Canadian institutional investors are seeking to further increase their overall allocations to alternative investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, infrastructure, private debt and hedge funds, according to a new study published by CIBC Mellon. The report, “Race for Assets:
Perfect Channel, a specialist in marketplace transformation technology, has secured GBP2 million in funding from its long-term investor Beringea, and new partner UIL Limited, an investment company jointly managed by ICM Limited and ICM Investment Management Limited. Perfect Channel –
The Japan Exchange Group (JPX) has taken a minority stake in OpenGamma, a provider of derivatives risk analytics. The JPX investment follows an earlier USD13.3 million round of institutional investment in October 2016, which included Accel Partners, NEX (formerly known
Crux Informatics has closed a USD10 million Series A financing, led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) and other institutional investors. Crux helps companies reduce the effort and money spent acquiring, exploring and processing large amounts of data. The company
Prophecy Asset Management, a New York-based allocator and seed capital source for equity long/short hedge fund managers, has allocated USD30 million to a portfolio created by Birch Island Capital, a private investment firm in Cambridge, MA founded by a team
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has acquired a 4.7 per cent stake in Euroclear, a provider of post-trade services, including settlement, central securities depositories and related services for cross-border transactions across asset classes, for EUR 275 million. ICE anticipates having one representative
Hedge fund incubator and accelerator Emergence, and NewAlpha Asset Management, the SICAV’s delegated manager, have selected VIA AM as the first investment for Emergence’s new European equities fund. Launched in June 2017 with a target of EUR300 million, the fund
S&P Global has formed a strategic partnership with, and taken a minority stake in Algomi, a fintechcompany with offices in New York, Hong Kong and London. Algomi is the second minority fintech investment this year for S&P Global, following its
TransFICC, a provider of low-latency connectivity for fixed income and derivative markets, has secured EUR1 million in early stage investment from capital markets specialists, Illuminate Financial and Frankfurt based early stage investor in FinTech, Main Incubator. TransFICC provides banks and
DC Thomson is partnering with Electronic Research Interchange (ERIC) to develop its bespoke investment research offering for the post-MiFID II world. This transaction will see DC Thomson acquire a material stake in ERIC. 

 The partnership will enable ERIC to
