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News/Mergers and acquisitions
JPMorgan Chase has bought daily deals startup Bloomspot in a move aimed at winning cardholder loyalty by offering discounts on shopping at local stores.
21 December 2012
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed an $8.2 billion deal to acquire Nyse Euronext in a stock-and-cash transaction.
20 December 2012
Russia's Sberbank is to spend $60 million for a majority stake in Yandex.Money, the online payment business of Russian search engine Yandex.
19 December 2012
Getco has emerged as the winner in a two-way bidding war to take over Knight Capital, beating out rival Virtu with an improved £1.2 billion cash and shares offer.
Nasdaq OMX has acquired a 25% stake in Dutch MTF The Order Machine (TOM) as it bids to build up its European equity derivatives business.
11 December 2012
Jacob Rothschild's investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, has acquired a stake in peer-to-peer lender Zopa. Financial details of the deal have not been revealed.
10 December 2012
UK mobile banking outfit Monitise has kicked off a £100 million share placement as the company provides news of two acquisitions and warns of further delays in its quest to hit break-even.
04 December 2012
Financial services consultancy Greenwich Associates is to acquire retail finance research house Javelin Strategy & Research.
03 December 2012
British payday lender Wonga is in talks to buy On Deck Capital, a US provider of loans to small businesses, for up to $250 million, according to Bloomberg.
30 November 2012
Deutsche Bank is to sell its European merchant acquiring business to US processor EVO Payments International.
High Frequency trading firm Getco has made a $3.50 a share offer for Knight Capital Group, which it helped rescue from bankruptcy over the summer.
28 November 2012
The management of Swedish agency broker and systems supplier Neonet has teamed up with Hay Tor Capital and Kas Bank to buy the business from Nordic Capital.
16 November 2012
Fixed income exchange MarketAxess has agreed to acquire European post-trade services group Xtrakter from Euroclear for £26 million in cash.
02 November 2012
American technology vendor Diebold has acquired Turkish ATM services specialist Altus. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 October 2012
EnStream, the Canadian mobile-commerce joint venture created by Bell, Rogers and Telus, has offloaded its Zoompass mobile money service to pre-paid and virtual card management outfit Paymobile.
17 October 2012
Oslo Børs is to take over the operations of rival Swedish exchange Burgundy as it bids to raise its market share in the Nordics and challenge Nasdaq OMX for regional dominance.
16 October 2012
Barclays is set to take over the UK online banking operations of ING in a deal that will leave the Dutch outfit with a EUR320 million post-tax loss.
09 October 2012
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
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