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Glenhawk | March 18, 2020

The deal will support the bridging lender’s expansion into the growing homeowner mortgage market Glenhawk, the fast-growing UK challenger lender, has agreed a new senior funding line with J.P. Morgan, which will support the firm’s ambitions to grow its UK loan book to £200 million by the end of 2021 – under the leadership of CEO Guy Harrington. The facility represents the first time that J.P. Morgan has invested in a private securitisation backed by UK bridging loans. The...

SoftBank | February 24, 2020

SoftBank on Monday led a new funding round of $165 million in California-based Karius and invested $100 million in New York-headquartered AI company Behavox, as the technology giant builds a portfolio under its second Vision Fund. The two deals come at a time of intense investor scrutiny into SoftBank’s investments. The Japanese company earlier this month reported a second straight quarter of losses at its first Vision Fund, pushing Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son to scale back his s...

Business Wire | September 02, 2020

DealMaker, DealSquare, and NEO today announced the launch of a new partnership to provide a comprehensive private placement solution for issuers, dealers, advisors, and investors - a solution that is both fully digital and global in reach. DealMaker is a cloud-based platform for executing private placements, fund formation, and KYC. DealSquare, powered by NEO technology, is an online private placement marketplace for dealers, investment advisors, and capital raisers. This joint service offering ...

JP Morgan | May 14, 2020

JP Morgan is reportedly serving bitcoin exchanges – Coinbase and Gemini – as banking clients, according to Wall Street Journal sources. It’s the first time the US banking giant has taken on crypto clients. The exchanges were approved in April as customers under the bank’s corporate and investment division, and are now starting to process transactions through the bank, per the report. Traditionally fenced out by banks as clients too risky to take on – B...