BATS intends to combine the BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe MTFs, which will be known as BATS Chi-X Europe and will account for approximately 25% of overall European equities trading.

Smartblue received seed financing to monitor photovoltaic systems while HTGF, state fund Bayern Kapital and angel investor Dieter Manstein invested in GME Medical Engineering.

David Colclough has joined as an investment director of the Business Growth Fund while Neil Inskip is an investment manager, with both based in the Manchester office run by regional director Andy Gregory.

Investment banks Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are co-lead underwriters of the initial public offering (IPO) for NDS.

BillSafe will be merged with Ebay's PayPal online payments division.

The Tengelmann Group's venture arm has invested in the mobile advertising specialist.

Portfolio company leaders gather in London from the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company's corporate venturing unit.

The company was currently talking with other venture capital firms to pursue joint investment opportunities, allowing it to participate in bigger deals.

The Spain-based phone operator is now tapped into the most important dealflow in technology around the world, after moving into Israel and Silicon Valley.