Bloomberg has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canoe Intelligence, an AI-powered data management and intelligence platform for automating private markets data collection and delivery.
Bravura Solutions has expanded its partnership with Royal London, the UK’s largest mutual life and pensions provider, with the launch of a new ISA product in September.
Franklin Resources, Inc, a global investment management organisation operating as Franklin Templeton, has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Apera Asset Management (“Apera”), a pan-European private credit firm with over EUR5 billion in assets under management (“AUM”).
MSCI Inc and Intapp Inc have entered into a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic collaboration designed to streamline how private market professionals can discover, analyse and act on opportunities.
ACA Group (ACA) has acquired Global Trading Analytics (GTA), an independent provider of transaction cost analysis (TCA) services.
Axyon AI has secured a further EUR4.3 million funding round led by CDP Venture Capital. US-based venture capital firms Green Sands Equity and Montage Ventures, the Italian holding firm Investment Opportunity 1 and SIMEST on behalf of the Fund F.394 managed in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), are co-investors.
The BNP Paribas Group has announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with AXA to acquire 100 per cent of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), representing close to EUR850 billion in assets under management, together with an agreement for a long-term partnership to manage a large part of AXA’s assets.
7IM has announced that Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’) has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in the firm.
Aubrey Capital Management and LarrainVial, one of the largest financial services groups in Chile, have announced that LVCC (the holding company which controls LarrainVial Asset Management), has reached an agreement on the latter acquiring a 25 per cent stake in Aubrey with the deal concluding in the coming days, subject to final reviews by lawyers in the UK and Chile.
