Mergers and acquisitions

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BBVA charges forward with hostile bid for Banco Sabadell

Spanish incumbent bank BBVA launched a hostile takeover bid on Thursday to buy out rival Banco Sabadell.

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Corpay to buy Paymerang

Corporate payments company Corpay is set to buy account payable automation outfit Paymerang. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

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Cube RegTech rollup continues with acquisition of Reg-Room

Regulatory intelligence firm Cube has acquired US-based Reg-Room, the latest in a planned series of acquisitions to drive consolidation in the market for regulatory technology.

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Fime acquired by Gallant Capital

Private equity firm Gallant Capital Partners has acquired payments consultancy and testing specialist Fime as well as the UL Solutions payments testing business and merged the two. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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SVB Financial to sell VC business, SVB Capital

SVB Financial Group has announced that its venture capital business, SVB Capital, will be sold to an entity affiliated with Pinegrove Capital Partners.

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Permira to take majority stake in BioCatch

PE firm Permira is buying a majority position in BioCatch in a deal that values the Israeli behavioural biometrics company at $1.3 billion.

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ComplyAdvantage buys Golden to boost financial crime intelligence

AI-based financial crime detection startup ComplyAdvantage has acquired Golden Recursion in a deal that brings Andreessen Horowitz in as a shareholder.

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Goldman Sachs offloads Marcus robo-advisor customers to Betterment

Goldman Sachs continues its retreat from consumer banking, striking a deal to sell its Marcus Invest digital investing accounts to Betterment.

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Klarna sells virtual shopping business Hero

Klarna is selling Hero, the virtual shopping platform it acquired in 2021, to video commerce outfit Bambuser in a deal worth around EUR1.3 million.

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TokenEx and Ixopay to merge

Cloud tokenisation provider TokenEx has agreed a merger with payments orchestration platform Ixopay. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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CMA outlines competition concerns with AI Foundation Models

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified key risks to fair competition in AI Foundation Models (FMs), growing concerns as AI rapidly develops in the financial industry.

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EQT sells Rimes to Five Arrows

Data management provider to the asset management sector Rimes is being sold by investment firm EQT to Five Arrows. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Credit fintech Petal agrees sale to Empower

Empower Finance has agreed to buy US credit fintech Petal and closed the acquisition of Philippines-based Cashalo.

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London-listed Gresham to be bought by STG Partners

London-listed fintech Gresham Technologies has agreed to be bought out by a private equity firm in a cash deal worth £146.7 million.

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Tradeweb to pay $785m for investment tech firm ICD

Tradeweb Markets has struck a deal to buy investment technology firm Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD) for $785 million.

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SC Ventures and NEXT176 partner up to launch financial wealth platform

Standard Chartered’s investment ventures arm, SC Ventures has joined forced with building and investment arm of Pan-African financial services group Old Mutual, NEXT176, to roll out a financial wellness platform.

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Advent to acquire Nuvei in $6.3bn deal

Canadian payments firm Nuvei is set to go private after agreeing an acquisition deal with a private equity firm.

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Rakuten to merge fintech units

Japanese financial services conglomerate has announced plans to consolidate its various fintech divisions into a single unit.

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Paynetics buys 'impact' banking app Novus

Bulgarian embedded finance provider Paynetics is making an ESG play through the acquisition of UK 'impact neobank Novus. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Nationwide to acquire Virgin Money with extended Branch Promise

Nationwide Building Society has confirmed the offer of acquisition to Virgin Money UK, agreeing to the terms of a cash offer of £2.9 billion with Virgin Money’s Board.