Tagged: acquisition

October 27, 2025 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank announced this past week the acquisition of Kriya, the SME lending Fintech specialising in SME working capital and embedded finance. The move aims to boost Allica’s SME lending proposition and sees the UK based Fintech move into the embedded payments market. The businesses… Read More

October 26, 2025 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave Labs has acquired Stable Finance, a San Francisco-based fintech company. This acquisition will help Aave Labs develop more consumer-focused products for decentralized finance (DeFi). As part of the deal, Stable Finance founder Mario Baxter Cabrera will now become Aave Labs’ Director of Product. The… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced its plans earlier this year to acquire Hidden Road, one of the non-bank prime brokers, providing institutions a “one-stop-shop” for services such as clearing, prime brokerage, and financing across foreign exchange, digital assets, derivatives, swaps, and fixed income. Ripple noted in a… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain infrastructure provider Fireblocks has announced the acquisition of US-headquareted Dynamic, a digital wallet development platform that is reportedly backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as well as Founders Fund. The acquisition is said to valued at around $90 million. The update marks Fireblocks’ initial move… Read More

October 23, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Square has announced the launch of its AI CRM for Investor Relations – the CRM is built for private markets funding. The AI CRM for Investor Relations uses JunieAI to automate manual tasks, “enrich investor data, and surface insights to help investor relations teams… Read More

October 22, 2025 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer says it has signed an agreement to acquire Zimpler, a Pay by Bank network in the Nordics. The acquisition will now aim bring together two of Europe’s Pay by Bank providers, further strengthening TrueLayer as a key player in the crowded European payments industry…. Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pier Two, the institutional staking and infrastructure provider, announced the acquisition of Solana validator Blockport. The latest acquisition highlights Pier Two’s growing commitment to the Solana ecosystem and brings on board Blockport Co-Founders Adrian Ciaffoncini and Nik Herrmann, whose experience and focus on the Solana… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has announced its acquisition of Echo, an onchain capital formation platform for approximately $375 million. Established by Cobie, a crypto investor and supporter of community-focused investing, Coinbase is now well positioned to challenge the established securities crowdfunding sector as digital assets go mainstream…. Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has agreed to acquire With Intelligence, a leading source of private markets data, insights and analytics, for $1.8 billion. The deal was cut with a group led by majority investor Motive Partners, a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology. By… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has introduced a new addition to its product suite, the Carta Loan Operations, purpose-built for private credit companies currently navigating the complexity of loan admin workflows. Carta Loan Operations comes as a result of their acquisition of Sirvatus, a loan administration platform for private… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figment announced that they have acquired Rated, the provider of staking and validator analytics. By joining with Figment, they can carry forward and scale the important work that the Rated team has done in ore to bring more clarity, standards, and maturity to the digital… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 3:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm Ripple has acquired GTreasury, a company that provides treasury services to CFOs and Treasurers. According to a release, Ripple purchased the firm for $1 billion. Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, said the combination of the two firms will bring the best of… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets and investing platform Kraken has announced it has acquired Small Exchange, which is described as a CFTC-licensed Designated Contract Market (DCM), from IG Group., for $100 million. According to Kraken, this latest update aims to establish the foundation for the crypto trading platform… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut recently announced the acquisition of Swifty, an AI-powered travel agent startup incubated at Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH). This latest acquisition by Revolut brings Swifty’s AI tech and Co Founders Stanislav Bondarenko and Tomasz Przedmojski to Revolut, where they will focus on enhancing… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move to enhance its role in private markets, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) announced on October 13, 2025, an agreement to acquire Industry Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. The deal, which expands Goldman’s alternatives platform amid surging demand for secondary transactions, underscores the… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital solution platform Bold Penguin announced it has acquired SquareRisk, a marketplace that discovers, quotes, and binds specialty MGA products across more than 45 carriers via a single interface. Bold Penguin users will have additional commercial insurance policy coverage options beyond the admitted space to… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) are both bidding in order to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK in a deal that may be valued at around $2.5 billion, according to an update from Fortune. While citing various sources familiar with the matter, the outlet said… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Fifth Third (Nasdaq: FITB) will acquire Comerica (NYSE: CMA), according to a public statement. The deal will create the ninth-largest US bank, with approximately $288 billion in assets. Shares of both banks moved higher in early market trading. Fifth Third will pay approximately $10.9 billion in… Read More

October 5, 2025 @ 1:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced the acquisition of Victor Technologies, Inc., which is described as a cloud-native, API-first provider of innovative direct-to-core embedded payments solutions, from MVB Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: MVBF). The acquisition expands Jack Henry’s capabilities in the Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) market,… Read More

October 4, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta, the software platform for private capital, announced it acquired Accelex, the AI-enhanced data automation platform focused on alternative investments for institutional limited partners. The acquisition deepens Carta’s commitment to serving its network of 125,000+ Limited Partners by providing more clarity into the drivers of… Read More