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News/Mergers and acquisitions
Swipe-to-mobile outfit Square has acquired New York-based Web design agency 80/20.
01 October 2012
Irish capital markets tech house First Derivatives has acquired three London-based businesses for a total consideration of up to £3.15 million as it looks to expand its managed services business.
28 September 2012
ANZ is to cut 200 back office IT jobs in New Zealand as it initiates a full-scale integration with The National Bank subsidiary it acquired from the UK's Lloyds Banking Group almost ten years ago.
26 September 2012
Plus Markets has agreed to sell its derivatives exchange to Pipeline Capital, a new company set up by former staffer Clive Connors.
20 September 2012
Core banking vendor Temenos has signed a definitive agreement to buy edge IPK, a provider of user experience platform (UXP) software to the financial services industry. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
ACI Worldwide agreed a $48.7 million all-cash takeover of Distra, an Australian-based company that provides technology to help update bank legacy payments architectures and adapt to new modes of payment.
14 September 2012
The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed plans to offload its Direct Line insurance business in an initial public offering that analysts suggest could be worth £3 billion.
Italy's SIA has struck a deal to buy Atos Worldline's 49% stake in Sinsys, giving it full ownership of the Belgian card payments processing company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
07 September 2012
MasterCard has acquired Truaxis, a US firm that provides credit and debit card-linked offers to consumers through merchants and banks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Bottomline Technologies of the US is to acquire UK Bacs processing firm Albany Software.
04 September 2012
Dutch bank ING has struck a C$3.1 billion deal to sell its online Canadian unit to Scotiabank, raising cash to pay back money lent by the Dutch government at the height of the financial crisis.
30 August 2012
LCH.Clearnet has reinforced its commitment to the US marketplace by acquiring sole ownership of International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG) from Nasdaq OMX and other minority investors.
15 August 2012
Nets, the payments company owned by Danish and Norwegian banks, has agreed to acquire Luottokunta, the leading card payment service provider in Finland.
14 August 2012
Thomson Reuters has filed an application to settle a class action lawsuit over its proposed acquisition of multi-bank foreign exchange portal FXall and extended its $616 million tender offer by three days.
ING is weighing up the sale of its online banks in the UK and Canada as it looks to raise cash to pay back money lent by the Dutch government at the height of the financial crisis.
03 August 2012
Thomson Reuters says its financial and risk business continued to suffer in the second quarter thanks to "growing headwinds" in the FS sector.
01 August 2012
TS-Associates has acquired the assets of latency management service provider Correlix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
30 July 2012
The Singapore Stock Exchange has denied rumours that it is engaged in merger talks with the London Stock Exchange.
20 July 2012
PayPal has acquired card.io, the San Francisco-based startup that provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone.
18 July 2012
US tech firm Wolters Kluwer is extending its interest in the financial risk and reporting arena with the acquisition of Belgium's FinArch.
16 July 2012
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