The FCA has had a busy Christmas as the Financial Industry focused on launching many changes including MIFID II and PRIIPS for the Fund Industry.
Many firms took this change as a reason to close their UK FCA Regulated Firm and move to the EU now ahead of BREXIT or considering closing their own directly authorised firm and become an Appointed Representative of another Authorised FCA Firm.
Sturgeon Ventures is delighted to read of RoboCap’s success in CityWire’s recent article on “Five alternatives to the Pictet-Robotics fund”.
Jonathan Cohen, Managing Partner of Robocap LLP [Sturgeon Ventures Designated Portfolio Manager] was, approved by the FCA within Sturgeon Ventures, on 22nd December 2015.
Project Harar was set up to help those people, predominantly children, living in rural Ethopia affected by facial deformities, be it a cleft lip, palate, animal attack or tumour, and are unable to access medical support.
Conflicts of interest is an aspect that is – although necessary for investment firms’ compliance processes – often considered after the event. It is hard to remember in the heat of the action and because it is not always easy to define, it is not the first thing that a commercial team will think about.
Venture Catalysts are not just money invested, but people and time. When Sturgeon Ventures was first born in 1998, it branded itself as a Venture Catalyst, it incubated people and companies across a number of industries; in 2000 the focus began towards financial services and the regulatory incubator was born in early 2000.
Sturgeon Ventures are delighted to announce that they have won 4 times in the ACQ Global Awards, across multiple areas.
1 Europe – Regulatory Hosting Platform of the Year
2 UK – Game Changer of the Year, Seonaid Mackenzie
3 UK – Family Office Wealth Advisor of the Year
4 International – Business Strategy Consultancy of the Year
Sturgeon Ventures are delighted to announce they have won twice at the M&A Awards 2017.
The awards are:
1 UK Compliance Consultancy – Advice on Start-up Issues
2 UK Advisor of the Year – Seonaid Mackenzie
…”Now in it’s fifth year, the Finance Monthly M&A Awards celebrate firms and individuals across the globe who have promoted excellence in their field….”
Sturgeon Ventures wins twice at 2017’s Acquisition International Magazine’s annual awards.
Sturgeon Ventures became an EU VECA manager on 22nd December 2016, and has since launched several funds.
Venture capital investment provides early finance to start-ups and early stage companies, forming an important source of long-term financing to young and innovative companies who believe in their new creations.
The European Securities and Markets Authority foresees regulatory and arbitrage risks in Brexit and has issued an opinion as a practical tool to help achieve supervisory convergence among EU regulators—Brexit negotiations begin on June 19, and Brexit is scheduled to occur on or before March 30, 2019 unless an extension is agreed.
The new EU Directive 2019/1160 and Regulation 2019/1156 (the “Directive” and the “Regulation”) (together the “CBDF”) on the cross-border distribution of collective investment funds took effect on 2 August 2021. In an earlier update, we specifically examined the changes these made for UCITS and AIFs at the pre-marketing stage. In this update, we address the impact of the CBDF on the requirement to maintain local facilities across Member States.
A little education for Lead Generators who are currently advertising their Lead Services on Google; it may lead to other online advertisers to take a similar stance. Google in July has made it mandatory that Firms that Advertise Financial Services must be either directly FCA Approved or be an Appointed Representative Firm of a Principal […]
Sturgeon Ventures now has a Tied Agent MiFID-Passporting Solution in Germany, to add to its other EEA Solutions, as part of its regulatory-ecosystem.
Sturgeon Ventures LLP created and pioneered the wholesale Appointed Representative Firm in the early 2000s with the innovation of the market leading and award-winning, institutional Regulatory Incubation for starts ups and for overseas companies coming to the UK who wanted to set up a 1–2-person office, for example, to Arrange or Advise (depending on the […]
Crosslight is Sturgeon Ventures’ chosen charity and we are pleased to share their Impact Report for 2020/21.
Last week Nikhil Rathi, the FCA’s CEO, made a speech at the launch of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter Annual Review on why diversity and inclusion are regulatory issues.
The consequences of the UK leaving the EU need to be considered, in particular the impact on full-scope UK AIFMs that became non-EEA AIFMs on Brexit.
Sturgeon Ventures are pleased to announce that they have won Compliance Consultancy Firm of the Year – UK for the recent Corporate INTL awards.
