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EQT explores strategic options for Banking Circle

Banking Circle’s private equity backer EQT is mulling options for the payments infrastructure company, according to five sources familiar with the situation.

Eleven Add-Ons Later, Align Exits Alliance

Align Capital Partners has sold its environmental testing and compliance platform, Alliance Technical Group, to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Alliance provides source testing, emissions monitoring and analytical services to industrial facilities for permitting and compliance

IBISWorld & RelPro Announce Partnership & Solution Integration

Together, RelPro and IBISWorld expand Business Development Solutions for Commercial Banks(PRWeb July 22, 2021)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/ibisworld_relpro_announce_partnership_solution_integration/prweb18087088.htm

GCP Capital Partners Invests in XL Marketing

XL Marketing, a digital and direct marketing company, today announced an investment by private equity firm GCP Capital Partners as well as a debt facility agented by Madison Capital Funding. The $70 million capital raise

Milestone Partners Acquires Southern Management Corp.

Milestone Partners has completed the acquisition of Southern Management Corporation, a consumer finance company. “Southern is a tremendous and well respected platform within the highly fragmented consumer installment loan industry providing essential access to loans

FPE invests in employee benefits software Zest

FPE Capital has acquired UK-based employee benefits software Zest from fintech support service Fintel.

Rothschild Hires Financial Sponsors Veteran

Rothschild & Co has added Timothy Lufkin to its investment banking team as a managing director in its financial sponsors group. Mr. Lufkin joins the firm after serving as a managing director in the financial

Revolut raises USD 800m Series E at USD 33bn valuation

Revolut, a UK-based payments and banking platform, has raised USD 800m in its Series E funding round at a valuation of USD 33bn.

AMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: The point of CBDC

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Major central banks across the world are racing to deliver a reliable version of digital money. China is testing a digital renminbi version; Europe plans to launch a digital Euro within

Blackstone enters deal to manage AIG life and retirement assets

The private equity firm will pay $2.2bn for a 9.9% stake of AIG’s life insurance and retirement services unit

Venture Capital’s “Me Too” Moment

Posted by Sophie Calder-Wang (The Wharton School), Paul A. Gompers (Harvard Business School), and Patrick Sweeney (Harvard Business School), on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Editor's Note: Sophie Calder-Wang is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at

Twice as many women as men suffer ‘extreme’ stress in pandemic in the City

Heart rates were analysed of senior execs at asset managers, investment banks, insurance companies and private equity firms.

London fintech investment makes record-breaking start to 2021

Firms attract $5.3bn in investment so far compared with the previous record in 2018 of $4.8bn across the whole year

Yahsat demand stratospheric as it closes IPO books

Banks wrapped up the $730m-equivalent IPO of Abu Dhabi satellite company Yahsat on Thursday with high levels of demand, particularly from local investors.

Chinese bonds rally after govt signals RRR cut

Bonds issued by the Chinese government and policy lenders saw a strong rally on Thursday after the State Council signalled a cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR), a move that could unleash hundreds of

Indian SOEs fire up dollar loans as capex comes back into focus

Indian state-owned companies have returned in force to the loan market, raising funds for their planned capital expenditure as Covid-19 cases slow in the country. But the aggressive pricing offered by local banks means foreign

Citi snags senior insurance banker from Barclays

Mike Lamb, a senior investment banker covering the insurance sector, has left Barclays to join Citi in a chairman role in London.

Direct listings offer IPO alternative following Wise success

Shares in Wise, the UK fintech group, had traded up more than 18% by Thursday compared to the price at which it completed the first ever direct listing by a technology unicorn on the London

Pros from Pittsburgh Launch Continuim

A new private equity firm, Continuim Equity Partners, has been founded in Pittsburgh to invest in family and founder-owned manufacturers and industrial businesses. Continuim’s investment team is led by Managing Partner George Pilafas who has

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