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Lendable, an emerging market fintech credit provider, is targeting a ground-breaking USD100 million closed-ended fund focused on emerging and frontier market fintech investments.
Launched in Nairobi in 2015 by Daniel Goldfarb and Dylan Fried, Lendable’s goal is to get 100 million people access to crucial financial services. This will unlock consistent access to food, clean water, electricity, shelter, education and income.
Today, there are approximately 1.7 billion without access to financial markets.
The Lendable MSME Fintech Credit Fund (the Fund) is designed to unlock access to financial services for over 150,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), providing investors with
The development of molnupiravir, a “potent” oral anti-viral Covid-19 treatment, could help boost flagging consumer stocks reliant on the global economic reopening, as healthcare-focused hedge funds look to rebound following recent losses.
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation UMBF), has launched an automated optical character recognition (OCR) processing programme.
The technology enables faster, more accurate processing of handwritten subscription and tender documents by replacing manual reviews with OCR software and bot technology, turning what previously amounted to hundreds of hours of manual processing into a 24-hour automated service.
The programme creates a standard process for all client documents, whether received in paper, email, fax or data files, allowing UMBFS to handle high volume, short period spikes for tenders or product closings – a critical solution that has historically
Parameta Solutions, the flagship brand of TP ICAP’s Data & Analytics division, has launched a global post-trade analytics platform, Trading Analytics.
The new offering meets increasing demand for trading cost analysis and best execution in bonds enabling both sell and buy-side firms to monitor, measure, document, and improve achieved execution prices. The platform currently covers corporate, agency, government, and supranational bonds, with plans to expand into further asset classes in the future.
The new Trading Analytics platform enables trading desks, compliance officers and portfolio managers to upload their historic transaction data to a web portal, and then, using ThoughtSpot’s intuitive
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord (Philip) Hammond of Runnymede, has joined Copper.co, a London-based provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, as a Senior Adviser. He takes up this role with immediate effect.
Hammond will provide strategic advice to the Copper team as the company expands globally. Copper announced the launch of its US East Coast office in August 2021 with plans to launch in Asia already underway. Significant global growth follows the completion of an extended USD75 million funding round in June 2021, led by investor Alan Howard, and venture capital firms Dawn Capital and Target
Foreign exchange risk management and payments specialist Ballinger & Co (Ballinger) has appointed Ashley Wardle as a Partner in the firm’s sales team.
Prior to joining Ballinger, Wardle was Head of Desk at Monex Europe for over thirteen years with a portfolio that included Magic Circle law firms, asset managers, global charities, private banks, international brands, and multinational corporate clients.
Ballinger is a specialist, independent provider of innovative foreign exchange risk management and Treasury services to corporate and institutional clients with large and complex FX requirements.
Wardle’s appointment follows a period of significant growth for Ballinger. In the
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM), the investment banking services division of Russia’s largest independent broker, has appointed Julien Mareschal as a new Chief Risk Officer at BCS UK.
Based in London, Mareschal’s primary role is to further develop and lead a robust and comprehensive risk management framework for the firm’s operations. He will also oversee risk management across multiple business lines and across BCS GM’s entire suite of investment banking solutions. Mareschal will report to BCS GM co-CEO Maxim Safonov, and Marina Atavadzhieva, Global Head of Risk, BCS GM.
Mareschal has over 20 years’ experience in financial risk management.
Bosonic Digital (Bosonic), a real-time and custodian agnostic clearing and settlement platform for digital assets, has added three Senior Advisors to its advisory board and made seven additions to its staff, bringing its team to 35, a 500 per cent growth rate year-to-date.
The strategic hires across technology, product and business development, and sales are in place to support and scale up the growth trajectory for Bosonic due to increased demand for the critical infrastructure it provides to eliminate crypto counterparty credit and settlement risk.
“As we begin to engage in our largest capital raise to date, our
French systematic long/short equity hedge fund Quantology Capital Management’s flagship fund ended last month in positive territory, with the market neutral strategy withstanding the sharp stock market reversal during September.
KKR & Co (KKR) has appointed Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall as Co-Chief Executive Officers, while Co-Founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts will remain actively involved as Executive Co-Chairmen of KKR’s Board of Directors.
The leadership transition is effective immediately.
“Whether reflecting on the business, our mission or the team that undertakes it, we are proud of what we have built to support companies and serve our clients over the last four and a half decades. Joe and Scott—over the last 25 years—have played a significant role in that endeavour and in shaping the firm, its culture, and our market
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