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Singapore’s EDBI Makes Strategic Investment in Vesta as Company Makes a Concerted Push Into the Asia Pacific Region

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Investment and partnership will accelerate Vesta’s expansion of fraud and approval enhancement platform across the Asia Pacific region Vesta, a fintech pioneer in fraud protection and fully guaranteed payment technologies, has secured a strategic investment from EDBI, a global Asian-based investor. This investment, along with a strategic alignment with EDBI,......
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Spouting Rock Acquires Minority Ownership in Copper Rock Capital Partners, LLC

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Spouting Rock Asset Management, LLC, a multi-boutique manager platform providing investment solutions and services, today announced a joint backing with Copper Rock management of Copper Rock Capital Partners, LLC, a specialized growth equity investment manager of small- and mid-cap international, global and emerging markets equity strategies, in a buyout from......
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Citi Extends Fund Accounting Services to UK Investment Trusts

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Citi announced that it enhanced its UK fund servicing capabilities to include valuation, accounting, tax computation and filing, and reporting for investment trusts. There are approximately 350 investment trusts in the UK with £186 billion in assets under management1. “Investment trusts are an important vehicle for UK asset managers,” said......
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Africa’s fintech sector bucks global downturn with landmark sale of digital payments provider Beyonic to MFS Africa

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Africa’s fintech sector is key to the region’s economic growth as technology enables remittance inflows of money from its diaspora to boost disposable income and balance of payments. So says ICON Corporate Finance, the tech-focused investment bank, which recently advised on one of the sector’s most significant transactions in recent......
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Great Hill Partners Adds Experienced Payment Leader as Executive-in-Residence

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Ian Drysdale Will Focus on Financial Technology, Payments, and Software Investments  Great Hill Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm, today announced that Ian Drysdale has joined as an Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) to focus on identifying and pursuing investment opportunities in the financial technology, payments, and software sectors. Drysdale brings more than......
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12 Peers Invests in ShareRing (SHR), Marking the Firm’s First Investment Into the Digital Asset Space

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The ShareRing management team has successfully executed gig-economy applications for mobility rentals and travel. Their latest venture, the ShareRing app is focused on the fragmented $7 Trillion travel economy and integrates travel documents and itineraries into an all-in-one travel platform. 12 Peers Capital, the Cayman Islands based broker-dealer and capital......
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True Link raises $35 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Centana Growth Partners

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Specialized fintech startup ramps up growth of its services for older adults, people with disabilities, and people recovering from addiction True Link Financial, a mission-driven financial technology company, announced today that it has raised a total of $35 million in two Series B tranches, the first led by Khosla Ventures and......
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Unanet A/E Releases New Features to Help Architecture & Engineering Firms Drive Sales Efficiency, Accounting

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Unanet A/E powered by Clearview, the flexible project-based ERP software purpose-built for the architecture and engineering (A/E) industries, released several new features that help A/E firms improve HR, Accounting, and Sales processes. Today’s release further demonstrates Unanet’s commitment to investing and enhancing Unanet A/E so customers can drive efficiency in......
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Former JPMorgan Chase Executive Shannon Hobbs Named To Top Human Resources Post At American Century Investments

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American Century Investments has named Shannon Hobbs as its chief human resources (HR) officer, filling the role currently held by Mark Gilstrap, who plans to retire at the end of 2020. Hobbs, who previously served in a series of senior human resources positions at JPMorgan Chase and other firms, assumes her new American......
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UK Fintech Wiserfunding Enters India

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Z-Score founder launches new credit assessment to improve small business lending in Indian economy UK based fintech Wiserfunding announced its entry into India, launching its Artificial Intelligence (AI) backed cloud-based credit risk assessment tool targeted for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Wiserfunding arrives at a time when SMEs across India......
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