in January 2018, the pool invests exclusively in funds that make a positive contribution to society and climate and in doing so aims to earn a financial return in line with the market. Kempen launched the Global Impact Pool in 2018 to introduce impact investing to its clients. The pool invests in high impact funds that aim to make a positive contribution around four themes: affordable and good healthcare, reliable financial services, a more sustainable food chain and affordable and clean energy in countries that
Bloc Ventures Limited (Bloc), a venture capital company focussed on early stage European deep technology investment, has raised over GBP20 million in equity funding from UK industry leaders. The latest funding round was led by Michael Spencer’s investment company IPGL Limited and supported by a number of other industry leaders including Warren East, Christopher (Jock) Miller, Gavyn Davies, Stuart Roden, and Stephen Catlin, who also serves as a non- executive director on the Bloc Board. As part of the round, Samantha (Sam) Wren, CEO of IPGL, also joins as a non-executive director.
Bloc was founded by CEO Bruce Beckloff, CTO David
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed Joe Greenwell as Associate Director of Business Development.Based in the Group’s London office, Greenwell will be responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities in both the real assets and private debt sectors. In this position, he will work closely with client-facing teams and product specialists across the Group, playing a central role in determining strategy and commercial focus in these sectors.
Greenwell joins the Aztec Group with more than 10 years’ experience supporting private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private equity clients. He is a Fellow of the Association
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
