After nearly three years as senior director of Rabo Private Equity, which covers majority and minority deals, Anders has moved to become MD of Rabo Ventures.

After a decade at mezzanine debt and equity provider McKenna Gale Capital, Ferguson has been hired by Manulife Capital, which provides long-term growth capital in the form of equity and subordinated debt for private companies.

The Taiwan-based financial services firm is aiming to raise up to $300m in funding for a corporate venturing unit which will operate in mainland China.

American Express will deploy $100m into early stage through a digital commerce initiative led from Silicon Valley by Harshul Sanghi, previously at Motorola Mobility Ventures.

The era of the star dealmaker necessarily running a venture capital firm as an amateur manager is increasingly over and into this era of greater professionalism has come US-listed bank Citigroup.

Yoshitaka Kitao (pictured), chief executive of SBI Holdings, a financial conglomerate originated from Japan-based Softbank's investment division with no capital relationship since August 2006.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the firms to have acquired a minority stake alternative trading market Chi-X Global.

Tata Capital has closed the second round of its Opportunities Fund, with the fund reaching $550m.