Tagged: acquisition

January 8, 2023 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a global business payments company, completed the acquisition of Global Reach Group, a UK-based cross-border payments provider. With the acquisition, FLEETCOR “increases its cross-border payments scale and strengthens its position as a leading non-bank B2B global cross-border payments provider.” Global… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT), the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance, announced a definitive agreement “to acquire Imburse Payments, a Swiss-based modern payments platform.” Imburse’s cloud-native software-as-a-service (SaaS) payment solution is “built for the insurance industry.” The modern… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech company Twenty7tec recently announced the acquisition of mortgage affordability platform Broker Sense for an undisclosed amount. Broker Sense, established by Stuart Phillips and Mark Spilsbury, assists mortgage advisers with assessing customer affordability against lender rules, while also ensuring that they recommend the appropriate lender… Read More

December 23, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UAE-based Fintech Galaxy, the “first” Central Bank-regulated Open Finance platform in the Middle East, announced the acquisition of Underlie, an Egypt-based Open Banking platform offering APIs to banks and businesses. The deal will help “to set FTG’s Open Finance and Open Banking wheels in full… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

United Fintech, the end-to-end solution for banking technology, announced the 100 percent acquisition of Cobalt, the provider of critical risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. The acquisition elevates United Fintech’s position “as the leading end-to-end solution connecting financial institutions with… Read More

December 16, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

STP Investment Services (STP), a global, technology-enabled, end-to-end investment operations service provider, announced it has acquired WealthSite, a firm that provides “a fully integrated and highly customized accounting, portfolio management, reporting and analytics platform to single and multi-family offices, traditional wealth advisory firms and money… Read More

December 14, 2022 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), a key player focused on Business Spend Management (BSM), announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement “to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm.” This is “an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of $8.0 billion.” Upon… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Danish natural resources specialist International Woodland Company (IWC). IWC is headquartered in Copenhagen and reportedly “has more than 30 years’ experience in providing investment management and advisory services within sustainable timberland investments, agriculture… Read More

December 10, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TreviPay, a key player focused on global B2B payments and invoicing solutions, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire payment platform Apruve. Apruve offers “a robust suite of payment solutions for global enterprises that will complement and expand on TreviPay’s existing order-to-cash technology… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decimal, a Fintech company offering bookkeeping and accounting operations for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs),  announced it “has acquired the cloud-based bookkeeping service and certain other assets of KPMG Spark, owned by Big Four tax, accounting and advisory firm KPMG LLP.” Financial terms “were not… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 11:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, which claims to be the world’s “leading” blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, announced it has “acquired 100% of Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC), the Japanese-registered crypto exchange service provider.” Through this acquisition, Binance enters “the Japanese market, as a Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA)… Read More

November 26, 2022 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

QUANTIFEED, the provider of digital wealth management solutions, announces that it has acquired ALPIMA, a London-based portfolio construction, visualisation, and analytics fintech company. Alex Ypsilanti, Co-Founder and CEO of Quantifeed, said: “We are very excited about bringing together two hugely talented teams of financial engineers… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm focused on building, backing, and buying the technology companies that enable the financial economy, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire embedded/capital GmbH, a European venture capital platform “focused on supporting the next wave of… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fortis, which claims to be the leader in embedded payments for software providers, announced the company is “expanding its suite of technology solutions by acquiring Payment Logistics, a payment technology company based in La Jolla, California.” Payment Logistics “not only brings dozens of embedded payments… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ROX Equity Partners, a UK based private equity company, has acquired SilverBridge. The financial services technology provider “has become the first subsidiary in the newly established Alula Technologies group providing solutions to the insurance and health industries.” As an organization who has demonstrated its ability… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 5:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arkon Energy, which claims to be a “100% renewable” data center infrastructure company, has announced the completion of a US $28M raise. The Australia-based company has also “completed the acquisition of Hydrokraft AS, a leading renewable energy-based data center in Norway.” The Hydrokraft purchase is… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Opn, the one-stop payments solutions company from Japan and Southeast Asia, announced that it has acquired MerchantE, an end-to-end digital commerce platform that “provides payment processing and solutions to businesses of all sizes in the United States.” The acquisition will “accelerate Opn’s growth and innovation… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayTabs — MENA and South Asia’s payments Fintech — in a new move announced that it plans “to acquire a 100% stake in Digital Pay, Saudi Arabia.” Under the terms of the acquisition, Digital Pay will “serve as PayTabs’ flagship point of sale (POS) terminal… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global player focused on payment services, announced the signing of a binding agreement for the acquisition of Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring activities and the planned set-up of a commercial partnership “aiming to leverage Banco Desio’s banking network in order to distribute… Read More

November 8, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) announced that it has agreed to acquire Boston-based Wall Street Horizon, Inc. (WSH), a provider of global market-moving action and global corporate event data. Jay Rajarathinam, Chief Operating Officer, TMX Group, said: “TMX Group is committed to serving the evolving needs… Read More