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News/Mergers and acquisitions
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.
26 June 2014
Digital commerce outfit Powa Technologies has acquired Hong Kong-based MPayMe in an all share deal it says is worth $75 million.
12 June 2014
Swedish bank SEB has agreed to sell its Euroline card acquiring business to PE firm Nordic Capital for SKr2.2 billion (around £198 million).
30 May 2014
MasterCard has agreed to buy Indian payments processor ElectraCard Services (ECS) from Opus Software. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
19 May 2014
Payment processor Vantiv has agreed a $1.65 billion deal to buy Mercury Payment Systems from private equity firm Silver Lake Group.
13 May 2014
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.
23 April 2014
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.
17 April 2014
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.
16 April 2014
Discover Financial Services has invested in Buzz Points as part of a $19 million funding round for the loyalty rewards outfit.
02 April 2014
Bottomline Technologies has struck a deal to buy customer acquisition software provider Andera in a cash and stock deal worth around $48 million.
01 April 2014
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.
27 March 2014
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.
25 March 2014
Advent International and Bain Capital are in exclusive talks to buy Nordic payments company Nets for more than EUR2 billion, according to Reuters.
18 March 2014
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.
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.
06 March 2014
Barclays Africa (formerly Asba) has acquired a 49% stake in South African peer-to-peer lending marketplace RainFin. Financial terms were not disclosed.
05 March 2014
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.
24 February 2014
US digital banking start-up Simple has sold out to Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) for $117 million in cash.
20 February 2014
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.
19 February 2014
Deutsche Börse has acquired a minority stake in fixed income liquidity discovery start-up Bondcube.
12 February 2014
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