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Dianomi, a content marketing platform used by financial advertisers and tier one publishers, has received a GBP6.3 million capital investment from BGF.
Dianomi’s proprietary technology platform matches premium sponsored content with relevant and engaged audiences across tier one business publications such as Reuters, MarketWatch and MSN.
The platform provides a brand-safe monetisation solution for publishers’ editorial content and data-driven distribution for advertisers, improving both return on investment and transparency.
The company’s turnover has more than trebled in the past two years, driven by the trend towards ‘content in context’ and online brand protection. Amid growing concerns over clickbait
Baum Capital Partners (BCP), a private investment firm that provides equity capital and strategic resources in support of dynamic companies in the lower middle market, has selected PEF Services to provide operational and fund administration services.
Working in close partnership with entrepreneurs and managers, BCP invests in technology-enabled and service-based businesses with exceptional prospects for growth. Baum Capital Partners (www.baumpartners.com) focuses on opportunities in which a financial partner is being sought to solve a corporate or ownership need, including investments to support growth, facilitate ownership transitions or enable management-backed recapitalisations.
“BCP elected to outsource fund administration to allow us to
Global investment in financial technology (fintech) ventures reached another all-time high in 2017, buoyed by a surge in funding for startups in the United States, United Kingdom and India, according to Accenture analysis of data from CB Insights.
Fintech financing rose 18 percent in 2017, to USD27.4 billion, with the value of deals in the US jumping 31 percent, to USD11.3 billion. Deal values almost quadrupled in the UK, to USD3.4 billion, and soared nearly five-fold in India, to USD2.4 billion. The number of fintech deals also rose sharply, from just over 1,800 in 2016 to nearly 2,700 in 2017, underscoring continued
L Squared Capital Partners has completed a growth investment in United Scope, resulting in a majority recapitalisation of the business.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is L Squared’s seventh platform investment in the last three years, have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Irvine, CA, United Scope goes to market primarily under the brand AmScope, which is the leading provider of microscopes and related accessories sold mostly online to a diverse range of end markets including the education sector, life sciences and other scientific research fields, as well as various industrial inspection applications. The Company’s unique modularised design strategy
Ramón van Heusden has seen a lot of changes in real estate investing over the last 14 years he has worked in Luxembourg. Over that time, van Heusden has held three different roles, each one of which has involved working with international real estate and private equity funds.
“What I’ve seen over the last couple of years, in particular, is an exponential growth in clients moving to large single platforms with a lot of connectivity to other systems, moving away from holding and managing data in multiple systems and specific silos,” says van Heusden (pictured), now Head of Client Services
Volatility finally roared back to abnormally tame markets, but most institutional investors were already bracing for impact; their efforts to diversify and build durable portfolios should now pay off, according to new survey findings released by Natixis Investment Managers.
Seventy-eight per cent of institutional investors expected stock market volatility to spike in 2018, and they are making opportunistic allocations to active management and alternative investments in order to meet average long-term return assumptions of 7.2 per cent this year.
That’s according to a new survey by Natixis Investments Managers’ Centre for Investor Insight of 500 institutional investors around the
Catalyst Development, a specialist financial markets consultancy, has acquired investment management consultancy Knadel.
The deal is the first in a series of planned strategic acquisitions by Catalyst, with the combined group forecast to almost double business revenues in the coming financial year. The acquisition follows investment from mid-market private equity firm Livingbridge in October 2017.
Knadel provides business and technology consulting across the full range of the investment industry. Since launching in 2009, Knadel has worked on circa 400 projects with over 120 different clients. With offices in London and Jersey, Knadel works with firms who have UK, European
Heitman LLC (Heitman), a global real estate investment management firm, has appointed Tony Smedley as Managing Director, Head of European Private Equity.
In this role, Smedley will lead Heitman’s European Private Equity group and is tasked with broadening the scope of the firm’s European operations while continuing to serve its clients in meeting or exceeding their European real estate investment objectives.
Smedley brings with him nearly 30 years of experience in real estate and investment management. Prior to joining Heitman, Smedley was the Head of Continental Europe for Schroder REIM where he provided leadership, direction, and management for fund
Barings Real Estate has expanded its European asset management and transactions team with the appointment of Guillaume Bieganski as Director, Asset Management & Transactions.
Bieganski, who will be based in Barings’ Paris office, will support the development of the business in France and will report to Séverine Laffineur, Head of France.
Bieganski joins from Abenex (formerly ABN AMRO Capital France) where he was a Director overseeing the launch and development of the Company’s real estate activity. Between 2013 and 2016, Guillaume served as a Portfolio Manager for Standard Life Investments where he was responsible for asset management and acquisitions in
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice-Backed Motor Fuel Group (MFG), has acquired MRH, the UK’s largest petrol station and convenience retail operator in a transaction valued at approximately GBP1.2 billion.
The deal will create the UK’s No1 operator by number of sites and No2 by fuel volume.
MFG and MRH together will operate more than 900 sites, which are predominantly company-owned and franchisee-operated and manage third-party fuel, convenience, and foodservice brands. These include fuel brands BP, Esso, Jet, Murco, Shell and Texaco and retail brands Budgens, Costa Coffee, Greggs, Spar and Subway, as well as the MRH-owned brand, Hursts. On a
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