Parseq Directors Approve Takeover Bid

The board of directors for U.K.-based Parseq, an online banking software specialist and provider of financial sector outsourcing services, have backed a takeover bid from a group led by the company's CEO, Rami Cassis.

The takeover offer, for 33.8 million pounds, from Cassis and his partners Nova Capital HarbourVest Partners was accepted by the tech vendor's independent directors Richard Last, Phillip Blundell, Clive Richards and Simon Rubin. Cassis already owns 35.5 percent of Parseq.

"As a private company with a strong parent, Parseq will benefit from greater access to funding which will better enable the company to maintain its leading position in the mobile banking software arena and to capitalise on opportunities on a global basis," said Last in a prepared statement.

Parseq was created last year after the reverse takeover of Intelligent Environments by Documetric, which was founded in 2007 by Cassis through the management buyout of the data services bureau of IT outsourcer Atos Origin.

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