First and long-time investor Amerborgh sells a part of its stake in Ohpen to NPM Capital, that upon the transaction, will have a 35% stake in Ohpen. Amerborgh wanted to sell this stake to finance ongoing and future projects, like the arts and culture centre "het HEM" in Zaandam. Ohpen is a fast-growing Fintech company. The Ohpen SaaS, cloud native core banking platform administers retail investment and savings accounts for banks and other... more Read more »
Today, payments infrastructure company Stripe announced a series of updates to its product stack for businesses operating in Europe, and acquired a Dublin-based tech company called Touchtech Payments. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is coming Read more »
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500®Index, today announced it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire the retirement plan custody and trust assets from TD Ameritrade Trust Company, a subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Company (Nasdaq: AMTD). The acquisition will expand Broadridge’s suite of solutions for the growing qualified and non-qualified retirement plan services... more Read more »
Following the Post-Closing Acceptance Period, which ended yesterday, approximately 97.02% of Gemalto shares have now been tendered to the Thales offer Settlement of Shares tendered during the Post-Closing Acceptance Period will take place on 18 April 2019 Thales will initiate the statutory buy-out proceedings as soon as possible in order to obtain 100% of the Shares Thales and Gemalto will ask Euronext to delist the Gemalto Shares shortly after... more Read more »
Vision Blue, the leading provider of compliant software solutions for the Credit and Debt Recovery sectors, has acquired Cardiff-based fast growth fintech company SamePage Group, a pioneer in fully-digital Loan Origination software platforms, for an undisclosed sum. Read more »
Sopra Steria is to acquire fellow French core banking vendor SAB as part of a strategy to turn around its underperforming Banking Software division. Under the proposed transaction, Sopra Banking Software would initially acquire a majority stake in SAB and the remaining share capital in a year’s time. Read more »
PayU, an online payment service provider and Naspers’ fintech arm, today announced the acquisition of Wibmo, a Cupertino, CA-based industry leader in digital payment security and mobile payment technologies. This strategic acquisition combines PayU’s strong merchant network and Wibmo’s leadership in digital transaction security solutions to offer industry-leading payments solutions to merchants and financial institutions in India and other high... more Read more »
TBC Bank Group PLC of Georgia has entered into an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in LLC Inspired, a leading payment platform in Uzbekistan trading under the Payme brand. Payme is a leading payment service provider in Uzbekistan that supplies high-quality payment solutions to its 1.3 million customers. It facilitates utility payments, P2P transfers, loan repayments, mPOS for QR-based payments and ecommerce purchases. It also provides a... more Read more »
Sberbank, Gazprombank and Digital Horizon announce that Sberbank has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in Speech Technology Center (STC) from Gazprombank. Digital Horizon venture capital fund has also agreed to acquire a stake in STC. Gazprombank remains a strategic shareholder in STC and will continue to play an active role in the company’s future development. The deal is scheduled to close by the end of May 2019. Read more »
Nordic Capital Fund IX (“Nordic Capital”) today announced the acquisition of Signicat, a high-growth provider of digital identity and signature solutions that operates the leading digital identity hub in the market. Nordic Capital will, in close partnership with the company’s management and existing shareholder Viking Venture, accelerate Signicat’s international expansion and strengthen the company’s market leading position and unique product... more Read more »
Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Percentile, a provider of real-time, cloud-based risk and compliance technology to global financial markets. Read more »
Top Image Systems Ltd. (the “Company” or “Top Image Systems”) (NASDAQ:TISA) announced that, at an extraordinary general meeting held today, the shareholders of the Company voted overwhelmingly to approve the previously announced acquisition by Kofax. Read more »
CABIM Ltd, the parent company of Crown Agents Bank has announced that it is acquiring the enterprise business and payment gateway product of Segovia, a US venture-backed technology company focused on frontier market payments. The acquisition will allow Crown Agents Bank to extend its payment network, include mobile money, and integrate Segovia’s modern payments infrastructure with Crown Agents Bank’s extensive FX capabilities - thus offering a... more Read more »
Broadway Technology, a leading provider of high-performance fixed income and foreign exchange solutions, today announced it has acquired 100% of Barracuda FX, a global provider of FX order management technology. With this acquisition, Broadway will continue to expand its product suite and deliver its multi-asset solutions across more parts of the investment lifecycle while allowing clients to automate additional workflows. Read more »
The finleap ecosystem is proudly growing. Penta, who offers fast and easy business banking for digital companies, is becoming a finleap portfolio company by acquisition. This is a new extension of the finleap ecosystem and steering the internationalisation of Penta at the same time: In the course of 2019, the company will collaborate with Beesy, a finleap portfolio company focusing on digital business banking for freelancers, which launched in... more Read more »
