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Novasec has launched a new investment platform, which connects investors with unique opportunities in the fast-growing renewable energy sector.
Through a careful project selection process, Novasec’s platform combines the renewable energy sector with digital securities, providing investors the potential for lower-risk, competitive returns.
“Novasec is proud to help fund the future of the energy industry, offering accredited investors access to attractive renewables opportunities,” says Michael Tishler, CEO and Co-Founder. “Our team of professionals brings together experience from across the financial services, private equity and renewable energy industries, which has allowed us to build a unique end-to-end platform that will benefit
A survey conducted on preparation for the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime, (SM&CR) has revealed that most firms have significant work to do, as they prepare for its extension to all authorised firms on 9 December.
From a pool of over 70 respondents, including asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, broker-dealers and wealth managers, the findings were as follows:
• Less than 2 per cent of firms confirmed they had completed sufficient preparation for SM&CR
• In equal measure, only 2 per cent of employees had a sufficient awareness of the new rules and their implications across the organisation
• More than a quarter
Drawbridge Partners, a premier cybersecurity services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has launched DrawbridgeConnect, an automated management platform which allows firms to manage all aspects of their cybersecurity program.
Complementing Drawbridge Partners’ current services offering, the platform allows firms to ensure regulatory compliance and satisfy investor demands. Users can extract data in real time to evidence their cyber risk posture to current and potential investors.
DrawbridgeConnect allows users to easily aggregate internal cyber risk assessment data to drive analysis and determine program strength and remediation, create and manage a resilient program to fulfil
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management solutions, has expanded its treasury and portfolio finance solutions to support private markets fund managers.
Hazeltree Private Markets is a purpose-built cash management and investor interactions solution to improve operational efficiencies and controls, reduce risk and exposure, and drive performance opportunities.
Hazeltree Private Markets automates the lifecycle of cash management from multi-bank and internal systems aggregation to projections of known and potential cashflows to automated cash movement suggestions in line with client-configured algorithms to the execution and movement of funds across a client’s banking eco-system. Hazeltree provides treasury teams with full transparency of
Intertrust, a provide of tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has expanded its services in the United States.
Clients with US domiciled legal entities and affiliated transactions now benefit from Intertrust’s local Funds and Capital Markets services, led by former BlackRock Director, Deirdre Hochman, and an expanded team of experts. The Funds and Capital Markets team in the US spans time-zones providing clients with extensive knowledge of local and global services.
The expansion leverages Funds Services technology adopted through Intertrust’s recent acquisition of Viteos, as well as new proprietary software
At nearly USD8 trillion, the US defined contribution (DC) retirement market remains one of the largest – and growing – opportunities for asset managers. From 2007 to 2017, net assets grew by 67 per cent, increasing by USD3.1 trillion.
RFA has come a long way since it first opened for business in 1989. Now the firm, which has over 800 clients, is one of the biggest cloud providers to the alternative investment sector, offering state-of-the-art cybersecurity services and fully managed IT and CTO consultancy services.
Much of RFA’s success can be attributed to the ethos of the firm, which takes a consultative, rather than product-led approach to client requirements, most of whom, as Managing Director George Ralph (pictured) points out, come via word of mouth. Ralph works alongside chairman, Richard Fleischman, president, Yohan Kim and CIO, Michael Asher.
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US Capital Global Securities, an affiliate of US Capital Global, is offering to accredited investors a USD10 million equity investment in CityBlock Capital’s first tokenised venture fund, NYCQ Fund LP, as the Fund’s exclusive placement agent.
US Capital Global Securities recently added the Fund to its own expanding portfolio. The Fund has holdings in leading names in the FinTech and blockchain infrastructure arena, including Coinbase, Bakkt, Nomics, and Tagomi.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Coinbase’s global revenue last
Crypta Labs has completed a GBP2.7 million (USD3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and includes GBP1,000,000 (USD1.3m) debt finance from Innovate UK.
Crypta Labs is a quantum cybersecurity company which develops IP, hardware and related software using the quantum properties of light to secure highly critical data and communication devices embedded in critical infrastructure for the aerospace, communication, medical, military, and transport sectors.
The investment will allow Crypta Labs to further the development of its Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG) IP portfolio and to bring to market the first Quantum-enabled Hardware Security Module (QHSM) ensuring critical infrastructure remains secure
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the burgeoning cryptoasset industry, has closed its first equity funding round, led by North Island, the investment firm of prominent technology investor and Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, along with his son, James Hutchins.
After launching the Digital Assets Data platform with a USD6 million raise in its seed round earlier this year, this new injection of capital is an extension to the seed foundation and brings the total funds raised by the company to USD9.2 million.
The Digital Assets Data platform provides asset managers and other market participants
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