Mergers and acquisitions

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Monitise acquires loyalty discount business Markco Media

Monitise has acquired discount network Markco Media for a total of up to £55 million as it bids to add retailer offers to its mobile money platform.

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Powa buys MPayMe in $75m deal

Digital commerce outfit Powa Technologies has acquired Hong Kong-based MPayMe in an all share deal it says is worth $75 million.

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SEB offloads card acquiring biz to Nordic Capital

Swedish bank SEB has agreed to sell its Euroline card acquiring business to PE firm Nordic Capital for SKr2.2 billion (around £198 million).

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MasterCard to buy India's ElectraCard Services

MasterCard has agreed to buy Indian payments processor ElectraCard Services (ECS) from Opus Software. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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Vantiv agrees $1.65bn Mercury Payment Systems acquisition

Payment processor Vantiv has agreed a $1.65 billion deal to buy Mercury Payment Systems from private equity firm Silver Lake Group.

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ICE buys Algo Technologies for Nyse overhaul - Bloomberg

IntercontinentalExchange has acquired Algo Technologies and will use the vendor's matching engine to boost the performance of the New York Stock Exchange, according to Bloomberg.

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MasterCard to buy Oz loyalty specialist Pinpoint

MasterCard has struck a deal to buy PinPoint, a provider of loyalty and rewards service to banks and merchants in Asia Pacific. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Twitter acquires social media sentiment tracker Gnip

Twitter has acquired Gnip a provider of aggregated social media content which is used by hedge funds, banks and signal providers to assess market sentiment and conduct analytics.

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Discover invests in loyalty rewards start-up Buzz Points

Discover Financial Services has invested in Buzz Points as part of a $19 million funding round for the loyalty rewards outfit.

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Bottomline to buy customer acquisition specialist Andera

Bottomline Technologies has struck a deal to buy customer acquisition software provider Andera in a cash and stock deal worth around $48 million.

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Estimize raises $1.2m; unveils crowdfunded M&A predictions platform

Estimize, a US start-up that pools members' forecasts for earnings results at listed companies, has raised $1.2 million in funding and launched a crowdsourced mergers and acquisitions predictions platform.

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Tungsten seeks approval for bank buy-out

Invoice financing roll-up Tungsten says it expects to take full control of the UK arm of First International Bank of Israel (Fibi) within the next two months, after formally submitting an application for change of control to the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

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Advent and Bain in talks to buy Nordic payments firm Nets - Reuters

Advent International and Bain Capital are in exclusive talks to buy Nordic payments company Nets for more than EUR2 billion, according to Reuters.

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Liquidnet moves into fixed income market through Vega-Chi acquisition

Institutional trading network Liquidnet is moving into the fixed income market through the acquisition of bond trading platform Vega-Chi. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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MTS agrees Bonds.com acquisition

London Stock Exchange-owned fixed income marketplace MTS has agreed to buy Bonds.com, a US-based platform for the electronic trading of corporate and emerging market bonds.

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Barclays Africa buys stake in South African P2P lender RainFin

Barclays Africa (formerly Asba) has acquired a 49% stake in South African peer-to-peer lending marketplace RainFin. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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MasterCard adds in-app payments to MasterPass; buys m-wallet firm C-Sam

MasterCard has added in-app payments to its MasterPass digital wallet as it bids to grab a slice of a fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry.

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BBVA buys Simple for $117m

US digital banking start-up Simple has sold out to Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) for $117 million in cash.

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Capital One takes stake in ClearXchange

Capital One has taken a stake in ClearXchange, the US bank-backed clearing house for person-to-person online payments transfer via mobile or e-mail.

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Deutsche Bourse acquires stake in fixed income platform Bondcube

Deutsche Börse has acquired a minority stake in fixed income liquidity discovery start-up Bondcube.