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Tuesday, April 27 2021 - 00:24
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Novantas and Informa's FBX Group Combine to Create New Competitive Intelligence and Solutions Company
NEW YORK, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Novantas, a leading provider of solutions for financial services professionals, 
today announced they are part of an agreement that will see Novantas combined 
with Informa Financial Intelligence's FBX business, to create a leading 
competitive intelligence and specialist data company serving the retail and 
commercial banking market. 

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The partnership is between Informa, Novantas and Inflexion, a mid-market 
private equity firm that is also investing in the combination of the businesses.

With their unified offerings and solutions, this combination will create a data 
intelligence business serving the retail and commercial banking market across 
lending, deposits, and digital banking solutions. 

FBX, a brand within the Informa Financial Intelligence portfolio, a subsidiary 
of Informa plc, brings together competitive performance data and customer 
journey research to deliver customers a comprehensive assessment of their 
competitive, go-to-market position. Highly complementary of one another, the 
combination of Novantas and FBX will continue to help their banking clients 
acquire and retain customers and sell more profitable products. 

"Novantas and Informa have worked closely together for the past twenty years, 
providing clients with market leading and complementary services in pricing, 
marketing and channel management," said Dave Kaytes, Co-CEO of Novantas. 
"Formalizing this relationship with Informa and partnering with Inflexion 
present us with opportunities to address an even greater scope of client 
challenges."

The new company will be jointly owned by Informa, Inflexion, and Novantas 
shareholders. The combination is subject to the finalization of additional 
terms and documentation as well as US regulatory approval and is expected to 
complete by the end of the second quarter, 2021. 

About Novantas, Inc.  
Novantas, a leading fintech provider of advanced decision support systems and 
data, provides financial institutions licensed offerings such as cross-bank 
data, predictive scoring and advanced analytics.  Serving hundreds of the 
world's largest banking institutions, Novantas delivers solutions that allow 
clients to be precise, nimble and economic as they transition their customers 
into a digital work.  With focus on providing products that improve each bank's 
ability to target and acquire customers, increase customer relationship value, 
optimize rate pricing and volume, improve distribution network efficiency, 
launch new products more profitable and accelerate digital transformation, 
Novantas delivers actional intelligence on customers deposits and markets. For 
additional information, please visit www.novantas.com

About Financial Benchmarking & Omnichannel Experience (FBX)  
Financial Benchmarking & Omnichannel Experience (FBX), a subsidiary of Informa 
plc (LSE: INF), provides bank peer benchmarking services, banking workflow 
solutions and omnichannel banking experience research services to retail banks 
worldwide. FBX, part of Informa Financial Intelligence, brings together 
competitive performance data and customer journey research to provide a 
comprehensive assessment of a competitive position. Through a synchronized 
view, FBX provides targeted information to identify key levers for improving 
relative performance. For additional information, please visit 
https://financialintelligence.informa.com/fbx.

About Informa Financial Intelligence  
Financial Intelligence, part of the Informa Intelligence Division of Informa 
PLC, is a leading provider of products and services helping financial 
institutions around the world cut through the noise and take decisive action. 
Informa Financial Intelligence's solutions provide unparalleled insight into 
market opportunity, competitive performance and customer segment behavioral 
patterns and performance through specialized industry research, intelligence, 
and insight. For more information, please visit 
https://financialintelligence.informa.com.  

About Inflexion 
Inflexion is a leading mid-market private equity firm which invests in high 
growth, entrepreneurial businesses with ambitious management teams and works in 
partnership with them to accelerate growth. Inflexion's flexible approach 
allows it to back both majority and minority investments, typically investing 
pounds Sterling 10m to pounds 300m of equity in each deal.  

With bespoke teams and dedicated capital, Inflexion's funds invest across a 
variety of sectors from offices in London, Manchester and Amsterdam. Inflexion 
helps businesses achieve the next stage of growth through M&A, international 
expansion, digital enhancement, talent development, commercial strategy, and 
access to Inflexion's global networks. It also benefits from a local presence 
in Bangalore, Boston, São Paulo and Shanghai dedicated to portfolio 
development, enabling investee companies to benefit from privileged access to 
these fast-growth markets. 

Inflexion is one of Preqin's most consistent Top Performing Buyout Funds and is 
a regular recipient of industry accolades for its success in growing the 
businesses it backs.  

Funds advised by Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP have funds under 
management of c. pounds 5.4bn.   

Read more at www.inflexion.com 

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SOURCE  Novantas