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News/Mergers and acquisitions
Banco Santander is to pay £350 million to acquire a 50.1% majority stake in Ebury, a provider of corporate banking services to SMEs that trade internationally.
04 November 2019
US investment data management outfit Confluence has sealed a deal to buy UK portfolio analytics company StatPro for £161.1 million.
29 October 2019
2020 will see a development in the standards governing the flow of money to match the increased globalisation of payment processing, according to Deloitte.
28 October 2019
Payroc is to merge with Payscape, NXGEN and BluePay Canada with the aim of building a full-service global merchant acquiring and payment business.
News/inclusion
Fintech firms born and bred in Latin America have survived and thrived in markets in which political and economic uncertainty requires new players to be agile and flexible.
CYBG is to rebrand as Virgin Money at the end of the month, consigning the century-old Clydesdale Banking brand and Yorkshire Bank identity to the history books.
21 October 2019
BNP Paribas is to acquire a 22.5% stake in wealth mangement technology company Allfunds as part of an alliance to build a new fund distribution platform.
How can the established players in financial services deliver meaningful game-changing innovation? What are the challenges in building this from scratch and does the key lie in partnerships with fintechs and start-ups?
14 October 2019
News/retail
Vista Equity Partners could offload a 50% stake in $10 billion financial technology outfit Finastra, according to Bloomberg.
07 October 2019
News/payments
PayPal has become the first foreign firm to get an online payments license in China after buying a 70% stake in Guofubao Information Technology Co (GoPay).
30 September 2019
Poste Italiane and Allianz Asset Management have each acquired a minority stake in digital wealth management company Moneyfarm.
26 September 2019
The UK's Competition watchdog has slapped a £250,000 fine on PayPal for a breach of rules following its $2.2 billion acquisition of Swedish mPOS vendor iZettle.
24 September 2019
Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has acquired a 33% stake in banking behemoth Ant Financial, strengthening ties between the two Internet giants.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has launched a surprise £29.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange, concocting a deal that would scupper the LSE's proposed takeover of market data and analytics group Refinitiv.
11 September 2019
Norwegian savings bank Sparebanken Øst has bought a stake in a local cryptocurrency exchange founded by airline magnate Bjørn Kjos.
04 September 2019
News/cloud
Temenos has strengthened its hand in the US by agreeing to buy digital banking SaaS outfit Kony for $559 million and an earn-out of $21 million.
29 August 2019
Retail deposit marketplace Raisin has acquired fellow German startup fairr, a provider of investment products for retirement savings.
27 August 2019
Payments processing is the engine driving the financial technology venture market, with three mega-transactions accounting for $87 billion in deal value during the first half of 2019.
20 August 2019
News/wholesale
Coinbase has taken its assets under custody to $7 billion by buying the institutional business of Xapo for a reported $55 million.
16 August 2019
Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has agreed a $150 million deal to buy electronic US Treasuries marketplace LiquidityEdge.
13 August 2019
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