Latest Mergers and acquisitions News: Finextra Research

CSC moves into on-demand trading space with Fixnetix acquisition

Computer services group CSC is to make a concerted push into the provision of managed services for capital markets firms with the acquisition of London-based Fixnetix.

12 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Palamon Capital and Corsair Capital agree £200m Currencies Direct acquisition

Palamon Capital Partners, a pan-European growth investor, and Corsair Capital, a leading private equity investor in global financial services, today announced an agreement to jointly acquire control of Currencies Direct (“The Company”), a leading specialist provider of foreign exchange (“FX”) and international payment solutions to private and corporate clients.

11 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Optimal Payments completes Skrill Group acquisition for €1.1 billion

Optimal Payments today announced the completion of its acquisition of the Skrill Group, a leading provider of online payment and e-money solutions business and one of the largest prepaid online voucher providers in Europe.

11 August 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Envestnet to buy Yodlee

Wealth management technology provider Envestnet has agreed to buy fintech outfit Yodlee in a cash and stock deal with an enterprise value of around $590 million.

10 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Optimal Payments closes Skrill acquisition

Optimal Payments today announced the completion of its acquisition of the Skrill Group, a leading provider of online payment and e-money solutions business and one of the largest prepaid online voucher providers in Europe.

10 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Lightspeed Trading to acquire certain Livevol Securities assets

Lightspeed Trading and Livevol Securities announced today that they have reached an agreement for Lightspeed Trading to acquire certain brokerage assets of Livevol Securities.

10 August 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Silicon Valley Bank acquires startup team to build out API platform

Silicon Valley Bank has hired the team from startup company Standard Treasury to jump start its efforts to build an API-based banking platform.

06 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Dealogic acquires A2 Access LLC

Dealogic is pleased to announce it has completed the acquisition of A2 Access LLC.

05 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Nice Systems sells physical security business

Battery Ventures, a global technology investment firm, has reached an agreement to acquire the Physical Security Business Unit (PSBU), part of the security division of publicly listed Nice Systems, in a transaction valued at up to $100 million.

03 August 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Mexico's meXBT enters Asia through CoinRepublic acquisition

The Mexican leader exchange platform of digital currencies in Mexico, meXBT, announced the acquisition of the company owned and operated by CoinRepublic, the most establish and respected digital currency brokerage in the Republic of Singapore.

03 August 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Nasdaq OMX and Markit ponder Interactive Data acquisition - WSJ

Nasdaq OMX, Markit and private equity firms are all eyeing up a potential acquisition of Interactive Data in a deal that could be worth more than $5 billion, including debt, according to the Wall Street Journal.

31 July 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Fidelity National Information Services said to be in talks to buy SunGard

Shares in Fidelity National Information Services have climbed on speculation that the payment services group is in talks to buy financial technology conglomerate SunGard.

31 July 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Payments and capital markets sectors dominate fintech M&A activity

There were 192 fintech mergers and acquisitions worth a total of $18.9 billion in the first half of 2015, according to research from investment bank Berkery Noyes.

29 July 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Swisscom makes investment in Cognia

Cognia, the leading global provider of cloud PCI payment solutions for telephone-based transactions, today announces its latest investment from Swisscom Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Switzerland's largest telecommunications provider.

27 July 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

McGraw Hill to acquire SNL Financial

McGraw Hill Financial has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SNL Financial for approximately $2.225 billion in cash.

27 July 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Deutsche Bourse makes move on currency markets with 360T acquisition

Deutsche Bourse is wading into the $5.3 trillion a day currency markets with a EUR725 million acquisition of multi-bank FX trading platform 360T.

27 July 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Visa confirms Visa Europe acquisition talks

Visa has confirmed that it is in talks about buying back its former subsidiary Visa Europe, with a decision on whether to complete a deal expected by October.

23 July 2015

News/Mergers and acquisitions

Japan's Nikkei pays £844m for FT Group

Japanese media giant Nikkei has struck a deal to buy the Financial Times Group from publisher Pearson for £844 million in cash.

23 July 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

Ipreo buys iLevel

Ipreo, a global leader of data, market intelligence and productivity solutions to capital markets and corporate professionals, today announced the acquisition of iLevel, a leading portfolio monitoring, analytics and transparency platform for global private capital markets.

23 July 2015

Company update/Mergers and acquisitions

ApexPeak buys Dutch supply chain finance outfit ASYX

ApexPeak, a Singapore-headquartered FinTech company, has acquired Netherlands-based ASYX, one of the world’s foremost Supply Chain Finance and Collaboration solutions providers.

21 July 2015