Mergers and acquisitions

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Broadridge buys compliance and surveillance assets from Jordan & Jordan

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced that it is further enhancing its regulatory compliance capabilities for broker-dealers with the acquisition of the cloud-based Execution Compliance and Surveillance Service (ECS) assets from Jordan & Jordan.

/payments

Rapyd to acquire Iceland's Valitor for $100 million

Payments-as-a-service platform Rapyd has agreed a deal to acquire Icelandic payments company Valitor from Arion Bank for $100 million

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Wordline splashes €180m for majority stake in BNL merchant acquiring arm

Worldline has signed a binding agreement for the acquisition of 80% of Axepta Italy, the merchant acquiring arm of BNL banking group.

/identity

IDnow and Ariadnext to merge

IDnow, a German-based leader in identity verification-as-a-service solutions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire ARIADNEXT, a French company specializing in remote identity verification and digital identity creation.

/payments

Nordic mobile wallets Vipps, MobilePay and Pivo to merge

Nordic mobile wallets MobilePay, Pivo and Vipps are joining forces to create a single payments app with a combined user base of 11 million consumers across Finland, Denmark and Norway.

/sustainable

JPMorgan to acquire OpenInvest

JPMorgan has agreed to acquire OpenInvest, a provider of ESG tools for the wealth management industry.

/retail

JPMorgan Chase takes 40% stake in Brazilian digital bank C6

JPMorgan Chase has taken a 40% stake in Brazilian digital bank C6, marking its retail banking debut in one Latin America's most hotly contested markets.

/crypto

Deutsche Börse acquires majority stake in Crypto Finance AG

Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a majority stake in Crypto Finance AG, a financial group under consolidated Finma supervision that offers trading, storage, and investment in digital assets to institutional and professional clients.

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Cross River Bank acquires data and analytics firm PeerIQ

CRB Group, Inc., the parent company of Cross River Bank (“Cross River”), a technology-driven financial services organization that provides core infrastructure and embedded financial solutions, today announced that as of the first quarter of 2021, it has wholly acquired Synthetic P2P Holdings Corporation d/b/a PeerIQ (“PeerIQ”), a preeminent data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, assess and manage risk in the lending sector, as an affiliate of the New Jersey state-chartered FDIC-insured bank.

/retail

Raisin merges with local rival Deposit Solutions

German fintech companies Raisin and Deposit Solutions are merging to form a new giant in the B2C savings market.

/cloud

Symphony buys voice trading tech supplier Cloud9

Financial communication platform Symphony has acquired New York-based voice trading software supplier Cloud9 Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.

/sustainable

Pole Star acquires Vasanda to strengthen sustainability agenda in commodity transactions

Pole Star, the global leader in vessel-tracking, sanctions screening and regulatory technology, has strengthened its sustainability screening offering by acquiring a controlling stake in Vasanda, a London-based startup in sustainability risk screening using real-time, empirical impact data.

/security

Riverside acquires controlling stake in Crypomathic

The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has acquired a controlling stake in Cryptomathic, a leading Danish provider of high-end hardware agnostic secure server solutions to a wide range of industry sectors, including banking, government, technology manufacturing, cloud and mobile.

/retail

Stash expands into children's financial literacy by acquiring PayGrade

Stash, the subscription platform empowering middle-class America to build wealth through a suite of investing and banking products, today announced the acquisition of PayGrade, a financial literacy platform helping students build healthy financial habits.

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Visa to acquire Tink for €1.8 billion

Visa is to acquire European Open Banking platform Tink for €1.8 billion, filling a Plaid-shaped hole in its portfolio after a $5.4 billion deal to acquire the US data sharing outfit was scapped following pushback from regulators.

/wealth

Foreside acquires Hardin Compliance Consulting

Foreside Financial Group, LLC (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, today announced it acquired Hardin Compliance Consulting, LLC.

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Gresham Technologies completes $38.6m acquisition of Electra Information Systems

Gresham Technologies plc (Gresham), a global fintech that specialises in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management, today announced the closing of its acquisition of Electra Information Systems, Inc. (Electra).

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Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems acquires Clique Payments

Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV, Corp. (APPS), a fintech holding company providing technology and financial services solutions, has acquired cloud-based software company Clique Payments, Inc.

/wealth

Clearlake Capital to buy Confluence Technologies

Confluence Technologies, Inc., (“Confluence” or the “Company”), a global software and data solutions provider helping the investment management industry solve complex data challenges, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement for Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) to acquire the Company from TA Associates (“TA”).

/retail

ING puts French retail bank on the chopping block

ING announced today that it is conducting a strategic review of its Retail Banking business in France.