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Peer-to-peer platform Assetz Capital has lent GBP200 million since launching in 2013.
The alternative finance platform helps small and medium-sized British businesses and property developers acquire funding and is now providing secured loans totalling as much as GBP26 million per month and lent over GBP45 million in the last quarter of 2016.
The milestone caps a record year for Assetz Capital, in which over GBP108 million was lent in 2016, earning investors a total of GBP17 million of interest since the business launched. More than GBP500 million is now available and ready to lend through the platform to credit-worthy businesses.
Funds managed by Inflexion Private Equity have completed the GBP40 million buyout of MyPolicy, a UK’s telematics insurance broker.
Founded in 1995, MyPolicy provides broking, product design, pricing and monitoring of telematics motor insurance policies for first time drivers and other niches in the UK.
MyPolicy has developed proprietary risk algorithms to analyse and interpret telematics driver data, applying this through its underwriting capacity and broad channels to market.
Inflexion is backing Patrick Quinn, CEO. As part of the buyout, Inflexion has supported MyPolicy’s succession plans, enabling co-founder Mike Quinn, to transition out of the business.
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Independent Growth Finance (IGF), a commercial finance provider for SMEs, has appointed Nick Price as chief financial officer (CFO).
As CFO, Price is responsible for helping to deliver on the company’s ambitions to support more SMEs across the UK and empower these businesses to grow. Whilst creating this atmosphere of growth, Price must ensure IGF’s financial risk is appropriately managed and stakeholder management remains strong.
Before joining IGF, Price held the interim CFO position at OakNorth, following a six year career at Close Brothers where he was finance director for the commercial division. His previous employment includes KPMG, Goldman
ACA Technology Solutions, a provider of investment management and regulatory technology solutions, has released ComplianceAlpha, a cloud-based platform designed to assist chief compliance officers with managing their compliance programme tasks and activities.
ComplianceAlpha is designed to help compliance teams automate processes and manage their day-to-day activities.
A secure cloud-based application organised by functional modules, ComplianceAlpha allows a CCO to meet the firm’s business needs from virtually anywhere.
This release includes the Compliance Management Platform and Marketing Review Solution modules. These modules, offered together or on a standalone basis, integrate risk assessment and regulatory requirements; compliance controls, policies, calendars,
Firelight Capital Partners has launched a “first of its kind” investment firm model, which provides companies with private equity-based investment and operations expertise along with brand and marketing oversight and resources.
The company was started by former senior private equity partners from well-known private equity firms, together with the founders of creative agency YARD.
Firelight offers capital and capabilities in infrastructure-building and omni-channel investment strategy, including wholesale, e-commerce and retail, as well as brand and marketing strategies. Firelight is dedicated to unlocking growth and cultural resonance in lower-middle market consumer-branded companies across a range of retail categories, including apparel and
Orrick Rambaud Martel has appointed M&A and private equity adviser Guillaume Kessler as a partner in Paris.
Kessler joins Orrick from Olswang where he served as managing partner of the Paris office and head of the Paris corporate group.
"We are delighted to continue to grow our French corporate practice with a practitioner of Guillaume’s calibre," says Saam Golshani, head of Orrick’s French M&A and private equity group. "He is a recognised player in the French market, with particularly deep ties to the technology sector and a go-to source for the private equity market. We’ve worked across the table
San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP), a private equity firm focused on expansion-stage companies in the consumer industry, has acquired a majority stake in organic spices and seasonings company Red Monkey Foods.
SFEP will partner with founder and CEO Jeff Brinkhoff and his team to capitalise on the strong momentum in the business.
Red Monkey Foods is a provider of premium organic spices, seasonings and other natural dry food products. Operating out of a facility in Springfield, Missouri, the company manages gourmet store brand programmes for many of the nation’s largest food, mass and specialty retailers. The company has a
Inflexion has supported two bolt-on acquisitions through its investee businesses Reed & Mackay and CableCom.
Reed & Mackay has expanded its US presence acquiring the Chicago based Gray’s Travel Management. Reed & Mackay is a corporate travel management company delivering a personalised service through cutting edge technology.
The acquisition enables Reed & Mackay’s clients to benefit from an enhanced service offering through extended global reach, enhanced buying power and deeper local market knowledge.
Mark Williams, partner, Inflexion, says: “We are delighted to complete our first acquisition for Reed & Mackay within six months of our investment. This builds
BayWa r.e. has sold the St Fraigne wind farm, 140 kilometres north of Bordeaux, to FPCI Capenergie 3 fund managed by Omnes Capital.
This follows the sale of the 8 MW St Congard wind farm to Omnes Capital in August 2016.
The wind farm with a total output of 12 MW consists of 6 Enercon wind turbines of type E82 with a hub height of 108 metres. In 2013, the wind turbines were equipped with "trailing edge serrations". The comb-like rotor blade add-ons provide a significant reduction in sound emissions.
Since its commissioning in 2011, BayWa r.e. has
The International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) has launched IVS 2017, which will serve as the key guidance for valuation professionals globally.
The guidance aims to underpin consistency, transparency and confidence in valuations, which are key to investment decisions as well as financial reporting.
The launch is the latest step in IVSC’s mission to raise standards of international valuation practice as a core part of the financial system, for the benefit of capital markets and the public interest.
The standards have been created following an extensive consultation process from April to October 2016. More than 100 official comment letters
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