Funding Circle, the UK's leading SME finance platform, secured a £230 million credit facility from Citi, that the firm will deploy to support its continued strong growth in flexible SME finance solutions. Funding Circle will use the credit facility to...
Ares Management has launched its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF), opening up access to its €73bn direct lending strategy to individual investors across the European Economic Area. The Ares European Strategic Income ELTIF Fund (AESIF ELTIF) is a semi-liquid,...
The FTGF Putnam US Research fund is available to retail investors in Singapore and Hong Kong. Franklin Templeton today announced the introduction of Putnam Investments’ strategies in Asia, beginning with the launch of the FTGF Putnam US Research fund in...
Private equity firms are holding an estimated $1tn in unrealised assets amid delayed exits and macroeconomic headwinds, according to PwC’s 2025 midyear deal outlook. While limited partners are becoming increasingly restless, industry leaders remain cautiously optimistic about a rebound in...
Tensec, a startup founded by ex-Rapyd, Meta, and Goldman Sachs executives, has raised $12 million in seed funding to take on the $190 trillion B2B cross-border payments market. Tensec wants to provide global trading companies and their clients access to...
The bank expects to have reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 64%. Mizuho Financial Group has cumulatively extended $278b (JPY40.3t) in sustainable finance loans between FY2019 and FY2024, according to its climate & nature report released in June...
Investec has structured a US$10mn uncommitted supply chain finance (SCF) facility for Singapore-headquartered agricultural commodity trader Valency International, marking the first time the bank’s international trade finance team has acted as sole lender on a supply chain deal. The financing...
Valency International operates large-scale commodity processing facilities across four countries in Africa and Asia. Swiss impact investor Blue Earth Capital has provided a $30m private credit loan to Valency International, a global trader, processor and exporter of agricultural commodities which...
Foreign direct investment flows into developing economies dropped to $435 billion in 2023, the lowest level since 2005, as rising trade barriers, geopolitical tensions and growing fragmentation curbed cross-border investment. In its Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank said...
Both parties hope the partnership will accelerate regenerative agriculture and carbon credit generation across Europe. InSoil, a Lithuanian climate finance company, has struck a €100m agreement with Key Carbon, a voluntary carbon market financier, which will enable conventional farmers to...
