Tagged: acquisition

September 4, 2025 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global financial platform for various businesses, announced the acquisition of OpenPay, a San Francisco-based billing platform that offers subscription management, payment orchestration, and revenue analytics. The acquisition will bring OpenPay’s billing and analytics capabilities into Airwallex’s global platform, strengthening Airwallex’s position “against other… Read More

September 2, 2025 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Zopa Group, a digital bank, has acquired payments platform Rvvup in a move that is expected to 3X its  embedded finance business in two years. The acquisition is predicted to boost its point of sale credit services supporting all payment options. The acquisition is Zopa’s… Read More

August 28, 2025 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move to strengthen its position as a global enabler of digital transformation and artificial intelligence, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced two significant acquisitions: NeuraFlash, a Salesforce and generative AI consulting firm, and SI&C Co., Ltd., a Tokyo-based provider of advanced digital technology and consulting… Read More

August 28, 2025 @ 7:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bow River Capital, a Denver-based alternative asset manager, announced  that it has acquired the asset-based financing business of Dallas-based Park Cities Asset Management, an asset manager focused on providing capital solutions to the lower middle market. The acquisition expands Bow River’s capabilities in private credit… Read More

August 28, 2025 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is actively considering strategies to accelerate its growth in the United States, a market critical to its global expansion plans. According to sources familiar with the matter and cited by Bloomberg, the company is exploring the possibility of acquiring a US-based lender… Read More

August 24, 2025 @ 11:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pollen Street announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Leonard Curtis, a corporate restructuring provider operating across the UK and offshore. The multi-disciplinary professional services firm, which is headquartered in Manchester, reportedly has “over 30 years’ experience providing restructuring, legal, funding, M&A advisory and other… Read More

August 21, 2025 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Kraken has announced the acquisition of the assets and technology of Capitalise.ai, an Israel-based firm focused on no-code, natural-language trading automation. Founded in 2015, Capitalise.ai developed a “natural-language platform that transforms everyday text into executable trading strategies.” Its proprietary language model and… Read More

August 21, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Ember, a UK based Fintech company. Ember’s tax and bookkeeping software will be “built into Starling Bank’s app and online bank, providing small business owners with an all-in-one solution to manage their finances, from bank transactions… Read More

August 15, 2025 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Greencoat, the specialist energy transition manager of Schroders Capital, and JERA Nex, the global renewable energy developer, are pleased to announce that Schroders Greencoat has taken “a 50% stake in JERA Nex’s US solar portfolio.” The portfolio is comprised of the “300MW Oxbow Solar… Read More

August 12, 2025 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PwC US has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Kunai, an agile software consultancy specializing in AI, cloud-first web, mobile and infrastructure platforms for the financial services industry. This proposed strategic acquisition aligns with PwC’s commitment to helping clients “reach… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based payments company GoCardless is reportedly close to being (potentially) acquired by Dutch Fintech Mollie, with a possible deal expected to finalize as early as next month. Sources familiar with the matter indicate that GoCardless has been actively engaging with prospective buyers since early 2025,… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be one the largest companies in the digital assets industry, has acquired a minority equity stake in Bit2Me, the Spanish-speaking digital asset platform. As part of the investment, Tether is also “leading a €30 million funding round, set to close in… Read More

August 7, 2025 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced it has agreed to acquire Rail, a stablecoin-powered platform for global payments, for $200 million. Rail enables Fintechs, payment providers, neobanks, enterprise orgs, and more to offer payment solutions “for their operations (and their customers’) with everything from virtual IBANs and named… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Polymarket has acquired a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, QCEX, a Designated Contract Market. In a series of posts on X, Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket, explained that the acquisition will enable them to serve brokerages and traders in the US. Polymarket was compelled to… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional trading and portfolio technology for digital assets, announced that it will acquire Coin Metrics, the provider of crypto financial intelligence. By incorporating Coin Metrics’ crypto market data, blockchain analytics and benchmark indexes with Talos’s platform – a unified order and… Read More

July 14, 2025 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank is reportedly engaged in advanced discussions to acquire Curve, a UK-based Fintech company, for approximately £120 million. Curve is also a company that pursued securities crowdfunding, raising money online during its earlier days. According to sources cited by Sky News, the deal could… Read More

July 13, 2025 @ 5:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The roll-up of Dutch payroll software company Employes marks Danish-founded Ageras‘ second acquisition this year and its “most significant since its 2024 takeover of French business banking platform Shine from Société Générale,” says Ageras’ CEO, signalling that change is “coming for the way small businesses… Read More

July 11, 2025 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced the acquisition of the leadership team from Opyn Markets, a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives protocol. This acqui-hire, revealed on July 11, 2025, underscores Coinbase’s commitment to advancing its onchain markets infrastructure and accelerating the integration of decentralized financial systems into its platform…. Read More

July 10, 2025 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clarity AI, which claims to be one of the largest technology and AI firms focused on sustainability, announced the acquisition of ecolytiq, a provider of in-app climate engagement solutions for financial institutions and their retail and commercial banking customers globally. This move reinforces Clarity AI’s… Read More

July 9, 2025 @ 5:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI firm CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ), a data center infrastructure provider, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which CoreWeave will acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Core Scientific stockholders will… Read More