Walmart buys $16bn share in Flipkart
Becomes largest shareholder in Indian e-commerce marketplace.
Mergers & Acquisitions/M&A
Virgin Money gets £1.6bn takeover offer from CYBG
Combined entity will have six million personal and business customers.
New holding company Syncapay looks for paytech acquisitions
Syncapay’s vision is to build a powerhouse portfolio of disruptor payment solutions.
IBM acquires data tech firm Armanta
Armanta will be integrated into IBM’s Watson Financial Services portfolio.
Acorns Australia rebrands as Raiz Invest; Westpac and Assembly Payments team up
Acorns Australia, an app that uses small change to invest, has rebranded as Raiz Invest.
Bank of Jordan puts core banking tech in Oracle cloud
First bank in the Middle East to deploy its core tech in Oracle cloud.
SME lender Kabbage to acquire fellow lendtech Orchard
Small business lender Kabbage is rumoured to be acquiring lending platform Orchard Platform Markets.
Diamond Bank sells UK subsidiary to industrialist Sanjeev Gupta
To be renamed as British Commonwealth Trade Bank (BCTB).
Avaloq takes 10% stake in blockchain firm Metaco
Core banking software vendor Avaloq muscles into blockchain space.
TransUnion to acquire Callcredit for $1.4bn
TransUnion to buy UK’s second-largest consumer credit bureau, Callcredit.
Sella Open Fintech Platform to buy Vipera for $34m
Mobile financial services company Vipera to be acquired by Sella Open Fintech Platform (SOFP).
Equinix acquires Australian data centre provider Metronode
Provides a presence in four new cities Down Under.
Coinbase acquires Earn, appoints first CTO
The deal is valued at $100 million.
Goldman Sachs acquires personal finance app Clarity Money
Brings over one million customers to its online lending platform Marcus.
Paysafe to purchase iPayment
You can probably guess it’s to do with payments.
Francisco Partners to buy Verifone for $3.4bn
If you’re going to Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
Last minute bids interrupt Temenos’ £1.4bn purchase of Fidessa
UPDATE – Fidessa now names the two gatecrashers, ION Trading and SSC.
BNP Paribas takes over Janus Henderson’s US middle and back office ops
Transaction sees French bank get more action in the States.
RBS acquires FreeAgent
The deal values cloud accounting firm FreeAgent at $75 million (£53 million).
Broadridge acquires Israeli digital tech firm ActivePath
To strengthen its governance and communications businesses.
Equistone to acquire payments provider Small World
Private equity investor will buy a majority stake.
Amex buys UK payments start-up Cake for $13.3m
Cake Technologies provides app to pay restaurant bills in London.
Finantix acquires Asian wealthtech start-up Smartfolios
Deal brings in quant-enabled investment tools for digital wealth management.
Experian buys credit checking start-up ClearScore for $385m
On completion, ClearScore will be included within Experian’s UK Consumer Services.
Tandem acquires money management app Pariti
UK-based challenger bank Tandem is buying Pariti, a money management app with 95,000 users.
Ant Financial invests $184.5m in Telenor Microfinance Bank
Ant Financial now owns a 45% stake in Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank (TNB).
Standard Bank sells mobile paytech Oltio to Mastercard
Mastercard has acquired Oltio, a mobile paytech firm in South Africa.
Top fintech stories this week – 2 March 2018
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ANZ seeks innovation throne with Data Republic
Bank takes an equity stake in local start-up to boost its data innovation ambitions.
Bazaarvoice acquires e-commerce app provider AddStructure
Addstructure offers search and discovery apps for e-commerce merchants.
Circle buys Poloniex to expand cryptocurrency services
Acquires a rival of Coinbase and Kraken to spice up cryptocurrency arena.
Vermeg buys regtech firm Lombard Risk for £52m
Vermeg takes over risk management and regtech firm Lombard Risk.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 February 2018
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Temenos buys trading platform provider Fidessa for £1.4bn
Deal now confirmed from yesterday’s (20 February) report.
Top fintech stories this week – 16 February 2018
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Fintech start-ups acquired by banks – CB Insights
2017 saw more acquisitions by top US banks than any other year.
Visa buys payments firm Fraedom
Fraedom has been a Visa partner for nearly ten years.
Top fintech stories this week – 9 February 2018
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Warburg Pincus buys majority stake in Fiserv lending business for $395m
Warburg Pincus is busy again with the acquisition of a 55% share.
