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News/Mergers and acquisitions
First Data is to acquire payment processor CardConnect for $750 million in cash.
30 May 2017
FIS is to sell a 60% stake in its global consultancy unit Capco to private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) for $477 million, retaining a minority 40% interest in the business.
24 May 2017
Euronext is to acquire a 90% stake in spot FX trading network FastMatch for an initial cash consideration of $153 million.
23 May 2017
KPMG is looking to cash in on the growing trend for bank/startup collaboration with the acquisition of fintech matchmaking platform Matchi.
10 May 2017
Stockholm-headquartered Cinnober has acquires UK-based market surveillance outfit Ancoa, which filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after failing to generate fresh funding.
ATM provider Cardtronics faces an in-depth UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into its multi-million pound acquisition of Canadian rival DirectCash Payments.
04 May 2017
BBVA's ongoing strategy to buy out promising fintech startups has moved ahead with the acquisition of Mexican B2B payments platform Openpay.
25 April 2017
HelloPay Group, the online payments platform used on South East Asian e-commerce platform Lazada, is to merge with Alibaba's Ant Financial and be rebranded into AliPay.
19 April 2017
Ant Financial has increased its bid to buy MoneyGram by 36%, to around $1.2 billion, in an effort to fight off competition from Euronet.
18 April 2017
A research paper has revealed a level of scepticism among Asia Pacific banks when it comes to joining forces with fintechs.
13 April 2017
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Mastercard's £700 million acquisition of Vocalink after the card giant promised to take steps to address the watchdog's concerns.
11 April 2017
UBS is selling its buyside risk and perfomance analytics toolbox UBS Delta and management and developer team to StatPro for £11 million.
07 April 2017
BNP Paribas is to acquire a 95% stake in Financière des Paiements Électroniques, which runs innovative French neo-banking startup Compte-Nickel.
04 April 2017
The European Commission has officially blocked the proposed mega-merger between the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse, citing competition concerns.
29 March 2017
Norwegian digital bank Skandiabanken has acquired a 39.9% stake in local AI and machine learning outfit Quantfolio as part of a push into the provision of robo advisory services for customers of its private savings division.
23 March 2017
Private equity group Warburg Pincus has acquired a 35% stake in Avaloq, valuing the Swiss core banking firm at CHF1 billion.
22 March 2017
Dutch online discount broker BinckBank has acquired robo-advisory startup Pritle for EUR12.5 million.
17 March 2017
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered Diebold Nixdorf to sell one of its customer-operated ATM businesses.
16 March 2017
US fintech giant First Data is strengthening its e-commerce hand through the acquisition of Atlanta-based Acculynk. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Euronet Worlwide is testing the financial firepower and resolve of Alibaba's Ant Financial unit by outbidding the Chinese behemoth's $13.25 per share offer for US money transfer business MoneyGram International.
14 March 2017
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