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An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners has completed the sale of Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a supplier of USDA-certified beef and pork products. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
The choice of food lovers across the world, Creekstone Farms supplies many of the nation’s top grocers and restaurants with a variety of high-quality meats, including Black Angus beef and antibiotic-free Duroc Pork. The Company also exports its products across Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
“We’re proud of our success building Creekstone Farms into a leading international provider of top-grade meats,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun
Mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired Random42, one of the largest global medical animation producers, from Vespa Capital.
Medical animation provides a graphic representation of disease mechanisms and the ways in which medical and pharmaceutical products interact with the human body.
Random42 provides high-quality medical animation and digital media services to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. It has expertise in 2D and 3D animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality production, interactive services and mobile application development.
As medical and pharmaceutical products become progressively more complicated, animations are needed more frequently to explain their function clearly and to
FinTech Studios, a cloud platform of AI-based financial information, FinTech apps and big-data analytic products operated in partnership with top FinTech startups, financial institutions, data providers and strategic partners, has raised USD1 million in Series Seed funding, led by KEC Ventures.
Jeff Parkinson, Managing Partner of KEC Ventures, will join the FinTech Studios board of directors.
FinTech Studios was founded in 2014 by Jim Tousignant, the Company’s CEO, who previously was co-founder and President of Multex, a leading online research and financial information platform that went public in 1999 and achieved a market cap of USD1.5 billion.
Littlejohn & Co is to acquire Cornerstone Chemical Company, a global manufacturer of key intermediate chemicals for high-value industrial and consumer applications, from an affiliate of HIG Capital. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Waggaman, LA, with a 65-year heritage, Cornerstone is a producer of a wide-range of chemicals, including acrylonitrile, melamine, sulphuric acid and other products to a diverse set of customers in high-growth end-markets. The Company operates a state of the art 800-acre chemical complex, optimally located in the U.S. Gulf Coast with full transportation and logistics capabilities, long-term onsite partners and significant infrastructure for
Middle-market private equity firm One Equity Partners is to sell East Balt Bakeries (East Balt), a global supplier of premium buns and artisanal rolls to major restaurant chains, to Grupo Bimbo for USD650 million.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Headquartered in Chicago, East Balt employs 2,200 workers who produce 13 million specialty bread products each day, including bagels, biscuits, buns, English muffins, tortillas and bread. Founded in 1955 as a single bakery with one delivery truck, East Balt now operates 21 bakeries in 11
TickSmith, a specialist in big data applications for capital markets, has announced a strategic investment of CAD2 million from Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm with a specific focus on capital markets financial technology, to further commercialise its flagship product, TickVault.
TickSmith addresses a growing need of exchanges, banks and buy-side institutions in capital markets: exploring and unlocking value from constantly growing volumes and ever-increasing sources of financially relevant data. TickSmith powers the data distribution platform of CME Group, enabling the exchange to monetise its historical data. The National Bank of Canada is also amongst its global client base.
The most vital asset a business controls is its information. As the driver of many business processes, data is a powerful tool, and therefore has to be secure, accurate and accounted for. When this sensitive information gets into the wrong hands, it can cause serious damage to a firm’s business operations and reputation.
Types of dirty data
Forgotten data poses a critical security risk to financial firms. This type of data includes old reports, archived emails, outdated customer information and information that is stored on devices you may not realise (eg flash drives, scanners, printers, and video conference equipment). Verizon’s 2008
By Jason Lawrence (pictured), IT Director and Group Information Security Officer, Augentius – Cybercrime is one of the most serious threats currently facing financial services firms. Yet, while the risk is also present for private equity and real estate funds, the level of recognition towards the threat is notably absent in this sector.
So why is this? It appears to be due to a prevailing misconception that cybercriminals do not have sufficient understanding of how funds operate and that many are too small to be of any appeal. However, a PFM report entitled Cyber Security in Private Equity: How Prepared
With Q2 closed out, new data shows public pension plans in the United States are increasingly favouring exposure to real assets and private equity strategies.
Of new investment commitments announced by US public pension plans in Q2 2017 and tracked by eVestment’s Public Plan IQ solution, 85 were for real asset strategies and 68 were for private equity. These were far-and-away the most popular new commitments announced in Q2 2017.
By comparison, private debt strategies saw 29 new commitments from public pension plans in Q2, equity strategies saw 28 new commitments in the quarter and fixed-income, hedge-fund and multi-asset
An overwhelming majority (74 per cent) of institutional and family office investors expect to allocate capital into a venture capital (VC) fund in the next two years, according to a new survey from Ariadne Capital.
Furthermore, 78 per cent said they expect to or have decided to invest directly into a high growth, technology start-up before 2020.
The survey is based on responses from 125 international investors, entrepreneurs and service providers attending Ariadne Capital’s 7th Annual ‘Follow the Entrepreneur’ Investor Summit (FTE), held for the first time in Malta on 10 and 11 July.
“The Survey results affirm
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