Saturday, October 28, 2017

Mkango Resources announced £500,000 placing with the BVI company

Mkango Resources Ltd., an exploration company working in the Republic of Malawi, has received conditional regulatory approval for the previously announced placing, according to which BVI-registered Talaxis Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Group, invested £500,000 at 3.5 pence per equity unit to acquire 14.5 per cent interest in Mkango.

The investment by the BVI company has been completed by placing 14,285,715 equity units of Mkango. The new shares are applied to be admitted to AIM. Following the placing, Talaxis will hold an interest of 14.5% in Mkango Resources. In connection with the placing, Talaxis has been issued 14,285,715 common shares of Mkango and Share purchase warrants to acquire up to 12 million Shares of Mkango. Each warrant is exercisable at a price of 6.6 pence until December 31, 2020.

Also, the 12 million Share purchase warrants previously issued to Noble Resources International Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble, will be cancelled. The BVI subsidiary will not exercise that proportion of its Talaxis Warrants which would result in it holding 20% or more of the outstanding Shares.

Following AIM admission, Mkango Resources will have 98,198,187 common shares in issue.

Monday, October 9, 2017

Luxoft Holding acquired Swiss company focused on Avaloq implementations

Luxoft Holding, Inc. announced that it has acquired UNAFORTIS, a Swiss company specializing in business consulting, Avaloq implementation and other IT services, including testing. Avaloq is a provider of fully integrated banking software, and UNAFORTIS is one of leading partners implementing Avaloq-related services.

The acquisition will add to BVI company’s expertise in standardized software, and will enable Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services to target growing global client base in banking sector. It will also allow the company to better differentiate and compete for complex end-to-end transformational engagements.

Luxoft Holding also plans to offer Avaloq-based services beyond mostly Swiss-client base of UNAFORTIS, and to develop more wealth management and private banking clients. The BVI company expects to build a 150 to 200-engineer global practice, taking advantage of the shared markets of Excelian and recently acquired derivIT in the UK, APAC, Germany and North America, as well as core capabilities of Luxoft.

UNAFORTIS partners commented on the acquisition deal: ”We are very pleased with our alliance with Luxoft. We believe that both the company’s culture and domain expertise will make for a successful acquisition… Our company has grown significantly in the last few years and still has a deep pipeline for further growth. We will help Luxoft grow its presence in wealth management and private and retail banking with the support of our highly skilled consultants.”