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Contego Fraud Solutions has raised GBP900,000 in the firm’s latest investment round, following early investment in 2012 by seed angels and the Cass Entrepreneurship Fund.
The total raised to date is GBP1.4m.
Investment has been secured from the Rainbow Seed Fund; the Angel CoFund; select business angel groups London Business Angels, Surrey 100 and Thames Valley Investment Network; and new angels who have joined existing angels following-on in this round. Matt Slatter and Howard Sarna, experienced angel investors, have both invested and will join the board.
Contego is a software platform that performs due diligence and risk analysis
Private equity investor New Mountain Capital is to acquire talent acquisition and management specialist Alexander Mann Solutions for GBP260m.
The transaction is subject to EU Competition Commission approval.
New Mountain is investing alongside management who have a significant ownership stake in the company. New Mountain will support Alexander Mann Solutions to further develop its integrated offering of outsourcing and consultancy services which help international organisations to attract, engage and retain their people.
Alexander Mann Solutions was founded in 1996 by Rosaleen Blair (pictured) who will remain as chief executive, supported by her management team.
“This is an
Brookfield Asset Management has held the final close on Brookfield Infrastructure Fund II with equity commitments totalling USD7bn.
The fund will invest in infrastructure, with a focus on transportation, renewable power, utilities, and energy assets in North and South America, Europe and Australasia.
Commitments to the fund exceeded the original USD5bn fundraising target. Investors in the fund include a diverse group of institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, insurers, and public and private pension plans. The fund has over 60 investors, half of which are first time investors in a Brookfield fund. Brookfield committed USD2.8bn to the fund.
A group of US investor angels, venture capital firms and major private equity funds will visit Europe next November to meet with European companies seeking funding, equity or project partners.
Firms like Softbank Capital, Rand Capital, K5 Launch, The McLean Group, Maverick Angels or Global Energy Capital will participate in a business meeting to probe the activity and conduct meetings with European companies that are seeking both seed capital (in the case of start-ups, especially in technology), funding for large projects (primarily energy and aerospace), or venture capital investment to boost growth.
The US investment market set its sights
Amanda Rowland, partner and head of asset management regulation at PwC commenting on the announcements made at the 2013 FCA asset management conference that took place on 30 October…
No-one in the asset management industry should be surprised at the FCA's focus on the use of dealing commissions. But today the FCA has extended its work to include banks and brokers as well as buy-side firms. Given these institutions have been less involved in the debate on dealing commissions to date, this is likely to cause a stir amongst some firms.
On fund charges, the FCA may focus less on
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds and alternative investment firms, has released the next generation of its Eze Disaster Recovery (Eze DR) service.
The new version of Eze DR features advanced technology to deliver more aggressive Recover Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and enhanced testing to ensure clients can resume operations after a disaster.
Eze DR is a fully managed disaster recovery solution used by hedge funds around the world. The newest version incorporates hypervisor-based replication technology to replicate, in near real-time, a client’s virtual production environment
The Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) is planning to restructure.
Jon Moulton (pictured), chairman of the CISX, says the exchange is seeking to introduce a new and improved operating model in around a month's time.
Fiona Le Poidevin, chief executive of Guernsey Finance, says: “Clients should have confidence that the team at the CISX will not only evolve the exchange in such a way that serves the investment community very well going forward but also that service standards remain of the highest quality in the intervening period. It is positive that the CISX is ensuring business continuity and we will
Patton Boggs has established a public finance practice and enhanced its private fund investment and infrastructure transactions capabilities with the addition of four attorneys – three in its New York office and one in Washington DC.
Joining the firm in New York are Alphonso E. (Al) Tindall, Jr., Sani A. Williams and Deborah Hartmann Henry.
Joining the firm in Washington DC is Alethia N. Nancoo.
Nancoo and Tindall join as partners, while Williams and Henry join as of counsel. The group brings extensive experience in international, domestic and municipal public and project finance, private fund investment and infrastructure
Roth Capital Partners, a full service investment bank focused on serving emerging growth companies, has launched an online investment platform called OpenRound.com.
OpenRound.com aims to simplify the “road show” for growth stage companies and creating access to accredited investors. By leveraging the internet, accredited investors residing around the world can find, review, engage with and invest in growth stage companies. OpenRound makes this process more accessible and transparent by providing an online investment platform.
“This is a logical extension of our business of supporting small-cap public companies. Following passage of the JOBS Act, more innovative companies are utilising the
KAP Group is growing its advisory capabilities with the hire of Erin Roeder as vice president.
This expansion will enable KAP to broaden the firm's reach while maintaining its client-focused approach.
Since the firm's inception in 2009, KAP's experience includes advising over 25 real estate and private equity managers seeking institutional capital, creating a service that allows clients to focus on the operational aspects of their business while KAP handles the advisory and procedural aspects of their capital raise. KAP's clients have generated over USD3bn in capital commitments through commingled funds, joint ventures, and separate accounts.
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