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EV Group-backed Rowan Group has added to its new Lancashire team with the appointment of Sarah Cottam as Senior Consultant.
Cttam, who joins from SF Group where she held the title of Recruitment Consultant, will primarily be responsible for placing newly qualified ACA, ACCA and CIMA accountants through to Financial Controller roles for the senior financial recruitment division, Rowan Finance.
The Manchester headquartered business, which opened the new office in Chorley in September, reports that under the leadership of Associate Director, Carl Meyler there has already been several key placements for ambitious SMEs across the Lancashire region.
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The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) are to make a joint allocation of up to GBP500m to invest in infrastructure opportunities.
The agreement is a significant step for both GMPF and LPFA. It allows the funds to increase their investment in infrastructure, deliver long-term returns that match their liabilities and provide much needed investment in major UK infrastructure projects.
Over the next three or four years, the pension funds will seek to make investments and hold them over the appropriate period for each individual investment. They will use their local presence in
KKR has acquired Trainline, the UK’s online platform for selling rail tickets to both consumers and businesses.
Trainline is the most downloaded travel app in the UK and its website ranks 5th by gross transaction value in the UK e-commerce sector. The company has 4.7m active customers, 20.8m visits per month and operates platforms for both consumers and businesses. Trainline is licensed to sell rail tickets on behalf of all UK Train Operating Companies, Deutsche Bahn and Trenitalia.
Doug McCallum, Chairman of Trainline, says: “Our vision is to transform Trainline into a leading international ecommerce platform and an indispensable partner
On Deck Capital has launched OnDeck Marketplace, a platform that enables institutional investors to purchase small business loans originated by OnDeck and drive small business success.
The general availability of OnDeck Marketplace comes after a one-year pilot program with a group of inaugural institutional investors, including asset managers, hedge funds and business development companies. To use the platform, each institutional investor opens its own OnDeck Marketplace account, purchases loans on a programmatic basis, and then receives daily principal and interest payments from the loans it owns. OnDeck services the loans institutions purchase, making the process seamless, transparent and efficient.
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Former BBC Newsnight anchor, Jeremy Paxman, will be asking the questions about the prospects for the international funds industry when he moderates this year’s Jersey Finance funds conference.
Entitled ‘Winning Moves,’ the annual conference, which will be held i London on 19 March, will provide an analysis of the current global funds marketplace, the changing regulatory landscape and the role of alternative fund domiciles as the global industry meets the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Jeremy Paxman will be chairing two panel sessions during the course of the conference and will also make the closing remarks.
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Investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has made a trio of senior hires.
Nick How joins the firm as Corporate Finance Director. As an experienced corporate financier and broker, Nick provides expert advice on IPOs, fundraisings and M&A, as well as ongoing equity market-related matters and investor relations. Most recently a partner at Oriel Securities, he was Head of UK Corporate Finance at Kaupthing and previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort and Hoare Govett.
Hugo Chance joins Zeus Capital as Director and Head of Family Offices. In this role, Hugo is responsible for the firms top high net worth private clients
Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is to acquire a majority interest in Walgreens Infusion Services.
With more than 30 years of experience, Walgreens Infusion Services is one of the nation’s largest providers of home and alternate treatment site infusion services and is considered an industry pioneer. Walgreens Infusion Services’ broad geographic footprint includes 89 infusion pharmacies and 110 alternate treatment sites in 40 states, approximately 4,700 employees and the ability to serve more than 90 percent of the US population. Its clinical personnel, including nurses, pharmacists, technicians and dieticians, treat patients who are managing a broad range
Norwegian private equity firm Herkules Capital has selected the iLEVEL Private Capital Data Platform to streamline its portfolio monitoring process and to create more efficiency in its investor reporting process.
Herkules Capital invests in companies based in the Nordic region, primarily in Norway.
“After a thorough analysis of the portfolio monitoring systems available in the marketplace, we selected iLEVEL. It will allow us to maintain most of our data in a single platform, where we can easily access it for investment analysis, marketing and quarterly investor templates,” says Adele Norman Pran, CFO of Herkules. “iLEVEL will take a resource intensive
Codestreet has secured significant minority investments from leading venture capital firms, Rochester Advisors and Cerium Technology.
The investments will help accelerate the growth of the Codestreet Dealer Pool (“CDP”), the firm’s dealer-centric platform for solving the liquidity challenges of the corporate bond market.
Codestreet provides a range of technology solutions for fixed income front-office professionals, all with the primary purpose of optimising dealers’ use of capital and increasing riskless-principal business. The new investment will fast-track product development, as well as fund the hiring of an expanded sales and marketing team to significantly enlarge the global footprint of the 11 year-old
Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Symbio SA on its sale to VXI Global Solutions, LLC, a portfolio company of Bain Capital.
Symbio is a leading Outsourced Product Development (OPD) company that specializes in high-quality software development services for a broad range of Fortune 500 companies. VXI is a leading provider of business process and IT outsourcing services. Together, the combined company will be able to address the entire end-to-end customer value chain by providing all processes from customer sales and services to product development and service delivery. The combined company will employ 17,000 experts across the
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