All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

Monroe Capital wraps up acquisition of Horizon Technology Finance Management

Horizon Technology Finance Management serves as an investment manager of venture debt products for high-growth businesses in the technology, healthcare information and services, life sciences, and sustainability industries

HSBC opens global private banking business in India 

The British financial services company’s new business unit will target customers having investable assets exceeding $2m

ADQ and BMO to join Great-West Lifeco as strategic partners of Sagard 

ADQ and BMO have respectively entered into definitive agreements to acquire minority equity stakes in Sagard, and GWL has agreed to increase its existing minority stake

Tencent Cloud, Allo Bank partner to boost digital banking in Indonesia

Allo Bank expects to process up to 100,000 daily transactions with TDSQL’s high-performance computing and storage resources

Tembusu Partners and Reuss Private launch Tembusu Wealth Management 

The new multi-family office will be led by private wealth managing partner Jonathan Ng, former market leader at Pictet Private Wealth’s Southeast Asia wealth management division

Fujitsu, Informa D&B partner on explainable AI for business and financial sector

Under the agreement, Fujitsu will leverage explainable AI technology for processing and analysing large volumes of data

Volkswagen invests €1bn for growth in South America 

Before the end of 2023, the company is bringing its first fully electric models to Brazil – the Volkswagen ID.4. and the ID. Buzz

UK-based property finance platform LendInvest secures £500m investment

According to the mortgage platform, the new funding will advance the growth of its buy-to-let business as well as its newly launched residential mortgage range

ABN AMRO goes live with CBA’s upgraded solution for trade finance processes 

The Dutch lender’s go live comes after the signing of a five-year agreement with CBA

Sidetrade buys credit risk management solutions firm CreditPoint Software

The transaction is expected to catalyse disruptive real time B2B credit risk management solutions