Mergers and acquisitions

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Deutsche Börse makes €3.9bn bid for SimCorp

Deutsche Börse has made a €3.9 billion bid to takeover Danish financial sodtware house SimCorp.

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Founders Forum Group acquires Tech Nation

Entrepreneurial network Founders Forum Group has acquired Tech Nation, rescuing the quango from oblivion after a decade of championing UK startups.

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Network International in talks over £2 billion bid

Dubai-based Network International is in discussion with a consortium led by CVC Capital Parters over a £2 billion take-over bid.

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HSBC hires ex-SVB bankers to focus on US ‘innovation economy’

Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March, HSBC is now hiring around 40 ex-SVB bankers to establish a new unit targeting tech, healthcare, and VC funds in the US.

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FinFit and Salary Finance US merge

FinFit is merging with Salary Finance US, a fintech focused on salary-linked savings and loans for employees, creating a workplace financial platform serving over 10 million US workers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Tandem acquires money sharing app co-founded by chairman Paul Pester

Tandem Bank has acquired Loop, a money sharing app co-founded by the bank's chairman Paul Pester.

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Lunar bails out of P2P market

Denmark's Lunar bank is to offload its P2P business to Swedish investment platform SaveLend Group.

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Acorns buys GoHenry

American savings and investment app Acorns has acquired British kids' money management company GoHenry. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PhonePe backs out of ZestMoney acquisition - report

Walmart-backed Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe has ditched a planned acquisition of BNPL player ZestMoney over due diligence concerns, according to the Economic Times.

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Mastercard and Visa eye $1bn deal for Brazil's Pismo - Bloomberg

Mastercard and Visa are among the suitors in talks to buy Brazilian cloud-native core banking and payments platform Pismo for around $1 billion, according to Bloomberg.

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Ingenico acquires SoftPOS vendor Phos

Ingenico has acquired SoftPOS vendor Phos for an undisclosed sum.

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Equals Group expands into Europe through Oonex acquisition

Equals Group, a UK fintech payments outfit focused on the SME marketplace, is moving into Europe through the £4.1 million acquisition of Belgium-based Oonex.

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MangoPay acquires WhenThen

MangoPay, a European payment technology provider for marketplaces and platforms, has acquired Dublin-based payments technology company WhenThen.

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JP Morgan to buy investment analytics player Aumni

JP Morgan has struck a deal to buy Aumni, an investment analytics platform that provides the data infrastructure for private capital markets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Mastercard acquires Swedish cyber-security firm Baffin Bay

Mastercard has acquired Swedish cybersecurity firm Baffin Bay as part of plans to build a multi-layered protective shield for customers across the world

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French payments firms Synalcom and Qori merge

French payments firm Synalcom and Qori are merging to form a new company, called Sylq, that promise to offer an all-in-one merchant payments platform.

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Bloomberg agrees Broadway acquisition

Bloomberg has agreed to buy Broadway Technology, a provider of front-office tech to the sell-side. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Railsr agrees rescue sale to investors

Embedded banking platform Railsr has been saved from collapse after agreeing a sale to a consortium of investors led by D Square Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Sydney-based ColCap acquires UK digital mortgage lender Molo

Australia's ColCap has entered the UK mortgage market after acquiring an 80% majority stake in digital lender Molo.

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Weavr acquires Comma to combine embedded and open banking

Weavr, the London-based startup that allows businesses to embed banking and payments into their mobile app or SaaS platforms, has acquired B2B Open Banking platform, Comma Payments.