Accelex, a SaaS platform for alternative investment data, has made two key additions to its global sales team – Simon Tang has joined the company as its new director of business development in North America, and Marco Loiacono as the new director of EMEA Sales, based in London. Each will be responsible for expanding and servicing Accelex’s growing client base of asset owners, asset servicers, fund of funds, secondaries investors and advisors in their respective regions.    Prior to joining Accelex, Tang spent nearly a decade as a director at CEPRES, a private markets data and analytics firm, where he

Eaton Partners has launched Eaton MarketPlace, an online community showcasing a variety of alternative investment opportunities currently being marketed by Eaton Partners. Eaton MarketPlace is aiming to modernise the fund placement process and empower institutional investors to streamline how they uncover and evaluate potential private capital market investments. Eaton MarketPlace enables pre-qualified institutional investors to survey new investment opportunities and interact with Eaton representatives on their own timetable. 

CI Global Asset Management (CI GAM) has partnered with HarbourVest Partners (HarbourVest) to offer an investment solution providing Canadian accredited investors with access to a diversified global portfolio of private infrastructure investments. HarbourVest has 40 years of experience in private markets investing, including a successful 14-year track record in infrastructure investing through economic cycles and varied market conditions.

Jupiter Exchange, an alternative asset exchange using fractional NFT technology, has closed on a $5 million seed funding round led by White Hilt Capital. Jupiter curates iconic objects and makes fractional ownership available to anyone through its digital marketplace and exchange. Jupiter Exchange establishes a simple process where the ownership of each carefully curated item, such as fine art, cars, sneakers, and pop culture memorabilia, is minted as an NFT and fractionalized into individual ownership tokens. Once sold out on the Jupiter marketplace, the item is listed on the Jupiter Exchange and available through a traditional bid-ask model.

Investment management platform-as-a-service Quay Partners Investments (Quay) has added Joe Vittoria and Sarah Donnelly to its team to provide a new regulatory hosting service. The independent, standalone solution for new clients will operate under the trading name of Vittoria and Partners (V&P) and will support the compliance and risk oversight that current clients experience and provide scale to further grow the regulatory hosting business, including clients who solely require regulatory services. This partnership is structured to ensure long-term client relationships are maintained and strengthened while allowing for strategic evolution as the two parties become more familiar with each other. Quay

Babel Finance, a wholesale crypto financial services provider, has completed an $80 million Series B financing round at a valuation of $2 billion. The main investors in this round include Jeneration Capital and 10T Holdings, as well as existing shareholders Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital. Other investors include Circle Ventures and a number of family offices in the Asia-Pacific region. Babel Finance is one of the largest service providers to institutions in the crypto financial markets. The company limits its business to BTC, ETH and stablecoins, and serves a select clientele of about 500 customers. At the end of 2021,

Acuity Knowledge Partners’ (Acuity) FolioSure digital platform is transforming portfolio monitoring by enabling the accurate tracking and comparison of portfolio company performance. FolioSure can be fully integrated into existing tech stacks and processes enabling private equity and venture capital (PE&VC) firms to take full control of their portfolios’ lifecycles. FolioSure has multiple features, including a built-in cash flow engine to calculate gross and net total value to paid-in capital and the internal rate of return using fund cash flow, industry benchmarking for portfolio companies, foreign currency conversion and completely configurable reporting templates for limited partner reporting. 

Parameta Solutions, the data and analytics division of global inter-dealer broker TP ICAP, has announced that BT Radianz Cloud is now carrying SURFIX feed. SURFIX is an industry-leading service that enables customers to receive all TP ICAP market data in real time via a single, consolidated API feed rather than through multiple different feeds. The data encompasses the Tullet Prebon, ICAP and PVM brands and includes data sets covering Rates, FX, Money Markets, Energy & Commodities and other high quality, scarce market data.   Radianz Cloud links a global community of brokers, institutions, exchanges and clearing and settlement houses to

To better help asset managers of European funds be prepared for the upcoming compliance requirements and regulatory disclosure obligations under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), global Fintech leader.