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Hedge and private equity fund manager FSI Group has joined the AlphaMetrix TransparentFund platform. FSI Group will retain its existing service providers and enhance its already robust infrastructure by offering investors risk monitoring, reporting, customised transparency and a thorough background investigation via AlphaMetrix.
“FSI Group is an excellent addition to AlphaMetrix,” says Mikus Kins, chief product and business development officer at AlphaMetrix. “As a result of listing with AlphaMetrix, FSI will be able to provide investors with greater transparency that is independently verified and reconciled.”
Navatar Group, a cloud provider for financial services, has released a new version of Navatar M&A Cloud, a cloud CRM solution used by M&A advisory firms, investment banks and business brokers worldwide.
All Navatar customers will receive an upgrade for the new release free of charge.
This release adds to the already robust functionality provided out-of-the-box by Navatar M&A CRM, completely through the cloud, and used by firms to discover potential clients, find the right buyers as well as manage the entire due diligence process.
Navatar M&A CRM is also fully integrated with Navatar Deal Connect, the global online marketplace
The share price of companies undertaking recent IPOs on London’s Main Market in the past two years have outperformed the FTSE100 overall, according to research from Deloitte, the business advisory firm.
Deloitte’s IPO Barometer shows the share price of 10 Main Market trading company IPOs that occurred in 2011 and 2012 rose on average by 19.2 per cent above their listing price by the end of January 2013. The FTSE100 rose by 8.8 per cent over the same period.
A GBP1,000 investment in each of the 10 IPOs at the time of their listing would have been worth GBP11,920.
Early-stage investor Sunil Dhaliwal has launched Amplify Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm exclusively focused on Infrastructure 2.0 technology.
"Incumbent infrastructure vendors are vulnerable in a way the technology industry hasn’t seen in over 25 years," says Dhaliwal (pictured). "Those vendors share over a trillion dollars of market value that is ripe for disruption by startups leveraging the technical, cultural, and go-to-market shifts that define Infrastructure 2.0. We intend to be the investor of choice for entrepreneurs who share that vision."
With financial backing from IT infrastructure executives, financial industry veterans and forward-thinking institutional investors, Amplify Partners has the flexibility
NewVoiceMedia, a provider of Cloud contact centre services, has secured USD20m funding from new investors Highland Capital Partners Europe and MMC Ventures, as well as existing shareholders Notion Capital and Eden Ventures.
NewVoiceMedia’s cloud service is instantly deployable and provides patented routing capabilities designed to enhance the customer experience. The company is growing by more than 200 per cent a year and now serves more than 8,000 agents in 30 countries including Parcelforce, PhotoBox, QlikTech and SHL.
The additional investment will help accelerate the company’s global ambitions including opening new offices in North America, where the solution is already widely
SS&C Technologies has released TNR Solution version 2013, an update to SS&C GlobeOp’s private equity technology platform.
TNR Solution version 2013 features enhancements to its core fund accounting and portfolio management functionality, including on-screen reporting views to track investments across various fund structures.
This new version also includes multiple enhancements to its web portal, incorporating fundraising and portfolio analytic capabilities.
From a usability standpoint, TNR version 2013 introduces a user-defined field tool, enabling end users to control screen creation and generate flexible reports.
The latest version of TNR Solution is available via SS&C GlobeOp’s cloud computing infrastructure, as a Software-as-a-Service
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, has launched Eze App Cloud, a private cloud application delivery platform developed exclusively for application providers.
Built on the company’s Eze Private Cloud, the hedge fund industry’s most broadly deployed and used private cloud, Eze App Cloud enables application providers to combine their software with a cloud infrastructure to give clients a complete, cost-effective package that speeds time to value.
There are already more than 60 applications delivered via the Eze Private Cloud, which features 24/7 system and security monitoring and professional management; N+1 infrastructure
Advise Technologies, a software solutions provider for global regulatory compliance, saw rapid growth during 2012.
Advise secured significant new client gains across the US fuelled by demand for its solutions, including its Consensus RMS suite of regulatory reporting tools.
A majority of first-round Form PF filers in the industry successfully filed using Advise’s Consensus RMS suite in July/August, and again in October/November.
In response to this demand and to help private funds prepare for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), Advise plans to open an office in Europe in 2013. The company continues to add global sales and
ClickSlide has closed its seed investment round led by Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs (ACE) Fund and three angel investors.
The investment will be used to fund product development.
ClickSlide Abacus is a cloud-based platform that allows software to be connected to a programmable interface for the testing of APIs against live mobile applications. Such technology can create a substantial reduction in application build time.
ClickSlide Abacus can produce a live application connected to any REST, SOAP and XML -RPC APIs. Live testing of APIs against mobile applications can be used to test API viability at hack-a-thons. ClickSlide Abacus is used
The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) looks primed for a strong start to 2013 following a robust year in 2012, according to analysis by Deloitte, the business advisory firm.
To the end of November in 2012, there had been 65 admissions to AIM, London’s junior stock exchange.
Richard Thornhill, capital markets partner at Deloitte, says: “Although the number of admissions lags behind the comparative periods in 2010 and 2011, which saw 88 and 86, respectively, it demonstrates that there is still a consistent baseline of activity on AIM. If you look behind the numbers there are good reasons to be
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