Sentences with phrase «of arms funds»

The case scheduled to come up before the court on Wednesday was one the two relating to diversion of arms funds instituted against Dasuki and others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The governor stated that the anti-corruption commission had shifted attention to the finances of Ekiti State after what he claimed to be the failure of the commission to link him with the diversion of arms funds at the NSA's office under Dasuki.

He noted every well - meaning Nigerian is of the hope that all those involved in the mismanagement of the arms fund will receive full retribution.

On December 21, Justice Peter Affen granted bail to Dasuki and his co-defendants with respect to another sent 22 counts of misappropriation of about N13bn, which was part of the arms fund, in the sum of N250m with two sureties in like sum.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

• BBH Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., raised $ 250 million in funding.

Both included sizable contributions from OMERS Ventures, the VC arm of the Ontario municipal pension fund.

• Viela Bio, which spun off from MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, raised $ 250 million in funding.

Some entrepreneurs prefer not to seek outside funding, opting to bootstrap — but the majority of startups would welcome funding with open arms if they knew how to secure it.

• NBK Capital Partners, the Dubai - based private equity and real estate investment arm of Watani Investment Company, raised $ 75 million for its real estate fund.

«You can't just sit back and enjoy the moment you have,» says John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm one of Canada's leading pension funds.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

The investors include ARM Innovation Ecosystem Accelerator Limited, a subsidiary of Softbank, X Technology Fund and Tin Fu Fund.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

The girl statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, the fund management arm of Boston - based State Street, to call attention to the role of women in corporate America and its «gender diversity index» fund.

They have received funding from Intel's venture arm among others to the tune of $ 6.3 million.

Caspersen, a 39 - year - old former managing director at PJT Partners» private - equity arm, Park Hill Group, was arrested in March and accused of defrauding a hedge - fund - affiliated charity and an employee of the same hedge fund.

The new fund comes after Samsung (ssnlf) changed the name of its startup investment arm from the Samsung Global Innovation Center, and opened a Tel Aviv office in September.

They include: Acre Venture Partners, a fund that invests on behalf of Campbell Soup; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; GV (Google's venture arm); and DBL Partners.

SAIL Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for market.

The fund's top players sit around a white conference table, armed with Apple laptops and pastel - colored cans of La Croix.

SEOUL, April 4 - Elliott Advisors Limited, an arm of the activist hedge fund, said on Wednesday that it holds more than $ 1 billion of shares in South Korea's Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.

The custom clothing is based on 3 - D models and recently landed $ 3 million in seed funding from Stockholm - based Moor Capital, the investment arm of Kaj Hed, and Silicon Valley - based Founder.org.

Fidelity Charitable, the nonprofit arm of Fidelity Investments that runs its donor - advised fund program, found that 71 percent of millennial women give to charity based on the moment while less than half of baby boomer women do so.

Vox had previously raised $ 100 million in funding, including from the venture arm of NBC Universal's parent company, Comcast (CMCSA).

Koch Equity Development, the private equity arm of Koch Industries, agreed to offer Meredith $ 650 million in preferred equity to fund the acquisition.

Just five months later, the company raised another $ 16 million in a Series A funding round, which included Highland Capital Partners, Fontinalis Partners — the VC firm co-founded by Bill Ford — Signal Ventures, EDBI, the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Samsung Ventures.

(Five percent of the profits go to funding teams run by a non-profit arm called NG Athletics Club, or to donations to kids» sporting groups.)

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with nearly $ 61 billion in net assets.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

The fed funds rate is set by the Federal Open Market Committee — the policy - making arm of the Fed led by Federal Reserve Board chair.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

Highland Funds is the retail arm of Highland Capital Management, L.P. a multibillion - dollar global alternative investment manager founded in 1993 by Jim Dondero and Mark Okada.

John Ruffalo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, and one of Canada's leading pension funds, recently stated: «I believe that the technology community knows how good Canada is as a hotbed of technology.

In September, it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from PremjiInvest, the private investment arm of Wipro Ltd chairman Azim Premji.

Participants in the experiment included Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the fund management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Legg Mason Inc's (LM.N) Western Asset and other investors in the certificate of deposit.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

Mobile application development and distribution company Apps Daily Solutions Pvt Ltd has raised a Series B round of funding from Russian venture firm ru - Net Ltd, IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP) and Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Qualcomm Inc, one of the investors told Techcircle.in..

Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P. and NexPoint Advisors, L.P. are retail arms of Highland Capital Management, L.P. («Highland»), an SEC - registered investment adviser that, together with its affiliates, has approximately $ 14 billion of assets under management.

The cleantech sector has also attracted new entrants: corporate venture arms looking for core and edge innovation, funds with savvy crews of impact investors and entrepreneurs with complementary tools.

Latest case in point comes from a NY Times report that de Blasio is trying to strong - arm trustees of NYC employee pension funds — who are supposed to be fiduciaries of their beneficiaries, not mayoral rubber stamps — into divesting from oil stocks:

Illinois Democrats are pushing legislation to reward schools that use funding to hire therapists instead of armed guards.

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fFund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fundfund.

Mr. Ruffolo is the Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS, one of Canada's leading pension funds.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fFund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fundfund.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

The two Abu Dhabi funds are similar in size and both arms of the state but are distinct entities.

A review of campaign finance records for the NRA Political Victory Fund, the gun - rights group's political arm in Florida, shows it donated regularly...

As part of that work, Microsoft made a massive commitment to provide startups with funding and support through a venture capital arm.

The indexes most commonly used for ARM loan calculation are: the 1 - year constant - maturity Treasury (CMT) securities, the Cost of Funds Index (COFI), and the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).