Mergers and acquisitions

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German startups figo and finreach to merge

German banking-as-a-service supplier finreach and banking API compatriot figo are to merge their operations to create a one-size fits all suite of products for companies entering the financial services space.

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Nasdaq sweetens bid for Oslo Bourse

Nasdaq has raised its offer price for Oslo Bourse to $789 million, matching a rival bid from Euronext.

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ACI Worldwide acquires bill payment firm Speedpay for $750 million

ACI Worldwide has acquired Western Union's US bill pay business Speedpay for $750 million in an all-cash transaction.

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Experian abandons proposed takeover of ClearScore

Experian has canned its proposed £275 million acquisition of rival credit referencing firm ClearScore in the wake of resistance to the deal from competition regulators.

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Heidelpay continues on acquisition trail with Alpha-Cash takeover

Germanic payments service provider heidelpay has acquired point-of-sale terminal supplier Alpha-Cash, its sixth acquisition since private equity firm AnaCap bought a controlling stake in the firm in 2017.

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ASX offloads 18.6% stake in Iress

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is selling its 18.6% stake in trading technology vendor Iress for approximately A$385 million.

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HKEX to buy majority stake in Shenzhen-based fintech firm

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in a Shenzhen-based financial markets technology firm. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Ant Financial seals WorldFirst takeover

Ant Financial has confirmed its agreement to acquire UK-based currency transfer operator WorldFirst.

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Ellie Mae goes under the hammer for $3.7 billion

Mortgage finance software house Ellie Mae is to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.7 billion.

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Nasdaq sells GRC unit BWise to SAI Global

Nasdaq has agreed to sell its enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software platform BWise to SAI Global. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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ACI acquires tech assets for omnichannel payments offering

ACI Worldwide has bought technology assets from RevChip and TranSend to boost its UP Merchant Payments offering with new cloud-based, omni-channel in-store capabilities.

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Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $900m for employee stock plan manager

Morgan Stanley has struck a $900 million cash deal to buy Solium Capital, a Canadian provider of cloud-enabled share plan administration services.

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Euronext raises offer for Oslo Bourse

Euronext has upped its offer for Oslo Bourse to $785.7 million in an effort to beat off Nasdaq's competitive $770 takeover bid for the Nordic exchange.

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Visa fends of Mastercard with new offer for Earthport

Visa has raised its takeover offer for cross-border payments outfit Earthport, beating off a rival bid from Mastercard

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Top Image Systems board recommends Kofax takeover offer

The board of Top Image Systems is recommending a cash takeover offer from Kofax that will see shareholders receive a hefty premium over the content processing firm’s share price.

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Euronext goes head-to-head with Nasdaq in fight for Oslo Bourse

Euronext has reaffirmed its commitment to a takeover of Oslo Bourse despite a decision by the Nordic exchange's board last week in favour of a higher bid from Nasdaq.

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WorldFirst shutters US operation to save Ant Financial deal

UK money transfer firm WorldFirst has shuttered its US operations to ward off any regulatory objections to a proposed take over by Ant Financial

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Raiffeisen buys out Avaloq from JV following IT platform rollout

Following the completion of a major project that saw hundreds of sites moved to a new core platform, Raiffeisen Switzerland has decided to buy out its partner in the project, fintech firm Avaloq.

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Nasdaq wades into bidding war over Oslo Bourse

Oslo Bourse has recommended a $770 million takeover from Nasdaq, usurping a previous bid by Euronext.

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AIB eyes EUR100m Payzone acquisition

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) is in exclusive talks to buy local payments outfit Payzone in a deal that could be worth EUR100 million, according to the Sunday Times.