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Wipro to acquire Viteos Group

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Viteos Group, a BPaaS provider for the Alternative Investment Management Industry for a purchase consideration of USD 130 million.

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Bloomberg to acquire Barclays' Risk Analytics and Index Solutions business

Bloomberg L.P. announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions Ltd. ("BRAIS"), a leading provider of benchmark and strategy indices, portfolio analytics, risk and attribution models, and portfolio construction tools.

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Payvision announces strategic investment in PayPlaza

Payvision, one of the fastest-growing global acquiring networks in the world, today announced that it has closed a strategic investment and agreement with PayPlaza, a leading payment software company and one of most innovative in financial services.

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Global Payments confirms $4.3bn deal to buy Heartland Payment Systems

Global Payments Inc. (GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. (HPY), one of the nation’s largest payment companies.

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Accenture buys Beacon Consulting Group

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Beacon Consulting Group, a trusted advisor and management consultant to the North American asset management community.

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Intercontinental Exchange completes acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation

Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today completed its previously announced $5.2 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation (Interactive Data), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related trading solutions.

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Courion acquires Core Security

Courion, a leading intelligent Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions provider, announced today the acquisition of Core Security, a leader in the vulnerability management and attack intelligence space.

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Q2 buys Social Money

Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: QTWO), a provider of secure, cloud-based virtual banking solutions, today announced the acquisition of Des Moines, Iowa-based Social Money, a financial services software company that offers a modern, cloud-based platform that assists financial institutions in their direct digital strategies, best represented in their award-winning SmartyPig product.

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Wealthsimple acquires automated investment manager ShareOwner

Wealthsimple Financial Inc., Canada's leading online investing service, announced it has acquired Canadian ShareOwner Investments Inc., the country's first automated investment manager.

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FIS completes SunGard acquisition

FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, today announced the closing of its acquisition of SunGard, one of the world’s leading financial software and technology services companies.

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Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic acquires 49% stake in Network International

Network International (the “Company”), a leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa, today announced that affiliates of global investment firms Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic have agreed to acquire a 49% stake in the Company from The Abraaj Group (“Abraaj”).

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MyBucks and Opportunity International Partner to drive financial inclusion for 460 million unbanked

Opportunity, Inc., a next generation microfinance organization that invests philanthropic and social impact capital to spark and scale innovative solutions to global poverty, has entered into a share purchase agreement to sell six banks serving sub-Saharan Africa to the MyBucks Group, a Luxembourg-based financial technology (fintech) company which holds the three brands GetBucks, GetSure and GetBanked.

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Prepaid Financial Services announces the sale of 5% of its shares for £2.5m

Prepaid Financial Services (PFS), a leading e-money institution that specialises in prepaid card issuing, acquiring and providing alternative banking solutions via its own technology platform, today announced it has sold 5% of the company to a strategic investor after being valued in excess of £50m.

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Western Union confirms acqusition talks with OzForex

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) today confirmed that it has submitted a non-binding, indicative proposal to potentially acquire online payments services provider OzForex Group Limited, which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

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PayPal closes Xoom acquisition

PayPal, Inc. (PYPL) and Xoom Corporation (XOOM) today announced that PayPal has completed its previously announced acquisition of Xoom.

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Broadridge buys QED Financial Systems

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR) has acquired privately-held investment accounting solutions provider QED Financial Systems, Inc. QED provides software-based investment accounting solutions, data management and outsourced investment accounting services to more than 40 institutional investors and asset managers who together have more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Verifone buys Germany's InterCard

Verifone (PAY) announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire InterCard AG, a leading Payment as a Service provider in Germany.

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Virtusa to acquire majority stake in Polaris

Polaris Consulting and Services Ltd. (“Polaris”), an innovator in digital transformation and financial technology, has entered into a definitive Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Virtusa Corporation (“Virtusa”) whereby a subsidiary of Virtusa will acquire approximately 53% of the paid up share capital of Polaris from certain promoter entities led by Arun Jain and certain other shareholders, including OrbiTech Private Ltd (formerly known as Orbitech Limited).

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OneMarketData acquires Tick Data

OneMarketData, the founders of OneTick, a single solution for event stream processing and time series management of historical and real-time tick data, today announced the acquisition of Virginia-based Tick Data Inc., a trusted and leading provider of historical intraday exchange time series data, for an undisclosed sum.

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LSE completes sale of Proquote to Iress

London Stock Exchange Group today confirms that it has completed the sale of Proquote, a market data vendor and retail trading provider in the United Kingdom, to Iress, as announced on 15 September 2015.