Mergers and acquisitions

1410 articles tagged with this keyword

All articles with this keyword
Apply Cancel
Coinbase buys paid email startup Earn.com

/Mergers and acquisitions

Coinbase buys paid email startup Earn.com

Coinbase has acquired Earn.com, a startup that lets users earn bitcoin by replying to emails and completing tasks, in a deal rumoured to be worth more than $100 million. As part of the agreement, Earn.com CEO Balaji Srinivasan becomes Coinbase's first chief technology officer.

Goldman Sachs acquires PFM startup Clarity Money

/Mergers and acquisitions

Goldman Sachs acquires PFM startup Clarity Money

Goldman Sachs has acquired personal financial management startup Clarity Money, as it continues its march into the retail financial services.

UK Takeover Panel gives Fidessa suitors bid deadline

/Mergers and acquisitions

UK Takeover Panel gives Fidessa suitors bid deadline

The UK Takeover Panel has given Ion Investment Group and SS&C Technologies 10 days to put in a firm offer for Fidessa.

Verifone to be acquired for $3.4 billion

/Mergers and acquisitions

Verifone to be acquired for $3.4 billion

POS payments firm Verifone is to be acquired by private equity outfit Francisco Partners for $3.4 billion in cash.

Hacked Japanese crypto exchange sold for $34m

/Mergers and acquisitions

Hacked Japanese crypto exchange sold for $34m

Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange that made news in January when hackers stole $500m of customers' deposits, has been sold to Japanese retail broker Monex for $34m (3.6bn yen).

Fidessa names new bidders

/Mergers and acquisitions

Fidessa names new bidders

The last minute entrants into the bidding war for UK technology provider Fidessa have been named as financial technology firm Ion Investment Group and the US financial services group SS&C Technologies.

Temenos faces late competition for Fidessa

/Mergers and acquisitions

Temenos faces late competition for Fidessa

Trading technology supplier Fidessa has postponed a shareholder vote on whether to accept a £1.4 billion takeover offer from Temenos because two more potential bidders have indicated that they may enter the fray.

CME and NEX agree £3.9 billion deal to create trading powerhouse

/Mergers and acquisitions

CME and NEX agree £3.9 billion deal to create trading powerhouse

CME Group has reached agreement on a £3.9 billion take over of the UK's NEX Group, in a deal that promises to transform the world's currency and sovereign debt markets.

Silver Lake buys $500m stake in Credit Karma

/Mergers and acquisitions

Silver Lake buys $500m stake in Credit Karma

Private equity firm Silver Lake is buying a $500 million stake in personal finance technology outfit Credit Karma from existing investors.

RBS to acquire book-keeping software firm FreeAgent

/Mergers and acquisitions

RBS to acquire book-keeping software firm FreeAgent

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire UK accounting software vendor FreeAgent in a deal that values the firm at £53 million.

Payconiq to merge with Bancontact in Belgium

/Mergers and acquisitions

Payconiq to merge with Bancontact in Belgium

Payconiq, the mobile payments app supported by a host of Belgian and Dutch banks, is to merge with Bancontact, the Belgian market leader in electronic payments.

NEX Group confirms approach from CME

/Mergers and acquisitions

NEX Group confirms approach from CME

Icap financial technology spin off NEX Group has confirmed a preliminary takeover approach by Chicago futures exchange CME.

Nordic Capital buys majority stake in online payments firm Trustly

/Mergers and acquisitions

Nordic Capital buys majority stake in online payments firm Trustly

Private equity group Nordic Capital has struck a deal to acquire a majority stake in Swedish online payments provider Trustly. Financial terms were not disclosed, although the agreement is rumoured to value Trustly at around EUR700 million.

Tandem to buy personal finance app Pariti

/Mergers and acquisitions

Tandem to buy personal finance app Pariti

UK digital challenger bank Tandem has stepped up its aggregation game by agreeing to acquire personal finance app Pariti. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

Ant Financial enters Pakistan through Telenor deal

/Mergers and acquisitions

Ant Financial enters Pakistan through Telenor deal

China's Ant Financial has set its sights on Pakistan, agreeing to buy a 45% stake in a local mobile financial services outfit owned by Norwegian telco Telenor.

S&P Global agrees to buy AI startup Kensho

/Mergers and acquisitions

S&P Global agrees to buy AI startup Kensho

S&P Global has agreed a $550 million cash and stock deal to buy Kensho Technologies, a provider of analytics, AI, machine learning and data visualisation systems to Wall Street banks.

Mastercard acquires Oltio from Standard Bank

/Mergers and acquisitions

Mastercard acquires Oltio from Standard Bank

Furthering its ambitions to displace cash in emerging markets, Mastercard has acquired mobile payments technology company Oltio from South Africa's Standard Bank.

Temenos to create financial technology powerhouse as Fidessa agrees takeover

/Mergers and acquisitions

Temenos to create financial technology powerhouse as Fidessa agrees takeover

The boards of Temenos and Fidessa have reached an agreement on the terms of an all-cash takeover of the UK-based trading technology supplier in a transformational deal for the Swiss core banking vendor.

Temenos in talks over £1.4 billion deal for Fidessa

/Mergers and acquisitions

Temenos in talks over £1.4 billion deal for Fidessa

Swiss core banking provider Temenos is in advanced discussions regarding a possible all-cash £1.4 billion takeover of trading systems technology vendor Fidessa

Visa buys Fraedom to boost commercial offerings

/Mergers and acquisitions

Visa buys Fraedom to boost commercial offerings

Visa has agreed a £142 million deal to buy Fraedom, an SaaS technology firm that provides payments and transaction management tools to banks and their corporate customers.

Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.

Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept