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Credit advisory and investment specialist Venn Partners has launched Venn Risk Analytics (VeRA), its proprietary financial analysis platform for structured finance products.
VeRA has been rolled-out over the past six months with a number of financial institutions to advise on some GBP2bn of asset-backed securities (ABS). The platform is now being presented to a broad range of potential clients, including portfolio and risk managers across a variety of institutions such as banks, insurers, institutional investors and alternative funds.
In summary VeRA allows clients to:
• Demonstrate a high level of governance for risk management and reporting
Evolution Capital Partners, a Cleveland based small business private equity firm, has adopted Navatar Private Equity CRM to manage its opportunity pipeline and deploy funds most effectively.
Evolution Capital Partners invests growth capital nationwide in second stage companies, providing the necessary resources to successfully navigate the critical transition through No Man’s Land.
"Our approach to investing involves a deliberate and defined process," says Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner, Evolution Capital Partners. "The Navatar platform allows us to efficiently manage this process which supports our core values and ultimately allows us to better serve our investors and growth
Kazyna Capital Management (KCM) has gone live with eFront’s flagship solution for managing private equity investments, FrontInvest.
This implementation marks the first foray for eFront into the alternative investment market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Kazakhstan, Samruk-Kazyna, and based in Almaty, KCM’s primary mission is to develop the private equity market in Kazakhstan. As a fund of funds, KCM invests in local and regional Kazakhstan-focused funds.
KCM sought to rapidly modernise its investment monitoring operations, which were heavily dependent on Excel and various manual processes. KCM
Napier Park Global Capital has chosen Options’ PIPE Core and Momentum services as its fund’s technology infrastructure.
Napier Park is an independent asset management firm with approximately USD6.8bn under management and more than 110 employees in offices in New York and London. The firm manages a diversified product mix, including hedge funds, bespoke client solutions, CLOs and private investing for institutional investors globally.
Napier Park will use Options’ PIPE Core and Momentum services, key components of the Options’ Private Financial Cloud platform. PIPE Core is a complete business technology infrastructure service providing a robust and resilient technology
Options, provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud, a managed infrastructure platform for the trading and alternative investment communities, has expanded connectivity to additional global foreign exchange markets and has upgraded connectivity between the major US trading venues.
With these additions, Options now provides clients with high performance and highly available connectivity to more than 60 markets, including ultra-low latency connectivity in the NJ2 and NY4 data centres to Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, Currenex, Deutsche Bank, EBS (ICAP), FXAll, Reuters Dealing, UBS and Hotspot FX (Knight).
"Our new connections to global FX markets reflect our ongoing strategy of
Lyceum Capital-backed Access Group, the business management software provider, has acquired Tech City start-up Sazneo for an undisclosed sum.
The transaction represents Access’ ninth add-on since Lyceum Capital invested in the company in March 2011.
The deal for the online communication and collaboration technology, likened to Chatter and Yammer, follows the launch of Access aCloud, Access’ SaaS-based self-service platform. The move will accelerate the integration of persistent instant messaging services into the company’s product suite by up to 18 months.
Chris Bayne, chief executive for Access, says: “Sazneo goes beyond the social media tools currently available, taking interactive
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, closed out 2012 with 100 per cent annual revenue growth.
In addition, the company has doubled its client base in the last 12 months, propelled by demand for its scalable, cost-effective AbacusFLEX private cloud solution.
Today’s market environment continues to impose new cost pressures and regulatory demands on asset managers, forcing top-tier, new and emerging hedge funds and private equity funds to identify new methods to better allocate IT resources and lower operating costs while still adding measurable value.
As a result, more and
Intel Capital and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have made a follow-on investment of USD7.8m in Altobridge, a specialist in technology that cuts the cost of delivering mobile voice and data across wireless networks.
This new investment will provide Altobridge with additional capital to accelerate the pace of roll-out of its mobile data optimisation solution, Data-at-the-Edge, in both urban and rural markets globally.
Data-at-the-Edge (DatE) optimises data delivery for mobile network operators. It is a self-learning, content pre-positioning platform that enables network operators to drive down their data transmission costs while, at the same time, dramatically improving their end-users’ Quality of
IntraLinks has launched a cloud-based investor communication platform, IntraLinks Investor Portals, designed to allow hedge funds, private equity and real estate managers to better differentiate their brands, meet the transparency demands of institutional investors and compete effectively for assets.
Scalable, secure, and easy to use, the Investor Portals platform will be premiered at two alternative investment trade shows, SuperReturn International 2013 in Berlin on 26 February and at the iGlobal Real Estate Private Equity Summit on 6 March.
"As institutional investors continue to allocate to alternative investments, the rules of engagement – marketing, reporting and client service- are changing quickly,"
Options, the provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, is to open an office in Chicago next month.
Scheduled to open on 1 March, Options’ Chicago office will enable the firm to better serve the growing number of regional clients, as well as to communicate with proprietary trade firms in the area.
Options has had a presence in the Chicago area since 2007 when it began offering co-location services at the Cermak datacenter facility.
The Chicago office will expand Options’ presence in major global financial markets which include New
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