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The London Stock Exchange is once again grappling with technical problems on a day when its shares have taken a hammering on fears that Borse Dubai may be forced to dump its 20% stake in the UK market.
26 November 2009
Aim-listed CRM vendor Portrait Software swung to a first half profit, boosted by a doubling of license sales and strong progress in the US market.
25 November 2009
France's Credit Agricole has signed an agreement to "explore the possibility" of merging its card and payment processing operations with Equens.
Interactive Data has agreed to buy the assets of Online Financial Solutions (OFS) from Dow Jones.
24 November 2009
Citi has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Diners Club North America card business to Bank of Montreal (BMO). Financial terms were not disclosed.
Swiss-based STP vendor Sterci is to acquire a 25% equity stake in back office software house and Swift Service Bureau operator Simplex Consulting.
23 November 2009
UK-based digital payments firm Earthport is set to take receipt of a first-year £3.25 million franchise fee from Zink Financial for the territories of Central America, South America and the caribbean.
Amsterdam-based digital security vendor Gemalto has entered into exclusive negotiations to buy the banking unit of French authentication outfit Xiring. Terms of the proposed deal were not disclosed.
Deutsche Börse has acquired US financial news outfit Need to Know News, in an effort to raise the profile of its market data and analytical offerings with algorithmic traders.
20 November 2009
US-based transaction processor Global Payments has agreed to sell its money transfer businesses to private-equity firm Palladium Equity Partners in a deal that could be worth up to $110 million.
18 November 2009
American Express is to acquire Revolution Money, a two-year old start-up founded with the express aim of emulating Paypal in online payments and circumventing plastic card interchange fees in the offline realm.
Visa Europe has taken a stake in authentication specialist Emue Technologies, with which it has been developing a card that contains a display for generating one-time numeric codes. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
UK payments processor VocaLink has outlined plans to split the business into three units - clearings, cards and Euro services - as it bids to take advantage of Sepa and expand its presence on the continent.
16 November 2009
Dow Jones has agreed to sell its 33.3% stake in Swiss index provider Stoxx to Deutsche Börse and Six Group for EUR206.1 million in cash.
12 November 2009
US P2P lending outfit Prosper has sold a convertible promissory note worth $1 million at 15% per annum interest to the venture capital firm run by Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris.
11 November 2009
Heartland Payment Systems has revised its third quarter results after doubling the provision - to $73.3 million - for expenses related to the massive data breach it suffered last year.
10 November 2009
Private equity house Carlyle has agreed to purchase OpenLink Financial, a software developer for the commodity, energy and financial services industries, from TA Associates. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
09 November 2009
ConvergEx has agreed to acquire the US electronic agency execution business of Nyfix Transaction Services, comprising the Millennium Alternative Trading System (ATS) and its direct market access (DMA) and algorithmic products.
ICICI Bank, US technology group Metavante and Singapore state investor Temasek have revived plans to sell their stakes in Indian BPO venture Firstsource, according to Reuters.
The founder of online payments operator WorldPay, Nick Ogden, has formally approached the Royal Bank of Scotland about buying the business back.
06 November 2009
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