Latvian entrepreneurs buy Colorado National Bank for $9m
Co-owners of payments firm to profit from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Mergers & Acquisitions/M&A
Shoeboxed acquired by Earth Class Mail
Receipt and business card digitisation firm unboxes some major news.
Cloud finance platform Consero gets $50m investment
Boston-based BV Investment Partners invests in Texan firm.
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.
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.
DocuSign to acquire CLM software provider SpringCM for $220m
All part of its plan to modernise companies’ systems of agreement.
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.
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.
LaSalle Capital gets perfect payments present with National Gift Card acquisition
Chicago-based private equity firm grabs some payments action.
Atos to acquire digital dynamo Syntel for $3.4bn
Syntel provides cloud, social media, mobile, analytics and IoT solutions.
State Street to buy Charles River Systems for $2.6bn
Will acquire US investment management front office solutions provider.
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.
Equifax acquires alternative data provider DataX
DataX brand and employees integrated into Equifax’s Banking and Lending Division.
Central 1 and Agility Forex in FX-ing great partnership
Special FX for Central 1’s clients and credit union members in Canada.
Accuity safely acquires Safe Banking Systems
With SBS it gets KYC and AML solutions.
PayPal CEO commits to $3bn a year in M&A spending
Spending spree is not slowing down yet.
EQT to acquire Saxo Payments Banking Circle
Transaction is expected to close in Q4 2018.
Risk info provider TransUnion gets outstanding Iovation
Finalises its purchase of device intelligence company.
Ping Identity acquires Elastic Beam
Identity security solutions provider buys API cybersecurity company.
Finastra selling its collateral management branch to Teranet
The transaction will be completed by July 2018.
Stellar to acquire crypto firm Chain for $500m
Stellar is more interested in the developers rather than its technology.
PayPal gets anti-fraud ability with $120m acquisition of Simility
Buys fraud prevention and risk management platform.
Luxoft smashes it with Smashing Ideas acquisition
Smashing, lovely, super. Purchase bolsters digital research, strategy and design.
Hyperactive PayPal acquires Hyperwallet for $400m
Gives it more payment solutions to e-commerce platforms and marketplaces.
Finastra acquires banking app provider Malauzai
Deal strengthens its involvement in US retail and business banking sectors.
InvestCloud acquires rplan for $20m in asset management advance
Deal extends its direct-to-consumer (D2C) offering for asset managers.
Gift Card Impressions acquired by InComm
Prepaid products company InComm buys former competitor Gift Card Impressions (GCI).
Vasco rebrands as OneSpan, acquires Dealflo
Business solutions company Vasco is making a major pivot.
Temenos on M&A trail to grow US business
Anti-money laundering (AML), fraud and wealth management are the focus areas.
Mitek acquires AI firm A2iA for $49.7m
US-based digital identity verification company bolsters its capabilities.
Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines for conversational AI starter
Ambitions to make chatbots sound more human and less like robots.
Oracle buys US firm DataScience
Adds platform to its cloud for machine learning boost.
Capital One buys digital identity start-up Confyrm
“Scrappy little start-up” has made a difference.
