Kensington Merchant invests opportunistically within the financials sector.

Our approach begins in partnering with operators to support their path to executing on their vision. Wtih operating and entrepreneurial experience spanning from building a global regulated financial institution to founding a regulatory-focused industry association, our background can be leveraged with the operating teams we work with. We've invested in growth areas that form the foundations of the evolving financial and technological ecosystem. We leverage our experience and an extensive network to uncover prime opportunities, navigating through risk, technology, regulation, and compliance. Our unique perspective drives success in the ever-evolving financial landscape. Using a broad toolset to develop creative capital solutions to enhance and facilitate this execution.

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WHO WE ARE

Kensington seeks to align investor capital with world class businesses and leaders – we believe money should be patient and responsive.  

Partnership extends from the partners who invest with us to the CEOs and companies we invest in and the ecosystem we create.

OUR APPROACH

Our approach ensures that capital is not just a resource but a dynamic force that drives growth and innovation.

Our network’s resources help companies forge strategic relationships that open new opportunities, enhance their capabilities and achieve long term goals. At KMP, we are committed to fostering partnerships that create lasting value and drive sustainable success.

What We Do

  • Financial Sector Focus

    Financials are the largest sector globally. Allowing for a broad mandate in the most promising area for investment and transformation.

    Opportunities include origination platforms, financial services, insurance, payments, capital markets, servicing, asset management, fintech, insurtech, and blockchains.

  • Creative Capital Solutions

    KMP looks to structure captial solutions that align long term partnership with investors and management.

  • Digitization Impact

    Revolutionizing the industry by replacing traditional intermediaries with advanced software solutions.

    Technology upgrades through financials are increasing efficency - from insurance underwriting improvements, data analysis, enhancing credit and banking services for underbanked and underserved populations, to increased solutions for compliance and faster cheaper payment rails.

    Many technology focused firms are unable to navigate financial regulatory regimes, while many financial insitutions end up with piecemeal technical solutions and stacking technical debt.

WHY FINANCIALS

We take a wide aperture looking across the sector – recognizing the synergies created through capital, risk, liability creation, asset origination, services and the infrastructure that these functions run on. From a high level, there are many common traits across these businesses – customer acquisition, compliance management, servicing and balance sheet risk.

The commonalities allow our networks to work together and share resources but also translate learnings, while opportunities can be cash flow businesses to balance sheets to blockchains, we seek to find the most attractive risk/return profiles, led by exceptional management teams that we can partner with. 

Our Founder

Oliver Wiener is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kensington Merchant Partners. Formerly, a Portfolio Manager at Standard Investments, and prior to that a founding partner at BTIG, where he helped build and manage multiple business lines. He is the founder and former Board President of The Association of Digital Asset Markets, a digital asset focused regulatory organization.

Oliver graduated from University of Wisconsin with a dual major BA in International Relations and Political Science, where he currently sits on the College of Letters & Science Board of Visitors and the Technology Entrepreneurship Office Advisory Board. He lives in New York City with his wife, three daughters and bernedoodle.

Get in Touch

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