Eight Capital Partners plc (“ECP”) is an international financial services operating company, whose wholly owned subsidiary, Epsion Capital Limited (“Epsion”), sources, advises, finances, invests in, and delivers transactions for SME businesses within the technology, media, telecoms, and financial services sectors. ECP has recently refined its strategy to focus increasingly on businesses engaged in “Fintech” operations, including the digitization of banking services, blockchain-backed decentralized finance, and “crypto banking.”
ECP believes there are many value creation opportunities for shareholders from further aligning and expanding the activities of Epsion. By combining this advisory and transactional expertise with the strategic utilization of ECP’s growing in-house capital resources, the company is able to provide significant support to the transactions managed by its operating subsidiary through the provision of early-stage and growth co-investment capital.
The competitive advantage of ECP’s new operating structure is its flexibility in terms of where it invests in the capital stack pyramid, being equally comfortable with private or public debt and/or equity positions, convertibles, and structured equity or debt facilities. Much of the financial services advisory market only delivers third-party capital and advice, without direct access to supportive in-house capital, or access to in-house capital lines with a less flexible mandate.
ECP has therefore moved away from a pure investment strategy to a financial services operating strategy, whereby our clients’ financial services transactions can be supported by in-house capital.