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European mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) is to acquire Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services (Knowledge Services), a provider of bespoke research, analytics and automation technology to the financial services sector, from Moody’s Corporation.
Established in 2014 through the merger of the Moody’s subsidiaries Copal Partners and Amba Research, Knowledge Services provides various market-leading customised knowledge services, in domains such as investment banking, investment research, private equity & consulting and commercial lending. The business, headquartered in London and operating across nine delivery centres worldwide, employs a specialist workforce of subject matter experts working as an extension of clients’ teams.
Preqin’s private equity data will now be available via FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications. Subscribers will be able to access the data via the FactSet workstation, allowing users to integrate private market data into their workflows.
Clients will be able to see an integrated live feed of Preqin data on private equity fund managers, investors and performance alongside FactSet’s own datasets. This will enable users to conduct in-depth analysis of private equity performance, powered by both Preqin and FactSet data, all in one platform.
Preqin’s Global Head of Partnerships, Ayo Akindele, says: “We are very
Frontier Development Capital (FDC), an established fund manager operating debt funds in England, has relocated its Birmingham headquarters.
The firm has moved its operations and 25 staff from Baskerville House to a 5,246 sq ft office on 45 Church Street in the heart of the city’s business district.
FDC provides access to investments of up to GBP10million, deploying flexible capital to mid-market businesses across England. After making five new staff appointments in the last 12 months, the relocation will provide the firm with the space it needs to continue its expansion.
The move follows several high-profile deals such
SANNE, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate services, has further extended its global reach with the opening of a new office in Mumbai, India.
With existing offices in 18 leading international finance centres, SANNE now has a local presence in one of the world’s fastest growing alternative markets and is also pleased to announce the appointment of Khushboo Chopra (pictured) as Head of Business Development – India.
The opening of this new office expands SANNE’s already strong network of offices across the EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Americas region and adds further capability and scope to the services SANNE
Latin American investment bank Banco BTG Pactual, together with Dubai-based asset manager Dalma Capital, are to utilise the Tezos blockchain for security token offerings (STOs), including the ongoing REITBZ STO.
By utilising the new platform for digital securities transactions, the financial institutions address a deal pipeline in excess of USD1 billion for existing and prospective token issuances – with an outlook to utilise Tezos to tokenise a wide variety of traditional and alternative investments.
As governments worldwide and in the Middle East take measures to introduce digitalisation initiatives across industries, blockchain spending globally is to reach USD2.9 billion this year, and USD307
The ability to predict and shape the long term success of global takeovers is often seen as the ‘holy grail’ for CEOs, investors and their advisors, and a new report from chartered accountancy body ICAEW and Drooms reveals that some key decision making may soon be taken away from humans and guided instead by the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in many stages of a deal process.
The report, AI in Corporate Advisory, is the first in the world to specifically address the application of AI to corporate deals – which in 2018 involved transactions worth USD4 trillion globally.
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To gain an advantage in today’s hyper-competitive world, asset managers must not only evolve their operations, but they must also discover new ways to leverage them. Managers must be operationally adept; particularly in a business that grows more costly and complex, they need an infrastructure that will equip them to better meet client needs, satisfy regulators and compete more effectively.
The Maples Group has been selected to provide Cayman Islands legal advice and trustee, management company, fund administration and directorship services to Indo-Japan Emerging Technology & Innovation Fund.
The Fund will invest substantially all of its assets into Indo-Japan Emerging Technology & Innovation AIF (the FoF), a USD187 million fund-of-funds managed by Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Ltd (RNAM), the Indian asset management arm of Nippon Life. The Fund will be offered in Japan to Japanese institutional investors.
The FoF is the result of a joint initiative between Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and India’s Ministry of
SANNE, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate administration services has obtained a new bookkeeping licence in China expanding its existing product offering in the country.
SANNE can now offer bookkeeping, accounting and tax preparation services for Chinese registered entities.
Jing Jing Qian (pictured), Managing Director, Asia-Pacific says: “We are delighted to have obtained this new licence. It underlines SANNE’s trusted reputation as a global leader in providing fund accounting and corporate administration services and aligns with our expansion plans as we double our head count in China, strengthening SANNE’s commitment to the Chinese market.”
Mark Law Chief Commercial
Apex Group (Apex), has successfully closed the acquisition of the Corporate and Private Client Services (CPCS) and Throgmorton businesses of Link Group’s Asset Services division.
The acquisitions add over 600 employees and 6,000 clients to the Apex Group, across multiple markets, and bolsters Apex’s corporate services capabilities adding specialist hubs in the UK, Jersey, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Hungary and Switzerland.
Over the past eighteen months, Apex has continued to expand its capabilities to meet client demand successfully executing a programme of strategic acquisitions to deliver on its ambition to offer a unique end-to-end solution for global asset managers
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