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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.

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Misys acquires IND Group

Misys has acquired Hungary-based IND Group, a supplier of online and mobile banking and personal financial management tools to 30 banks worldwide.

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Monitise buys Turkish mobile money firm Pozitron Yazilim

Monitise has acquired Turkish mobile money outfit Pozitron Yazilim in an all share deal which could be worth up to £60 million.

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Sweden's Assa Abloy buys IdenTrust

Just months after buying IdenTrust, private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group have offloaded the digital identity authentication firm to Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Markit enters OMS arena with thinkFolio acquisition

Financial data outfit Markit is moving into the order management system (OMS) business with the acquisition of thinkFolio. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Payments start-ups raise $1.2 billion across 193 deals in 2013

A 16% decline in M&A and IPO activity in the payment space in 2013 was more than compensated for by a boom in early-stage investing, according to data from CB Insights, as a mix of VCs and corporate venture firms all continued to jockey for a piece of this massive industry.

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JPMorgan takes equity stake in Chi-X Global

JPMorgan has acquired an equity stake in exchange group Chi-X Global.