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Optima Partners has appointed compliance industry veteran Portia Amato as a Director in the firm’s New York office.
Amato (pictured), brings nearly two decades of experience in providing compliance services for the investment management industry. In her new role, Amato will be responsible for maintaining client relationships and working with management to drive further growth for the firm, which has more than 500 clients including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms, broker dealers, and global banks.
Before joining Optima, she was a Compliance Officer at DRA Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm specialising in real estate
AVORA, an enterprise analytics platform powered by native machine learning technology, has raised USD6.5m (GBP5.1m) in a Series A funding round led by Albion VC and existing investor Crane.
A number of previous backers also followed on including Dr Steve Garnett, former Chairman EMEA Salesforce.com, and Stephen Kelly.
AVORA has already built an impressive client base, including Telefonica, OMD, NPR, HBO LatAm and Ocado. The UK start-up will use the funds raised to expand its leadership and sales teams, launch in the US market and continue to evolve its technology by enhancing its in-platform machine learning algorithms. The financing
Maitland has enhanced its fund administration platform with the adoption of the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s (ILPA) reporting template.
Released in 2016, the ILPA reporting templates were designed to report and gather information in a standardised manner so the private equity industry can effectively measure and compare performance in areas including fees, expenses and carried interest.
As the private equity industry continues to grow, the ILPA templates provide investors with a higher level of transparency and consistency in reports. “
Maitland has been automating the entire waterfall through a system- generated platform. With the added certification, we are able
NTR has added a portfolio of just over 200 MW of operational and pre-construction onshore wind projects in Sweden and Finland to its NTR Renewable Energy Income Fund II.
The portfolio comprises three operational projects totalling 94 MW and one advanced stage development cluster totalling 108 MW potential capacity in southern Sweden. Total capital investment, including the build out of the development cluster, is expected to be in excess of EUR180 million. NTR acquired the portfolio projects, called Vindin, from a consortium of nine Swedish industrial companies.
“Sweden and Finland represent exciting new geographies for the fund, each having
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, and PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, have formed a strategic partnership through which PitchBook’s private market fund performance data is now available in the eVestment Private Markets platform.
The partnership offers eVestment Private Markets users the ability to access PitchBook’s fund-level performance data for more than 6,700 private market funds and 3,100 firms within the eVestment Profiles module – a global database of private markets firms. Additionally, users can leverage PitchBook Benchmarks, the data provider’s stand-alone performance measurement product, in their research and quantitative assessments
BGF provided a record investment of almost GBP50 million into AIM-listed companies in 2018, bringing total funding in AIM-listed firms to GBP150 million across 43 companies.
Funding into AIM-listed companies includes investments in structured and equity investments in businesses located across the UK, operating in a range of sectors, including biotech, chemical technology, manufacturing and energy.
In addition to supporting companies with initial investments, such as Manchester’s genedrive – which received funding from BGF to accelerate the commercial traction of its HCV-ID Kit – BGF also made additional investments into its own portfolio companies, including Accsys Technologies, which is
ZEDRA, a specialist in trust, corporate and fund services has opened its third Swiss office, in Zug, to support its other Swiss businesses based in Zurich and Geneva.
ZEDRA says the three offices will work closely together, with company registration, accounting and legal services all eventually available from the new location.
ZEDRA’s Managing Director for Switzerland, Stuart McLuckie (pictured), says: “Our new Zug office will give us the additional means to support a range of specialist Swiss corporate business. It is therefore an important strategic step for us.”
Vadim Neumann, Managing Director of ZEDRA’s Zurich operations, adds: “Since
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has completed an investment in LIST, a developer of software solutions for the financial industry.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
LIST is a provider of trading and compliance software solutions and infrastructural services to a wide range of financial institutions. The company’s trading and brokerage platform offering, FastTrade, supports operations in a multi-asset and multi-market environment with modules for pricing, quoting, hedging, position keeping, algorithmic trading and execution management in high and low-touch business environments. LIST’s capital markets, governance, risk and compliance solutions are used by more
Quest Hunter, an escape room marketplace, has opened a public fundraising round on Funderbeam, a cross-border fundraising and trading platform for private companies.
Quest Hunter is focused on becoming the single reference point for real life escape room entertainment, enabling anyone to discover, experience and love these immersive games all over the world. In this fast-growing market, where escape rooms are often run by lean teams of one or two individuals, Quest Hunter provides operators with seamless customer support and consumers the ability to find the right escape room opportunity for them and book easily online.
Originating in Japan,
creditshelf AG, a specialist in digital SME financing in Germany, has appointed Dr Gregor Heinrich as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective from 15 January.
In his new role, Dr Heinrich will be responsible for IT and data analytics. He will report directly to creditshelf CEO Dr Tim Thabe, but will not himself be a member of the Management Board.
Heinrich has more than 10 years’ experience as a CTO, most recently at Stonebranch, a mid-size provider of products and services for the automation of IT processes, focusing on the financial services industry. His responsibilities at Stonebranch encompassed product development
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