Acuris, a BC Partners and GIC-backed provider of global data, intelligence, research and analysis, has acquired Blackpeak, an investigative research firm. Co-founded by Jack Clode and Chris Leahy in 2011, Blackpeak has grown to become a premier provider of complex
Janney Montgomery Scott, a full-service wealth management, capital markets, and asset management firm, is to acquire FIG Partners, an Atlanta-based investment banking and research firm. The experienced team at FIG Partners brings nationally recognised expertise within the community bank sector
Medalist Partners, an alternative asset management firm specialising in structured credit and asset-backed lending, has acquired a majority stake in JMP Credit Advisors (JMP Credit Advisors), a US-based investment manager with expertise in managing collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), from a subsidiary
Broadridge Financial Solutions has closed its acquisition of Bonaire Software Solutions, a provider of fee calculation, billing and revenue and expense management solutions for asset managers including institutional asset managers, wealth managers, mutual funds, bank trusts, hedge funds and capital
Thinknum, a leading provider of web-sourced alternative data, has secured USD11.6 million in Series A funding round. Participants included Green Visor Capital, one of the original investors in the firm’s USD1 million seed round in 2014. Thinknum will use the
Morgan Creek Digital is to be the lead anchor investor in Ikigai Asset Management’s flagship fund focused on executing systematic and fundamental liquid hedge fund strategies as well as opportunistic venture-stage crypto asset investments. Ikigai is a crypto asset management
Peer-to-peer mortgage trading platform LendInvest has completed its first block trade of loans. The block of five bridging loans were purchased by a hedge fund that is looking to gain exposure to the UK mortgage market. LendInvest, which was
Capital Financial Global, Inc (OTC: CFGX), is in talks with a hedge fund to acquire a 40% interest in its management entity. "We are hopeful this will allow us to increase our funding capacity and simultaneously add some consistent fee
Following the sudden death of Andrew Dalton in April 2011, agreement has been reached, in principle, for the purchase of equity of Dalton Strategic Partners (DSP) from the Dalton family, by the executive partners of the firm. As a result
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and the management of The TCW Group, an asset management firm, are to acquire TCW from Société Générale. As a result of the transaction, TCW management and employees will increase their ownership in
