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Rising Sun Management (RSM) has offered to buy 100 per cent of Japanese marketing research firm Intage Holdings for JPY1900 per share through its Japanese vehicle Hikari Acquisition KK.
The offer values Intage at approximately JPY76.7 billion.
Paul ffolkes Davis, Chairman of RSM, made the offer in a letter delivered to Noriaki Ishizuka, President and Representative Director, Intage Holdings.
“We expect you to now convene an ‘independent committee’ as described by Japanese M&A guidance rules to evaluate our offer,” ffolkes Davis said in the letter. The offer is subject to financing and approval by the Board of Intage Holdings.
big xyt, an independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community, has launched the Global Exchanges Directory, an interactive web portal providing key information on 97 worldwide stock exchanges and alternative trading venues in seven regional categories.
Designed to address the problem of ever increasing complexity for market professionals who regularly use the global markets, the Global Exchanges Directory helps traders and others working in the financial markets to better understand the local market structure. They can easily navigate the mosaic of different time zones, trading calendars and market timings that they need
BTIG has appointed Alex Alden as a Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions and Financial Technology within its Investment Banking division.
Alden will oversee the firm’s efforts to deliver a complete set of advisory and capital solutions to BTIG’s financial services and financial technology clients globally. In his new role with the firm, he will be based in BTIG’s San Francisco office and report to Matt Clark, Global Head of Investment Banking.
Alden brings more than 25 years of industry experience to BTIG. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions and Head of Financial
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has launched a new qualification, the Certificate in Climate and Investing (CCI).
Trium, a family office-backed alternative investment manager, has appointed Bogdan Popescu as director of its European business.
Avelacom, a low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider for global financial markets, has deployed its point-of-presence (PoP) at Bursa Malaysia to extend its network footprint into the country’s capital markets.
Primex Finance, a decentralised prime brokerage liquidity protocol for DEX-agnostic cross-margin trading, has secured USD5.7 million in a seed round led by blockchain-focused investment firm CoinFund and Stratos Technologies, a multi-strategy venture capital firm.
Jump Trading has joined Tradeweb Markets’ European Government Bond marketplace to provide participants with streaming liquidity via the new Tradeweb EUGV STAQ API.
While several multistrategy hedge funds posted gains amidst January’s equity market volatility, Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management lost money over the month, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Citadel’s flagship hedge fund and its fixed-income fund both posted gains almost 5 per cent in January, despite a slump in equity markets, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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