Vista Doubles $2B Investment in Apptio Sale to IBM

Rao joins Vector after five years at Vista Equity Partners, where he was chief operating officer of its operations team.

Blackstone is among the investment firms that have expressed interest, and a transaction could value Finastra at as much as $12 billion.

From a cross-asset CFO to rising deferred-payment terms and billion-dollar continuation vehicles, private equity’s liquidity toolkit is converging — and testing how much of the real price GPs are willing to show.