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Gateway Private Markets (HK) Limited (Gateway), specialists in direct secondary investments in growth and late-stage private technology companies, has selected RegTech provider Know Your Customer to deliver digital onboarding to its clients.Working with a large number of financial intermediaries and institutional investors in Asia, Gateway was looking for a comprehensive, reliable and easy to implement technology solution to streamline its investor onboarding process and KYC checks.
The implementation of Know Your Customer’s end-to-end KYC solutions is aimed at simplifying, accelerating and automating the most time-consuming aspects of the investor onboarding process, while strengthening overall regulatory compliance through innovation.
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has appointed Shvetank Shah as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Shvetank previously worked at Gartner where he held many leadership roles including Senior Vice President of its Technology & Service Provider practice. Shah will be based in ACA’s Silver Spring, MD office.
As ACA’s CEO, Shah will oversee all global operations and the corporate growth strategy. His responsibilities will include executive leadership, management, strategic vision, and accelerating the growth of the business.
Shah has almost 30 years of experience as a business unit General Manager, strategic advisor,
Hedge fund and private equity investors to focus 2020 due diligence efforts on alternative data compliance, says Corgentum survey.The vast majority (83 per cent) of hedge fund and private equity investors intend to continue increasing the resources they allocate to analysing compliance procedures surrounding alternative investment managers use of third-party research including expert networks.
That’s according to the results of a new survey by Corgentum Consulting, a provider of operational due diligence reviews and background investigations.
In particular, investors believe that a key focus in 2020 will be on the security and privacy considerations surrounding hedge funds and private equity
Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business decisioning data and analytics, has acquired Orb Intelligence, a prominent digital business identity and firmographic data provider. “The acquisition of Orb Intelligence cements our strategy to link the digital and physical worlds in the largest global repository of B2B data, and to provide enriched firmographic data to customer profiles to help our clients more effectively execute campaigns to improve customer interactions and revenue returns,” says Michael Bird, President, Sales & Marketing Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet. “Clients can rely on Dun & Bradstreet as the one-stop-shop for all of their data-driven, decision-making and customer engagement
Umbra Capital Partners, a modern merchant bank, has launched with a focus on ‘advising, improving and investing’ primarily in UK SMEs.
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been selected to provide depositary services to Stafford Capital Partners, an international real assets and private markets investment and advisory group.Serving more than 80 institutional investors across the globe, including the UK, continental Europe, the USA and Australia, Stafford Capital Partners has over USD5.3 billion of assets under management. The firm’s investments span the agriculture and food, credit, infrastructure, private equity, sustainability, timberland and venture capital sectors.
The partnership will see the Aztec Group act as a depositary to 13 investment vehicles and over USD1.9 billion in assets, providing a
Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues its growth in France with the creation of a Valuation and Modelling business line (Valuation Services).With the launch of this new business line, A&M France now has 85 employees as of 1 January, 2020, a number which has grown from a team of 30 in October 2018. A&M France offers seven areas of expertise to companies and private equity players:
• Transaction Advisory Group
• Private Equity Services
• Corporate Transformation Services
• Financial Industry Advisory Services
• Disputes & Investigations
• Restructuring & Turnaround
• Valuation Services
Over the
Nordic investment manager Storebrand Asset Management (Storebrand) has selected Northern Trust as asset servicing provider to its AIF and UCITS funds domiciled in Luxembourg.
Smartlands, a global security token issuance and investment platform is to tokenise its own Holding company, Smartlands Holding Ltd, and for the first time offer shares tokenised on the Smartlands platform to US investors.
Valued at USD28,600,000 (pre-money), the company will make 3.5 per cent of its equity stake available to investors worldwide, including accredited investors in the US. Smartlands is looking to raise USD1,000,000 and use the funds for global expansion, development of the newly released digital payment product Smartee, and distribution of the first Smartee Co-owner payment cards.
The security token offering will be conducted in partnership with
With a predicted USD275 billion of investment expected from US wireless providers over the next few years, not to mention up to three million new jobs and an annual USD500 billion GDP boost for the US economy, it’s no wonder that 5G is being a dubbed truly transformative technology. And as James Williams finds out, private equity investors are keen to help finance the revolution…
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