Contis gets UK consumer credit licence with Paze acquisition
Also gets a consumer lending system with AI analytics.
Mergers & Acquisitions/M&A
Rakuten acquires crypto exchange Everybody’s Bitcoin for $2.4m
Japanese e-commerce firm might get everybody talking.
UBS to sell robo-advisor SmartWealth to SigFig
Swiss bank already has an equity stake in SigFig.
Latvian entrepreneurs buy Colorado National Bank for $9m
Co-owners of payments firm to profit from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Shoeboxed acquired by Earth Class Mail
Receipt and business card digitisation firm unboxes some major news.
Flipkart vies for voice-powered shopping with Liv.ai acquisition
Indian e-commerce firm thinks voice will become a preferred interface.
Cloud finance platform Consero gets $50m investment
Boston-based BV Investment Partners invests in Texan firm.
Get your patents IN: India – the next hotbed of fintech innovation
Indian fintech is a top five market globally by value of capital funding and investments.
Credit Karma acquires US lendtech Approved
Making mobile mortgages happen in San Francisco and San Diego.
Coinbase acquires Distributed Systems for digital identity dream
Anonymity and privacy. Even when it comes to financial details.
Diebold Nixdorf looks for buyers
ATM services firm hires Credit Suisse and Evercore to help with potential sale.
Intapp acquires DealCloud for CRM quest
Intapp also targeting capital markets sector.
Q2 to acquire Cloud Lending Solutions
Digital banking solutions provider loves the lending look.
US Bank to sell card processor Elan
EXCLUSIVE. Finastra, FIS and Fiserv believed to be in final bid.
CurrencyFair to buy Convoy Payments for Asia advance
All part of a €20 million investment plan.
Paytm acquires savings start-up Balance Technology
Where will it find space for the six-member team?
SoftBank mulls stake in insurtech wefox
Bank’s Vision Fund on the prowl again.
DocuSign to acquire CLM software provider SpringCM for $220m
All part of its plan to modernise companies’ systems of agreement.
Barclays takes stake in SME lender MarketInvoice
First high street bank to enter into a partnership with the fintech firm.
Xero buys paperless accounting hero Hubdoc
“Business has never been so beautiful.” Awww. Pass the sick bag.
SS&C to acquire wealthtech Eze Software for $1.45bn
Boston-based Eze is a provider of investment management solutions.
Entrust Datacard acquires SMS Passcode
Entrust hopes to further establish itself in the authentication space.
UK leads the way with record $16bn fintech investment
KPMG report highlights state of affairs in UK and Europe.
Bank Leumi to sell card business to Warburg Pincus for $682m
Warburg Pincus opens its fintech warchest yet again.
TransferMate finds €21m investment mate in ING
They want more SME customers and corporate clients.
GMEX takes gold-coated stake in Usave Blockchain
All part of a plan to build a digital exchange for physical gold.
City of London Group to acquire Acorn to Oaks for £1.4m
A2O focuses on SME and insurance products.
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk and Blackstone create Refinitiv
Will be a standalone company. And should lead to shorter headlines.
Powerful PayPal parades financial prowess
Revenue, income and payment volumes are all up.
Five Degrees buys Icelandic core banking provider Libra
Dutch firm seeks boost to its digital banking ambitions.
LaSalle Capital gets perfect payments present with National Gift Card acquisition
Chicago-based private equity firm grabs some payments action.
Investors in fintech provider FNZ plan £2bn sale
Duo want to offload stakes in New Zealand-based tech firm.
Atos to acquire digital dynamo Syntel for $3.4bn
Syntel provides cloud, social media, mobile, analytics and IoT solutions.
PayU acquires ZOOZ to build cross-border payment platform
With aims to expand to high-growth markets.
State Street to buy Charles River Systems for $2.6bn
Will acquire US investment management front office solutions provider.
JLT buys saving and investment service Moola
UK-based JLT Employee Benefits looks to digital benefits.
EY buys into blockchain for an Elevated Consciousness
Buys US start-up’s crypto-asset accounting and tax functions.
FundAmerica acquired by Prime Trust
Blockchain-driven trust firm buys crowdfunding regtech company.
Allianz completes Ensure Insurance acquisition in Nigeria
All part of its plan for long-term growth in Africa.
Euroclear takes stake in fixed income tech provider Algomi
Algomi focuses on banks, institutional investors, inter-dealer brokers and exchanges.
