CoInvestor Technologies, has been selected to be part of Tech Nation’s inaugural Fintech programme this autumn.

The technology company digitising the management of alternative assets for advisers, fund managers and private investors was chosen following a rigorous selection process to meet Tech Nation’s criteria.

Britain’s highest earners should consider reviewing their pension tax relief plans ahead of an expected raid by Chancellor Philip Hammond in November’s Budget, warns Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

Having funded the 47th project on the CrowdProperty platform, a total of £20,526,000 has now been raised for the development of 307 homes, demonstrating the potential that CrowdProperty has to materially contribute to the much needed housing supply across the UK as it continues its growth trajectory.

Finnish SaaS company Screenful has raised €305,000 in seed funding to help companies improve the efficiency and delivery of collaborative projects with their business intelligence dashboard. The funding round was led by Finnish venture capital company Gorilla Capital and the Arctic15 Funding Program consisting of a syndicated deal from 14 angel investors from FiBAN and the Nordic Angel Program.

Ahren has announced that over the Summer it completed the first close of its new fund, Ahren LP, with over $100 million committed from leading Limited Partners including blue-chip institutions Aviva and Wittington Investments and iconic West and East Coast US family offices.

Ahren’s investments focus on four domains that will create the future at the intersection of deep tech and deep science: the brain and artificial intelligence; genetics and platform technologies; space and robotics; the planet and efficient energy technology. Ahren is focused on building a new wave of billion-dollar companies that will change the world for the better. Its Founding Partners include an elite group of the most successful Cambridge University entrepreneurs and scientists whose inventions and technologies are today valued in excess of $100 billion combined.

Following its recent 'Silicon Fen' report looking at tech funding trends in Cambridge, Beauhurst has published its 'Silicon Spires' report into the tech funding scene in Oxford.

Investcorp Technology Partners, a leading European lower middle market technology investor, has acquired Berlin-based Softgarden, a fast-growing Human Resources (HR) software provider for an undisclosed sum. The investment is the fourth deal from Investcorp’s fourth Technology Fund.

Founded in 2005, Softgarden offers an innovative recruitment technology platform to a diversified set of German midmarket and enterprise customers. The company’s “Applicant Tracking System” (ATS), a SaaS platform covering the entire digital corporate recruitment process, enables companies to streamline and manage their entire recruitment process in a fully automated and data-privacy compliant manner. In addition to this, Softgarden offers a proprietary jobseeker market place with over 65,000 candidate profiles, as well as a tool allowing for the automated posting of job adverts on more than 300 job boards.

The total value of funds business in Guernsey is at a five-year high following a predicted rise in net asset value in Q2 2018, according to the latest figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

The figures for the end of June 2018 showed the net asset value stood at £276.2 billion, the highest since the end of June 2013, and a growth of more than £13 billion (4.94%) on Q1 2018 and a 12-month growth of more than £5 billion (1.9%).

UK Finance has published its Invoice Finance and Asset Based Lending Update for the second quarter of 2018.

BGF has provided £6m funding to One Media iP Group plc, a digital media content provider that primarily exploits music intellectual property rights. The AIM listed company, which is based in Pinewood Studios, will use the funding to support the acquisition of music catalogues as part of its buy and build growth strategy.

BGF’s funding follows the Board appointments earlier this year of Ivan Dunleavy, former CEO of Pinewood Studios and current non-executive chair of BGF-backed Milk Visual Effects, and Lord Michael Grade, formerly Chair of BBC, executive chair of ITV and CEO of Channel 4. The company employs a team of 15 including full-time creative technicians.

Flavia Richardson, Portfolio Manager at the London Co-investment Fund looks how the UK FinTech market compares to other European economies such as Germany and France – and also major economies such as the USA/ China and asks what we can learn from them.

International law firm Brown Rudnick LLP has announced the expansion of its International Corporate practice with the appointment of Philip Watkins as a Partner in the London Office. Philip joins Brown Rudnick with Victoria Rodley, Counsel, from Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP.