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Apex Group Ltd has closed its acquisition of Sanne Group (Sanne), a global provider of alternative asset and corporate services for £1.5 billion.
Lionpoint and Accelex have formed a strategic partnership aimed at delivering end-to-end operational efficiency to the Private Markets industry.
As the sector continues to grow, Private Markets investor’s demands are increasing. There is a clear need for more capable technology solutions delivering more automation while, at the same time, driving better informed investment decision making.
Lionpoint and Accelex share a similar vision and approach to the development and improvement of operational efficiency for the acquisition, analytics, and reporting of investment data.
iCapital, a global fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, has completed the acquisition of SIMON Markets. The transaction meaningfully broadens iCapital’s investment menu, technical capabilities, education offerings and support services for advisors and their clients.
Through this acquisition, iCapital will create a single source of alternative investment strategies from nearly 300 asset managers and product manufacturers, adding SIMON’s structured investments, annuities, digital assets and risk-managed products offerings to iCapital’s extensive menu of private offerings including equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, direct deals, hedge funds, and other alternative strategies.
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OrBit Markets, an institutional liquidity provider in crypto options and structured products, has raised $4.6 million in an angel funding round led by Matrixport, a digital assets financial services ecosystem, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, New Form Capital, Maven 11 and Westridge Markets in this oversubscribed round.
As the digital assets market evolves, more investors and DeFi users are exploring advanced options strategies for investment and yield enhancement, but few market makers are able to provide liquidity in these complex products. Even in traditional finance, such capabilities are concentrated in the hands of a few global investment banks. OrBit
Qontigo, a global provider of risk analytics and index solutions, has partnered with CEPRES, a specialist in private market investment technology and data, to develop a suite of private market factor risk models for unique insights into private capital fund risk in multi-asset class portfolios.
The private market factor models will provide broad coverage of the private asset space in Qontigo’s enterprise risk management system, Axioma Risk. Through the combination of CEPRES’s verified private fund cash flow data and Qontigo’s industry-leading Axioma Factor Risk Models, asset managers and asset owners will receive deep insights across both public and private assets
Accelex, a SaaS platform for alternative investment data management, has expanded its relationship with LGT Capital Partners (LGT CP) to support the processing of a new document category: fund financial statements.
Edelman has launched Edelman Smithfield, a financial communications boutique that specialises in financial markets and strategic situations, serving clients in the United States, EMEA, Asia and beyond.
Red Mountain Capital Partners (Red Mountain) has launched Red Mountain Capital Advisors (RMCA) and Red Mountain Securities (RMS), an investment banking platform focused exclusively on providing advisory services for middle market public and private companies and their owners.
RMCA and RMS represent the evolution of Red Mountain from an investment management firm that invested in middle market and small cap public and private companies, adding value by offering constructive advice to their management teams and boards, to an investment banking advisory firm with an owner’s perspective and an emphasis on value creation.
RMCA is led by Founding Partners Chris Teets,
Zug-based fintech firm Alphanect has launched Alphanect Selection, an all-new curated portfolio of private market products for wealth managers and investors.
Japan, a digital platform providing access to alternative investments including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and private credit. Has now raised $1.8 million in funding having closed am angle funding round backed by both domestic and foreign VCs and angel investors.
The investors that participated in the angel round consist of nine individual angel investors and the following five VCs: East Ventures; FINOLAB; Launchpad Fund/Headline Asia; Plug and Play; and Saison Ventures.
LUCA Japan completed a demo version of its digital platform and is currently in discussions with potential B2B users for its implementation. LUCA Japan has also launched
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