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Global Alliance Wealth Management, an alternative investment management firm with offices in New York and Hong Kong, has extended its Alternative Solutions Platform, soon to become available for accredited investors and private clients.
Since 2008, Global Alliance Wealth Management has provided its global client base with access to alternative investment and private equity management solutions.
Extending on the company’s services, the Alternative Solution Platform will seek to deliver long-term capital appreciation whilst managing volatile frequencies throughout global equity markets. The extension of service is backed by a strategy that was previous available only to qualified purchasers of the company’s alternative
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, is to sell Zabka Polska to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners.
The transaction is subject to customary competition authority clearance and is expected to close in Q2 2017.
The Zabka sale is the largest ever transaction in the Polish food retail sector and the largest ever private equity exit in Poland. Together with the Alpha exit announced earlier this year, Mid Europa is poised to return over EUR1.1 billion to its investors during Q2 2017.
Robert Knorr, co-managing partner of Mid Europa and
data.world, the social network for data people, has closed USD18.7 million in venture capital funding at double the valuation of its previous round.
This second round brings the total amount of capital raised to USD32.7 million and places data.world among the technology sector’s top five venture-backed Certified B Corporations of all time.
The new capital will be used to fund rapid progress toward the company’s mission to build the most meaningful, collaborative and abundant data resource in the world.
The round was led by Pat Ryan’s family investment group and includes capital from Chicago Ventures, Fyrfly Venture Partners,
Amethis Finance and Metier have teamed up to acquire a significant minority stake in East African packaged food business Kenafric Industries.
The Kenafric Group was founded in 1987 by Velji Punja Shah and his four sons.
The group has grown to emerge as a major FMCG group in East Africa, having diversified into confectionery, footwear, culinary and stationery manufacturing.
This transaction is limited to the confectionery and culinary business and the Shah family will continue to operate the footwear and stationery business separately.
Amethis has a long-standing relationship with the Shah family and the transaction developed as
Total funding for US fintech companies and deal activity dropped significantly in 2016, down to USD12.8 billion from USD27 billion in 2015, a result of political and regulatory uncertainty, a decline in megadeals and investor caution.
That’s according to KPMG's Q4 2016 The Pulse of Fintech report, which reveals that despite the drop in total funding for US fintech, 2016 was the third strongest year for fintech investment and second highest year for venture capital (VC) fintech investment.
On a global basis, total fintech funding declined by almost 50 per cent, falling to USD25 billion in 2016 from USD47 billion
Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial adviser to Evidon, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, on the sale of its Ghostery consumer assets to Cliqz.
Cliqz is a Munich-based web browser provider with integrated search engine owned by Hubert Burda Media and the Mozilla Corporation.
The Ghostery assets include the popular anti-tracking browser extension and mobile app, with 10 million active users around the globe.
Euronext has announced the launch of Euronext Family Business, the first European index dedicated to family businesses, designed to highlight the performance of 90 family companies listed in the four countries covered by Euronext.
Components of the Euronext Family Business Index are selected from listed companies in compartments A, B and C of Euronext and on Alternext. To be eligible, candidates must meet criteria defining family businesses as determined by Euronext, with no limit on size or sector.
The criteria include the requirement that the physical person(s) who created the company, or the physical person(s) who acquired the company capital,
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise-class big data and finance analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, has appointed Tilman Sayer as chief information officer.
Sayer (pictured), who will report to managing director Nick Ellis, will lead the strategic development of ALA’s new and market-leading ALA OneLogic financial analytics suite which includes models for behavioural, emotional and sentiment-based trading and portfolio optimisation models.
“There is a rising importance to financial enterprise use of big data analytics in the markets, in addition to our ALA OneLogic compliance, big data and financial analytics solutions, we
KKR is to acquire a stake of up to 40 per cent in Telxius, a critical telecom infrastructure owner and service provider in Europe and Americas.
The deal implies an enterprise value of EUR3.678 billion and is subject to the customary closing conditions.
Telxius owns and operates a large portfolio of nearly 16,000 telecommunications towers in five countries. It also manages an international network with approximately 65,000 kilometres of submarine fibre optic cables, of which around 31,000 kilometres are owned by Telxius. Both business units benefit from growth in their core markets, as the use of mobile data and
RegTech firm Qumram has secured further investment of CHF1.5 million from the technology-focused venture capital firm Mundi Ventures.
Headquartered in Madrid, Mundi Ventures has operational presence in Barcelona, London and Seattle.
In addition to providing due diligence support, Mundi Ventures will boost Qumram’s growth strategy by facilitating access to corporate executives, new markets, and new customers. Through this investment partnership, Qumram will gain access to the Mundi Club, a global network of more than 500 Spanish business leaders, located in 41 cities worldwide, including board members of Havas, Kering, Merck, Bertelsmann and Nestle, as well as the CEO of
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