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Assetz Capital has added a new private fund for institutional investors, in collaboration with a specialist marketplace lending fund manager.
The fund gives institutional investors and family offices an additional and dedicated channel to invest in loans on the Assetz Capital marketplace. Established in Luxembourg, the private fund is eligible to institutional, professional or other well- informed investors, and will use an existing, cost-efficient fund structure.
Investors in the fund will participate in a portfolio of short-term UK loans to SMEs originated by Assetz Capital – with around 90 per cent coming from regional geographies outside London. All loans are
Hermes Investment Management has appointed Kevin Roche as a Director for Private Debt and CLO’s. Reporting to the Head of Direct Lending, Laura Vaughan, Roche will be based in London and will work across the private debt platform.
The private debt team manage European and UK direct lending strategies focused on senior-secured loans in the mid-market space. Co-lending partnerships with partner banks in the UK and Europe provide a strong origination pipeline which is utilised in conjunction with the team’s own pan-European reach.
In his new role, Roche will help to develop the Hermes business globally within private debt.
OpenFin has raised USD17 million in Series C funding from major banks and leading Fintech investors. The funding round was led by Wells Fargo with participation from Barclays and existing investors including Bain Capital Ventures, JP Morgan and Pivot Investment Partners.
The Series C round brings OpenFin’s total amount of venture funding to USD40 million. Proceeds from the financing will be used to make OpenFin OS ubiquitous on financial desktops and to fund further product innovation. This includes OpenFin’s new Cloud Services offering, which enables banks, asset managers, wealth managers and hedge funds to provide their own private app stores
KPS Capital Partners (KPS) is to acquire Howden from Colfax Corporation for an enterprise value of USD1.80 billion, comprising USD1.66 billion in cash consideration and USD0.14 billion in assumed liabilities and minority interest, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Howden is a leading global provider of mission critical air and gas handling products and services to the industrial, power, oil & gas, and mining industries. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Howden has a 160 year heritage as a world-class application engineering and manufacturing company with a presence in 32 countries. Howden manufactures highly engineered fans, compressors, heat exchangers, steam turbines, and other
Global investment bank GCA Altium has strengthened its Manchester team with two promotions and two new hires.
Mark Smith has been promoted to Director, after five years at GCA Altium. Mark has advised on over GBP700 million of transactions in the last year, including the investment in UKFast by Inflexion in a GBP406 million deal, and the sale of Sofology to DFS Furniture Plc.
Alongside this, Phil Chadwick has been promoted to Vice President, having worked at GCA Altium for two years, and has recently been involved in advising on deals including UKFast and the backing of Cloud Technology
The Maples Group, a service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has appointed Edwin Parker as Director of Business Development for the fund services business in Europe.
Parker brings over two decades of experience working with alternative and institutional asset managers and asset owners across Europe, as well as extensive knowledge of front and back office services and systems. He was most recently a Managing Director for a global investment management and investment services provider, responsible for all business and relationship development in EMEA. Prior to that,
Channel Islands independent director services business Altair has appointed Matt Wood as a director in Guernsey.
Wood will take on a pivotal role in driving forward Altair’s growth strategy in the Channel Islands as it looks to support the governance and oversight needs of a rising number of businesses across Guernsey and Jersey.
With over 20 years of financial services experience, particularly in the fund administration sector, Guernsey-based Wood joins Altair from Sanne where he was a Private Equity Director and Guernsey Country Head. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of State Street’s Alternative Investment Solutions.
Wood originally trained
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has promoted Paul Conroy to Group Head of Real Assets and Private Debt.
In his new role, Conroy (pictured) will assume overall responsibility for the development, growth and delivery of the Group’s real assets and private debt service offerings. He succeeds Mark Wanless, who has been appointed Chief Operating Officer.
Leading a multi-jurisdictional team of over 160 real assets and private debt administration professionals, Conroy will oversee client relationship management, operations and business development across real estate, infrastructure, asset leasing and private debt.
In his previous role, Conroy was Head
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched IRIS+, a new system for impact investors to measure, manage and optimise their impact. IRIS+ reduces confusion, increases comparability, and makes it easier to communicate impact results.
With the industry’s rapid growth and increased calls for precise tools, investors are eager for streamlined practical guidance on how to measure and manage their impact. IRIS+ gives investors an easy-to-use system, including sets of core metrics around certain key themes such as clean energy access, financial inclusion, health, and affordable housing.
Utilising IRIS+, investors can identify evidence-based metrics that will be most relevant to their
Panoramic Growth Equity has sold portfolio company Quill to French media group Webedia.
Quill’s production model combines a global network of over 2,400 freelance copywriters with an advanced technology platform, allowing it to create highly effective content in any language, at unparalleled speed and scale.
It has rapidly established itself as the leader in the ecommerce content production sector, with flagship global clients including Tommy Hilfiger, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Google and Amazon.
Since its launch in 2011, Quill has raised investment from Smedvig Capital, Panoramic Growth Equity, and an influential group of digital entrepreneurs who have previously backed
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