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Startupbootcamp FinTech has partnered with three more financial services organisations – financial services outsourcing provider arvato Financial Solutions, investment firm Route 66 Venture, and Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo.
The new partnerships will provide Startupbootcamp FinTech with pilot customers, industry data, and capital and brings the total number of partners involved with Startupbootcamp FinTech to seven.
Lloyds Banking Group, MasterCard, Rabobank and SBT Venture Capital were all announced as partners earlier this year.
The 10 finalists for the 2014 Startupbootcamp FinTech programme were selected late last month by a panel of judges, including Startupbootcamp FinTech partners. The finalists
The success rate among small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) applying for finance has risen to 80 per cent in 2014 up from 71 per cent in 2013, according to research by Albion Ventures.
Despite more SMEs receiving the funds they need to grow, the second Albion Growth Report shows that just one in ten SMEs tried to raise finance in the past 12 months compared to 17 per cent last year.
The study, which is designed to shed light on the factors that both create and impede growth among UK SMEs, shows a 25 per cent fall in the
Pact Coffee has secured a GBP2m Series A funding round, led by MMC Ventures.
This funding round sees MMC join existing investors Connect Ventures, as well as angel investors Ian Hogarth, founder of Songkick; Robin Klein of Index Ventures; and Rowan Gormley, founder of Naked Wines.
Founded in 2012 by Stephen Rapoport, Pact Coffee delivers freshly roasted coffee from around the world to its community, with the aim of getting the UK drinking better coffee. Based in Bermondsey, the Pact team is 32 strong. It raised seed funding in March last year. This latest funding round will see a
Arlington Capital Partners has sold Virgo Holdings, an integrated business-to-business information services company, to Informa plc.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Virgo is focused on delivering content within the fast-growing natural products, communications, healthcare and business solutions industries via live events, electronic and print media products, and online platforms. Currently, Virgo produces six trade shows and conferences, publishes nine trade websites and six affiliated magazines, and operates online training and accreditation programs as well as branded online stores.
“Since our acquisition of Virgo in 2008, we have worked closely with the entire management team to accelerate the company’s digital media
Private equity firm ClearLight Partners has sold portfolio company Apple & Eve to Lassonde Industries for a total cash consideration of USD150 million, subject to adjustments for working capital and other items.
Founded in 1975, Port Washington, NY-based Apple & Eve is the largest privately held producer of 100% fruit juice products in the United States. The Company offers more than one hundred different juice products sold under its iconic flagship brand name, Apple & Eve, and includes a portfolio of sub brands including Organics, Fruitables, Quenchers, Waterfruits and Sesame Street. Additionally, it owns and markets juices under Northland, Seneca
Weinberg Capital Partners has sold Alliance Automotive Group to private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the original founders of the automotive parts distributor.
Alliance Automotive Group is a leading player in the independent automotive aftermarket in France and the UK, operating under the brands GROUPAUTO France, GROUPAUTO UK, Partners, Gef’Auto and Précisium. Alliance Automotive Group is an integrated company with its own buying organisation and a wholesale distribution network comprised of its own subsidiaries and independent distributor members. The Group has 1,500 outlets and 3,500 employees.
Alliance Automotive Group has demonstrated its ability to grow through acquisitions while preserving
Online alternative investment and private securities marketplace FNEX has appointed Neal Wolkoff to its Advisory Board.
FNEX.com is an online marketplace for alternative investments, including placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts launched in September 2013. The innovative web-based platform provides accredited investors, family offices and institutions access to investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the United States.
Todd Ryden, CEO of FNEX, says: "The wisdom and wealth of experience in launching and running and regulating successful exchanges and marketplaces that Neal brings to the table is invaluable and something that FNEX will immediately
Johan Terblanche has joined global law firm Dechert as a partner in the financial services group. Terblanche, who was most recently a partner at Loyens & Loeff, will be resident in the firm’s Luxembourg office.
“Our Luxembourg office has doubled its business over the last four years,” says Peter Astleford, global co-chair of Dechert’s financial services group. “The arrival of Johan will help continue this trend and will herald an additional focus on US and UK promoters wishing to utilise Luxembourg as a private funds base.”
"Johan is a great addition and with his deep experience on both Luxembourg
Carey Group has become the first listing agent in the world not based in the Cayman Islands to become a Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) listing agent.
Being based in the same time zone as London gives the Carey Group Guernsey team a significant advantage over all other CSX listing agents with respect to servicing European and MENA based clients.
As both a listing agent of the CSX and a listing member of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE), Carey Group’s Guernsey fund services business now has the unique capability to offer clients the choice of two recognised stock exchanges.
St George’s University today announced that it has received a substantial equity investment from a group led by Canadian investor Altas Partners and a fund advised by Baring Private Equity Asia.
The Altas-led investment group and the fund advised by Baring Private Equity Asia are investing in partnership with St. George’s current management team, led by Chancellor Charles R Modica, who co-founded the University in 1976. Dr. Modica will remain in his leadership position, and he and the other current owners of the University will collectively remain the largest shareholder. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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