Month : September 2023

SimpleClosure Announces $1.5 Million Pre-Seed Round
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SimpleClosure Announces $1.5 Million Pre-Seed Round

Business Wire
First automated business closure platform helps founders shut down their company and move on to next project SimpleClosure, the easiest and most trustworthy way to shut down your startup, announced it has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Co-led by Michael Vaughan and Jon Pomeranz of Vera Equity and Rex Salisbury......
Firstcard Announces $4.7 Million in Seed Funding To Build Better Banking for College Students
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Firstcard Announces $4.7 Million in Seed Funding To Build Better Banking for College Students

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Firstcard, a fintech startup building better banking for college students, announced that it has raised $4.7 million in Seed funding from VCs and Angels such as AngelList Early Stage Quant Fund. This comes a year after the company’s $3 million Pre-Seed fundraise, bringing the total funding to date to $7.7......
Opto Investments Expands Offerings to Include Custom Funds Capabilities, Pioneering Personalized Private Markets Solutions for Advisors
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Opto Investments Expands Offerings to Include Custom Funds Capabilities, Pioneering Personalized Private Markets Solutions for Advisors

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Leading private markets platform introduces a collaborative model for custom multi-manager private market funds, elevating advisor offerings Opto Investments (“Opto”), the technology-driven solution that empowers forward-looking investment advisors to confidently access private markets, announced the launch of new custom funds capabilities, further enriching its offering to RIAs. This enhancement enables......
U.S Bank Names Shruti Patel Chief Product Officer For The Business Banking Segment
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U.S Bank Names Shruti Patel Chief Product Officer For The Business Banking Segment

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Patel joins U.S. Bank from Shopify to drive forward the bank’s strategy to deliver an integrated banking, payments and software offering for small business clients Shruti Patel has joined U.S. Bank as chief product officer for the business banking segment. In this key leadership role within the Consumer and Business......
Boosted.ai Announces Boosted Insights 3.0 - Generative AI Combined With Finance-Specific Algorithms to Supercharge Investment Manager’s Productivity
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Boosted.ai Announces Boosted Insights 3.0 – Generative AI Combined With Finance-Specific Algorithms to Supercharge Investment Manager’s Productivity

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Boosted.ai launches its most all-encompassing update yet – combining generative AI with its finance-specific algorithms – to save investment managers time, reduce their risk and help make data-driven decisions Boosted.ai, makers of the Boosted Insights platform for investment managers, announced the release of Boosted Insights 3.0, the most powerful update......
D.A. Davidson Acts as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Vizlib in Its Sale to insightsoftware
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D.A. Davidson Acts as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Vizlib in Its Sale to insightsoftware

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D.A. Davidson & Co. announced that it has served as exclusive financial advisor to Vizlib, a UK-based software company that builds powerful visual analytics products for Qlik Sense users, in its sale to insightsoftware. Browse more about Interview Insights: Global Fintech Interview with Scott Macfee, CEO of SpendHQ “The Vizlib......
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Global Fintech Fest 2023 – Outcomes

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3 days, 125+ Countries, 800+ Stalwarts, 15+ Thought Leadership Reports, 81 Papers, 50+ Workshops, 250+ Sessions, 250+ Investors, 500+ exhibitors, 50000+ Delegates and the list goes on… What more can we expect from GFF23? GFF23- Agenda GFF 2023 was held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai from September......
Marsh McLennan Announces Pricing of $1.6 Billion Senior Notes Offering
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Marsh McLennan Announces Pricing of $1.6 Billion Senior Notes Offering

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Marsh McLennan announced that it has priced $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.400% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes”) and $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.700% Senior Notes due 2053 (the “2053 Notes” and, together with the 2033 Notes, the “Notes”). The Company intends to use the......
Evercore Adds Giuseppe Monarchi and Laurence Hainault as Senior Managing Directors in its Communications and Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking Business
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Evercore Adds Giuseppe Monarchi and Laurence Hainault as Senior Managing Directors in its Communications and Digital Infrastructure Investment Banking Business

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Evercore announced that Giuseppe Monarchi and Laurence Hainault have joined the firm as senior managing directors to lead its Communications and Digital Infrastructure investment banking business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. They are being joined at Evercore by Managing Director Francesco Gurrieri and a team of highly experienced......
BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation Announces Credit Agreement Amendment
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BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation Announces Credit Agreement Amendment

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BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation announced that it has entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to its $265 million senior secured revolving credit agreement (as amended, including by the Amendment, the “Revolving Credit Facility”). The Amendment, among other things: Browse more about Interview Insights: Global Fintech Interview with Scott Macfee, CEO......
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