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Fidante Capital, the international capital markets business of Fidante Partners, has appointed John Armstrong-Denby as Head of Corporate Finance in its London office.
Armstrong-Denby has over 18 years’ experience advising and investing in listed investment funds. Most recently, Armstrong-Denby was a Managing Director in the corporate finance division of Edmond de Rothschild, where he actively advised a range of clients on strategies to grow AUM in listed and unlisted fund offerings, while also providing proactive strategic advice to fund boards. Armstrong-Denby has previously held similar senior positions with ING Bank, Intelli Corporate Finance and ABN AMRO Hoare Govett. Armstrong-Denby started
The proliferation and growing sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) could have serious implications for how cyber criminals coordinate attacks on the global economy. In what is already an unending arms race, with global corporations trying in vain to stay one step ahead of criminals and hactivists, the potential benefits of using AI and machine learning tools to develop new attack methods could be substantial.
That said, there could also be benefits to those whose job it is to keep firms safe and limit the scope and severity of attacks. Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder of information security firm CrowdStrike, was recently
Assetz Capital has now reached a record number of loans available to investors using its Manual Lending Account (MLA), with well over 200 live loans with loan parts available for immediate investment on the secondary market.
The MLA allows hands-on investors to build a diversified portfolio of hand-picked loans that suit their personal investment preferences. While Assetz Capital also offers both access and automatic diversification accounts, it has always maintained a manual lending option – and the size of its current loan book makes this a more attractive proposition than ever before.
As the company nears the GBP0.5 billion
Cornerstone Partners Group has acquired a 10 per cent stake in luxurious co-working space Colony. The deal values the company, started by prominent entrepreneur Timothy Tiah, between USD15-USD20 million, representing a four-times return for its early investors.
The eight-month old company has raised a total of USD5 million to date and is looking to open more locations in Kuala Lumpur this year after having its first location at Jalan Kia Peng turn profitable in its first three months.
Cornerstone Partners Group which owns hotel assets around Asia including the DoubleTree Resort by Hilton in Penang, the Kimpton in Taipei
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the midmarket, has acquired UBEO Business Services, a provider of printer, copier, and related office equipment sales and services in Texas.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, UBEO is a provider of best-in-class document management equipment and related services. UBEO facilitates business technology integration by offering the newest, best, and most innovative ideas in hardware and software solutions to its customer base of approximately 6,000 mid-sized businesses, schools, and municipalities. With a team of more
Blue Bay Travel, an online luxury travel agent specialising in long-haul holidays to the Caribbean, Mexico and Indian Ocean, has celebrated a record start to 2018 by increasing year-on-year sales by 71 per cent and securing a record numbers of bookings made in a single day, week and month.
The business, which has been backed by mid-market private equity firm LDC since February 2017, has also continued to invest in its technology platform, increased headcount by 30 per cent, expanded its office space, and launched its premium Xclusivity brand to provide a broadened geographic and bespoke product offering to customers.
Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has held the first close of its third digital fund – Idinvest Digital Fund III – at EUR180 million.
The first close of the fund has exceeded that of its predecessor, Idinvest Digital Fund II, which raised EUR154 million, and the fund is targeting a final close of EUR300 million. Idinvest Digital Fund III is backed by a number of existing and new European LPs.
The new fund, managed by a team of nine investors, will finance European businesses with high growth potential and support serial entrepreneurs in the following sectors:
Scandinavian equity crowdfunding platform FundedByMe, which has a network of 110,000 investors, is expanding into Poland with the opening of a new office in Warsaw on 17 April.
The new Polish office, which will be headed by Maciej Gajewski, is the fifth international market location beyond Sweden where the platform is headquartered.
“The aim of our platform is to connect individual investors and entrepreneurs. In Poland, we are looking for the most innovative startups that are targeting international markets and seeking to raise EUR100,000 to EUR900,000 in Sweden and other countries. We are going to help Polish companies reach the Nordic market, as
From risk management to regulatory reporting and trading and execution to cybersecurity and compliance, technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in the investment and asset management space. And at GFM, we want to salute the key players who are delivering outstanding tech-based products and services to the industry with the new GFM FundTech Awards.
Following the same unique peer-review format as our respected Hedgeweek Awards, our simple online survey lets you, our readers, nominate the stand-out companies and service providers in a wide range of categories. The companies polling the most votes/nominations will then be invited to receive their awards
New data shows that, once biases are eliminated, European venture capital has consistently matched the performance of US funds over the past 20 years.
European venture capital funds are often compared unfavourably to their US peers, but the latest analysis from eFront shows that this consensus has been reached through a biased analysis of data, and European VC funds have matched the performance of US funds over the past 20 years.
According to eFront’s data, the all-time pooled IRR US venture funds is nearly 10 percentage points higher than for European ones at 14.35 per cent versus 4.95 per
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