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Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has extended its Managed Services offering to include regulatory filings for hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative asset managers.
IVP RAPTOR is a regulatory technology solution supporting over USD375bn in regulatory assets under management. IVP Managed Services will use this technology for supporting the regulatory filings of its clients.
Coverage will include all major regulatory filings, including Form PF, 13F/D/G, CPO-PQR, CTA PR, Form ADV, Form 3, 4, 5, the upcoming AIFMD for Europe, EMIR, European Short Sale Reporting and TIC-B reporting.
IVP Managed Services uses IVP’s technology solutions as the backbone
Gousto, the recipe box delivery company, has closed a GBP5m (USD8.3m) Series A round, led by Unilever Ventures with existing investor MMC Ventures.
Each week Gusto’s customers select three of ten chef-developed recipes. Gousto then delivers a box to the customer’s door with all the ingredients needed to cook the meals from scratch.
Gousto will now be able to increase investment in innovation and product development.
Jan Harley, director at Unilever Ventures, brings to the board his experience as a founding member of the venture arm of Unilever. He will join existing board members Jon Coker of MMC
HIG Growth Partners has sold a majority of its affiliate’s investment in SpotXchange to RTL Group.
SpotXchange is a video advertising platform offering premium publishers holistic yield management in order to maximise revenue for desktop, mobile and connected TV inventory while driving down operational costs.
The company was first to market with its real-time bidding solution for video advertising and has continued to enhance its programmatic publisher solutions to ensure transparency, brand safety and real-time control for its partners.
“HIG has been an exceptional partner to SpotXchange as we have grown and expanded our market offerings,” says Mike
Altium has appointed Simon Chambers and Richard Clark as managing directors of its new UK debt advisory practice.
Chambers and Clark, both previously at DC Advisory, join their former DC Advisory colleagues Johannes Schmittat, Norbert Schmitz, Gerd Bieding and Thorsten Weber, who have been leading Altium’s debt advisory practice in Frankfurt since 2012.
Prior to joining Altium, Clark spent 13 years at Close Brothers, Houlihan Lokey and latterly DC Advisory. He has advised both private equity and corporate clients on a range of transactions including acquisition financings, refinancings, dividend recapitalisations, staple debt financing, and restructurings across a variety of
Delta Partners Capital’s Delta Partners Emerging Markets TMT Growth Fund II is to invest up to EUR10 million in Virgin Mobile Central and Eastern Europe (VMCEE).
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and CEE Mobile Capital (spearheaded by Dick Kiphart of KGC Capital) are also participating in the funding round.
VMCEE is an early-stage Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) providing broadband mobile services to the youth.
Delta Partners Capital, based in Dubai, is the investment arm of Delta Partners Group (DPG), an emerging markets-focused telecoms, media, and digital
Law firm HowardKennedyFsi has advised the luxury fitted furniture group Canburg on its GBP8m investment from the Business Growth Fund.
Canburg is the owner of two luxury fitted furniture businesses – Smallbone of Devizes and Mark Wilkinson Furniture
The GBP8m investment follows overseas growth and will enable Canburg to accelerate its domestic and international growth strategy. It will also create 40 new jobs in Canburg’s UK showrooms and workshop in Devizes, Wiltshire.
The Business Growth Fund is a growth capital investor backed by five of the UK’s major banking groups – Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Standard Chartered.
Cayman Islands-based boutique corporate governance services firm Highwater has expanded its team of directors with the appointment of Yolanda Banks McCoy.
McCoy, who will be based in Cayman, has over 19 years of financial services experience.
Prior to joining HighWater, she was the head of investments and securities division of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) since November 2006. She was responsible for the regulation and supervision of hedge funds, fund administrators and securities investment companies operating in or from the Cayman Islands, as well as ensuring sound compliance and market conduct in accordance with Cayman Islands regulatory laws
The stockmarket outperformance of family businesses is being described as the “Family Premium” in a report by leading academics at the IE business school in Madrid.
Yet ironically ‘family businesses’ – those quoted companies where an individual or family holds at least 20 per cent of the company’s shares and at least one family member is on the board of directors – generally trade at a discount to non-family companies.
The 2014 report, “Banca March – IE Business School, The Family Premium in listed European businesses: is it really a consequence of the family dimension of the company?” attempts to
WeiChaiShi, China's largest mobile crowdtasking platform, has closed a USD3.2 million round of financing led by ClearVue Partners and joined by Nokia Growth Partners.
The funding will further drive WeiChaiShi’s growth as it continues to expand its team, build its partner network and add new features.
ClearVue Partners is a private equity fund targeting fast growing and promising consumer companies in the Greater China region.
Crowdtasking is different from crowdsourcing in that it compensates mobile device users to complete a task – rather than just to provide and share information.
"This infusion of capital is a tremendous
IBC Capital, an affiliate of investment firm KKR, has completed the acquisition of packaging solutions company Goodpack.
As part of the acquisition, Goodpack was delisted from the Official List of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST) on 15 September.
Goodpack’s management team will look to leverage KKR’s global network to penetrate new verticals and increase sales in existing markets. Goodpack will also benefit from the expertise of KKR Capstone, an independent team of operational executives who work exclusively with KKR and its portfolio companies, to identify opportunities to unlock and create greater value.
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