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News/Mergers and acquisitions
Mastercard has opened up a turf war with rival scheme Visa over the acquisition of cross-border payment firm Earthport, posting a £233 million cash offer for the UK firm.
25 January 2019
Cognizant is to acquire bank-owned Finnish IT supplier Oy Samlink as part of a programme to implement a shared core banking platform for three of the country's savings banks.
23 January 2019
News/payments
Private equity giant Advent International is buying a 51% stake in Argentinian payments firm Prisma Medios de Pago from a consortium of local banks and Visa International in a deal valuing the company at $1.42 billion.
22 January 2019
News/retail
Fiserv has struck a $22 billion, all-stock deal to buy First Data, creating a payments and fintech behemoth.
16 January 2019
Spanish bank BBVA may be preparing to add the UK's Atom Bank to its burgeoning portfolio of 100%-owned neo-banking startups.
15 January 2019
Euronext is pressing ahead with a EUR625 million takeover bid for Oslo Bors as the Scandinavian trading destination seeks to ignite a bidding war with alternative suitors waiting in the wings.
14 January 2019
The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.
11 January 2019
Icelandic digital banking tech startup Meniga has acquired Swedish rewards platform Wrapp in a bid to take on the likes of Google and Facebook in the European marketing arena. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Plaid, a US startup that links consumer bank accounts with fintech apps like Venmo and Coinbase, is widening its reach through the $200 million acquisition of Quovo, which delivers a similar service but with a focus on wealth management and brokerage data.
08 January 2019
European payments firms Nets and Concardis have finalised their merger which was first announced back in June 2018.
07 January 2019
Oslo Bourse is inviting rival bidders to a EUR625 million takeover offer tendered by Euronext on Christmas Eve last year.
04 January 2019
Alibaba's financial service brand Ant Financial is in advanced talks to buy UK currency transfer service WorldFirst, according to reports by Sky News.
02 January 2019
Nasdaq has raised its offer for Swedish trading tech firm Cinnober to $220 million, after failing to win over shareholders to its earlier valuation of $190 million.
18 December 2018
Santander Group has acquired Albert, an invoicing and expenses app for sole traders and micro-businesses.
Swiss core banking vendor Temenos has agreed to acquire digital customer acquisition outfit Avoka for $245 million in cash and debt.
12 December 2018
Private equity firm Motive Partners has acquired a majority stake in Finantix, which provides a bundled set of components and software development tools for financial firms beginning their digital transform journeys.
11 December 2018
Cuna Mutual Group has acquired Portland-based digital small business lending platform Mirador. Financial Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
06 December 2018
PayPal's refusal to address concerns raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority over its takeover of Sweden's iZettle have opened the door for a full-blown Phase 2 investigation by the watchdog.
05 December 2018
Nasdaq has acquired Quandl, a Toronto-based provider of alternative and core financial data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
04 December 2018
Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo has sold its majority stake in financial services technology firm SEC Servizi Spa to Accenture. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
03 December 2018
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