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Tikehau banks over €1bn for energy transition fund

Over the last 18 months, Tikehau Capital’s T2 energy transition fund has invested €440m in European SMEs

Tikehau banks over €1bn for energy transition fund

Over the last 18 months, Tikehau Capital’s T2 energy transition fund has invested €440m in European SMEs

Central banks of China and United Arab Emirates join digital currency project for cross-border payments

Opalesque Industry Update - The Digital Currency Institute (DCI) of the People 's Bank of China (PBC) and the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) have joined a central bank digital currency project

It’s not just Wall Street: bankers gear up for Spac boom in Europe

Ex-UniCredit CEO Jean-Pierre Mustier has joined a growing list of European banking bigwigs to launch Spacs

Incapital and 280 CapMarkets creating a new fintech company

Opalesque Industry Update - Incapital, a leading underwriter and distributor of fixed income and market-linked securities, and 280 CapMarkets, a technology company providing best execution trading support and price transparency, announced today they are merging

3i banks on outsourced recruitment revival post-Covid with Wilson Human Capital investment

UK private equity investor 3i Group has agreed a $120m investment in recruitment specialist Wilson Human Capital Group as it banks on revitalised growth for the industry post-Covid-19.

IBM Continues Spree with Buy of Taos from Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill Capital has sold Taos Mountain, an IT managed services provider, to IBM. San Jose-based Taos provides multi-cloud cloud consulting and managed services to North America-based companies that are active in the technology, financial

Novacap Closes its Largest Fund

Novacap has closed Novacap TMT VI LP (Nova VI) with just over $1.8 billion of capital. The new fund is the largest ever raised by Novacap. Nova VI was significantly oversubscribed and beat its target

Moore Strategic Ventures, Rovida et al. in $120m round for Blockchain.com

Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange company Blockchain.com has raised $120m in funding from Moore Strategic Ventures, Kyle Bass, Access Industries, Rovida Advisors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Lakestar and Eldridge.

Apollo banks on continued Covid volatility with $2.34bn close of latest dislocated credit fund

Apollo Global Management has raised more than $2.3bn for the final close of its latest Accord fund targeting dislocated credit deals.

Mill Point Hits Fund II Hard Cap

Mill Point has held a final, oversubscribed, and hard cap close of Mill Point Capital Partners II LP with $886 million of total capital. The raising of Fund II was conducted entirely virtually and completed

Warburg Pincus invests in Israeli fintech firm Personetics

The company offers a proprietary AI software platform to leading banks around the world, reaching more than 95 million personal banking customers

Addleshaw Goddard hires Bourgeois as partner

Addleshaw Goddard has hired Nadine Bourgeois as a partner in its Germany-based banking and finance team.

European banks use pandemic to clean house

Long resistant to change, Germany’s Commerzbank and others are slashing jobs, closing branches and forcing customers online

Warburg Pincus continues fintech dealmaking push with $75m Personetics investment

Warburg Pincus has followed a string of venture capital firms into bank and financial services customer engagement software startup Personetics.

One of London’s top fintech investors gives his thoughts on 2021

One of London’s top fintech investors on the Black Swan events to come, Covid-19 and Brexit

PE-backed Calypso Technology goes up for sale

The San Francisco-based fintech, owned by Bridgepoint and Summit Partners, could fetch as much as $2bn

JP Morgan issues new synthetic Siemens EB

US banking group JP Morgan has sold a new three-year €390m synthetic bond exchangeable into shares in Siemens, the German industrial conglomerate.

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