Worldline is buying solutions provider Ingenico for $8.6 billion
Worldline, a processor and payments solution provider, announced plans to acquire Ingenico, a fellow solutions provider that is...
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Autenti unites polish banks in a joint investment of £3.4M :)
Polish banks band together to invest in digital signature fintech Autenti! Alior Bank, BNP Paribas and PKO Bank Polski – banks...
M&A&Is in Fintech - January
New year, new deals. And I have to admit - it kicked off quite heavily! Big players, big number, big names! #Tencent, #Visa, #Google,...
Visa just spend $5.3B to acquire Plaid! (Plaid had ar. $150M revenue last year hmmm)
Visa just spent $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid, the fintech company with an API that enables services for Venmo and other banking apps....
PayU buys PaySense (ok, majority stake not whole company :))
My beloved (<3) PayU is acquiring a majority equity stake in PaySense, at a valuation of $185 million, with the intention of merging it...
Ripple raises $200M Series C to boost XRP adoption
Ripple has raised a whopping $200 million in Series C funding. The round was led by investment firm Tetragon, with participation from...
$360M for Interswitch! Big news for the whole continent <3
Recently I published summary of African FinTech investments in last 3 quarters. And.. 4th quarter will double the size of investments in...
PayPal just confirmed its biggest acquisition ever - $4B honey, honey, honey.. :D
PayPal has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4...
Rapyd Raises $100M
Rapyd, a London-based startup that bills itself as a “fintech as a service” provider, has picked up $100 million, money it will use to...
Bnext to Launch in Latin America with $25M Series A
Bnext Inc., a startup neobank based in Madrid, said it raised $25 million in Series A funds to expand its digital banking business in...
PayPal Among Investors In $143M Funding For Japan’s Paidy
Japan’s instant credit startup Paidy raised $143 million in a Series C extension funding round, the company announced in a press release...
Google is after FitBit
Not exactly payment company but couldn't miss it! Alphabet parent Google has offered (or plans to offer) to buy FitBit. The fitness...
Softbank pumps £510m into finance firm Greensill that could kill off payday lenders thanks to FreeUp
Softbank’s Vision Fund has invested an additional $655m in Greensill Capital as the supply chain finance provider reveals it has acquired...
Starling Bank has raised £30m as part of an effort to ramp up its expansion into Europe.
The British fintech Starling Bank, which claims to be on track to reach 1m accounts by the end of this year, has been tapping up fresh...
M&A&Is in FinTech - September 2019
Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence to expand its data library. More. DappRadar raises $2.33M seed round led by Naspers Ventures. More....
Tide secures £44.1m in 'one of the largest ever' fintech series B funding rounds
Fintech company Tide has raised £44.1m in its first round of Series B equity funding in a bid to increase its business banking market...
BitGo Acquires Hedge, Unveils Cryptocurrency Staking
The leading digital asset financial services provider, BitGo, has acquired a startup company called Hedge, which operates in the staking...
Rapyd raises $100M for its ‘fintech as a service’ API, now valued at nearly a $1B valuation!
The digital payments market is forecast to balloon to $3 trillion by 2023, and today a startup that lets businesses implement not just...
PayPal granted Chinese payments licence as a first foreign company!
This is huge! PayPal has become the first foreign company to acquire a payments licence in China, after buying a majority stake in a...
Kreditech targets India after EUR20m funding boost
News close to my heart since had a pleasure to work in that company <3. Kreditech, a German-based online lender and POS financing...