One piece of M&A activity which has been missed by many is Financial Express's acquisition of the eValue team from Towers Watson.
The acquisition that was announced just prior to Christmas was completed this week. AT8 went to meet with Financial Express' managing director Michael Holland in order to find out about the strategic intent behind the acquisition. Financial Express has been a major player in the investment market for many years now. Founded in 1996 it claims to be the largest distributor of fund data in the UK and it is the main or sole supplier of data to many of the leading data vendors and technology firms. It also provides data and web-based fund analysis software to the UK's leading fund supe...
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