Tagged: acquisition

March 24, 2023 @ 4:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the acquisition of fraud detection company Nethone in November 2022, Mangopay continues strengthening its payment flow capabilities “by acquiring WhenThen, a payment orchestration and payments automation platform, providing powerful payment acceptance and payment operations to marketplaces and platforms big and small.” Just four months… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aumni, a provider of investment analytics software to the venture capital industry. Financial terms of the transaction “were not disclosed and closing is expected in the first half of 2023.”… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a global firm specializing in outsourced trading on an agency basis for a variety of asset classes including equities, listed derivatives and fixed income. The transaction is… Read More

March 21, 2023 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) recently acquired cloud-based cybersecurity company Baffin Bay Networks in order to better help businesses deal “with the increasingly challenging nature of cyberattacks.” Baffin Bay Networks, based in Sweden, “adds to Mastercard’s multi-layered approach to cybersecurity and helps to stop attacks, while mitigating… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 7:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cuscal Limited, which claims to be one of Australia’s largest independent providers of payments, banking, and regulated data and Basiq Pty Ltd, a Consumer Data Right (CDR) platform that provides data services to banks, Fintechs, and start-ups, have entered into a binding agreement under which… Read More

March 13, 2023 @ 4:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the company’s acquisition of Boa Vista Serviços, which is reportedly the second-largest credit bureau in Brazil. Equifax and Boa Vista Serviços “entered into a Merger… Read More

March 11, 2023 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Orion Innovation, a digital transformation and product development services firm, announced the acquisition of Banktech Software Services Ltd, a core banking implementation partner for global financial institutions. Banktech will complement Orion’s financial services business by “bringing additional industry expertise, open banking solutions, and implementation capabilities… Read More

March 10, 2023 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Molo Finance is pleased to announce Australian mortgage lender ColCap has acquired an 80% shareholding in Molo. This follows “on from the strategic partnership with Molo and ColCap entered into last year.” The investment will “allow Molo to benefit from ColCap’s depth of funding and… Read More

March 9, 2023 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Big Data Healthcare, a technology solutions provider for healthcare payments and remittance. This transaction “adds national healthcare revenue cycle capabilities, addressing the complex and complicated needs of clients, while building on Fifth Third’s legacy… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments and financial platform Airwallex has secured a payment business license in China, following the successful acquisition of “a 100% stake in Guangzhou Shang Wu Tong Network Technology Co., Ltd., an information and online payment services company. Shang Wu Tong Network Technology has a… Read More

March 8, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the announcement of impressive growth in the past year, Weavr has confirmed the acquisition of B2B Open Banking platform, Comma Payments, in “a first-of-its kind deal within the world of embedded finance.” The acquisition, which is “largely equity-based, will see Weavr retain most of… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 6:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), which claims to be the world’s largest telematics service provider, announced that it has acquired Amodo, a telematics company based in Europe. The acquisition brings together two telematics companies “with large and growing footprints in Europe, giving Amodo’s customers access to… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With over $130 billion of quarterly institutional trading volume and over $50 billion of institutional assets on platform, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) claims it “operates at the center of the institutional digital asset market.” Their products are purpose-built “to provide secure access to digital assets and Web3…. Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantexa, a global player focused on Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced that it has acquired Aylien, a Dublin-based leader in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced AI to empower its customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data…. Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashfree Payments, India’s payments and API banking company, announced its strategic acquisition of Zecpe, a one-click checkout company. Zecpe enables e-commerce businesses “to improve checkout conversion by making the process quick and seamless for customers.” Zecpe will now “operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cashfree… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Doconomy, the climate technology startup helping banks, brands, and consumers to better understand and reduce their environmental impact – has acquired Stockholm-based financial wellbeing fintech Dreams Technology. This marks the “first” deal of its kind “to bridge the unique intersection of behavioural economics and climate… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Noventiq (LSE: SFTL), the global digital transformation and cybersecurity solutions and services provider, announces that the acquisition of the majority stake of Saga Group has been closed. In September 2022, Noventiq signed an agreement “to acquire Saga Group.” The transaction strengthens Noventiq’s presence in Eastern… Read More

February 23, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, has confirmed the completion of its acquisition of YieldX, a US-based provider of fixed-income portfolio management technology and optimization services for the wealth management industry. The acquisition “brings together the full-service end-to-end platform of FNZ with YieldX’s market-leading digital… Read More

February 16, 2023 @ 6:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zopa has announced the acquisition of buy now – pay later (BNPL) platform  DivideBuy. Terms of the transaction were not immediately available. Zopa recently raised £75 million as it gears up for the possibility of more acquisitions. The acquisition is expected to complete in the… Read More

February 15, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coinmetro has announced that their firm has acquired Ignium.io, a blockchain-native fundraising platform for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), for EUR 4 mil.” Ignium was “created to address the pressing issue of 60 million small businesses world-wide lacking optimum financial services.” The… Read More