Strategy

December 11, 2022 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Danish natural resources specialist International Woodland Company (IWC). IWC is headquartered in Copenhagen and reportedly “has more than 30 years’ experience in providing investment management and advisory services within sustainable timberland investments, agriculture… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

More UK investors are planning to invest in venture capital offerings in 2023, according to research by Digital Horizon. It is important to note the survey polled LP types last month – iE home offices, asset managers, and other institutional money. Digital Horizon states that… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently global investment platform OurCrowd announced that it had topped $2 billion in capital commitments on its platform. OurCrowd is based in Israel but caters to a global market of both investors and private firms in need of growth capital. When the milestone was announced,… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 11:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Atish Davda, CEO and founder of EquityZen, a secondary market for private securities, says now is the time for people to invest in private firms. While public markets have tanked since the beginning of the year, experiencing exceptional volatility in recent months, and private markets… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As conditions continue to tighten, the public alternative asset managers “remain optimistic and feel their respective firms are in a good position to take advantage of opportunities that will present themselves over the next several quarters,” according to an update from Pitchbook. The Pitchbook report… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ROX Equity Partners, a UK based private equity company, has acquired SilverBridge. The financial services technology provider “has become the first subsidiary in the newly established Alula Technologies group providing solutions to the insurance and health industries.” As an organization who has demonstrated its ability… Read More

November 17, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdLustro, a Reg CF and alternative asset aggregation platform, has announced a new feature – a Testing the Waters option for issuers. Under current securities law, Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) securities offerings may “Test the Waters” prior to an official launch of a funding round…. Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA Lead Analyst, Fund Strategies & Sustainable Investing at Pitchbook, notes that through the first quarter of 2022, one-year private fund performance was still “at historically high levels, as more muted performance in Q1 2022 was still overcome by three quarters of… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The theme continues for investors fleeing digital assets, according to Coinshare’s weekly report on money flows. The report states that digital asset investment products experienced outflows of $ 15.6 million last week, and for the month of November, a “bad start” money exited digital assets… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

The SEC Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation has launched a new section of the Commission’s website outlining the “fundamentals of capital raising.” One of the main missions of the SEC is to facilitate capital formation for both smaller and larger firms. The… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 4:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

A recent report from Crowdfund Capital Advisors indicates that investment crowdfunding under Reg CF is experiencing a pullback in the month of October. Virtually all markets have been roiled by exceptionally high inflation, rising interest rates, and general risk-off sentient. CCA reports that October is… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:53 am By Andrew Howell  |  

From sea shells to stones, physical tokens have represented units of value for thousands of years. Recently, blockchain technology has given rise to the digital token economy, where items of value can be represented cryptographically. A growing marketplace has rapidly formed around this new technology… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto lending platforms, including BlockFi, Ledn, and Nexo, have recently raised their interest rates on deposits. Historically, crypto lending platforms have offered fairly steep returns. The question is, why? They’re citing a lack of options for borrowers, given both Celsius and Voyager going bankrupt, but… Read More

October 27, 2022 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Only a few weeks after finalizing the sale of its terminal business to Apollo Funds for €2.3 billion, Worldline [Euronext: WLN] has now moved to acquire a 55% stake in SoftPos.eu, a Warsaw-headquartered Fintech platform that reportedy converts Android devices into secure payment terminals. The… Read More

October 24, 2022 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinshares weekly report on digital asset investment activity once again depicts a market with little activity as investors look elsewhere to park their money. According to the report, digital asset investment products saw outflows totaling $5 million last week in a continuation of this “apathetic… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment in the regulatory compliance consultancy marks Copper Street Capital’s fifth investment, as the private equity investor “widens its portfolio across lower mid-market European financial services.” Thistle Initiatives Group will use Copper Street investment “to double in size over the next three years through organic… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth management service provider Addepar has highlighted an important evolution for Addepar’s Salesforce integration, announced updates to their analysis tool, shared the latest investor sentiment derived from U.S. equity captured on the Addepar platform, and also provided additional resources for navigating the current market conditions…. Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Compass, the Mediobanca Group’s consumer credit arm, has reportedly “completed two deals in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) segment.” The rationale for the deals is “to accelerate the bank’s growth in the deferred payment business using digital channels, which it has entered successfully with… Read More

September 29, 2022 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BTRS Holdings Inc. (Billtrust) (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments leader, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by EQT X fund (EQT Private Equity), part of EQT, a global investment organization, “in an all-cash transaction… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

As Ethereum pushes forward with the Merge, Bitcoin has been ignored a bit – at least until yesterday when BTC rocketed beyond the $20,000 level nearing $22K. So what’s going on? Was it just Bitcoin’s time to move higher after watching Ethereum from the sidelines?… Read More