No buyer materializes for FTX (TWIF 11/13)
And Bill.com, Worldline, and Tribal all go shopping for fintech acquisitions.

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☯️ Exits
🤝 M&A - Fintech
- As everyone reading this newsletter should know by now, this week, FTX, the world’s seventh-biggest crypto exchange, encountered insolvency and was forced to look at strategic sale options due to a run on the bank. Its rival Binance, the world’s largest exchange, signed a non-binding agreement to acquire FTX, but later walked away from the acquisition after one day of audits. Meanwhile, the parent entity is trying to sell its ring-fenced US subsidiary, FTX.us, to rivals Gemini or Kraken. The turmoil is caused ripples throughout digital currency markets - with bitcoin tumbling 11% as of writing. It remains to be seen what the fallout is from the contagion of FTX’s collapse.
- French payments giant Worldline is boosting its presence in Italy through the acquisition of Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring business for €100 million.
- Railsr, a UK banking and compliance software provider formerly known as Railsbank, which just last month announced a $46m Series C, reportedly shopping for a buyer.
- Business-focused fintech giant Bill will acquire financial planning and analysis software builder Finmark.
- Latin American corporate payments provider Tribal* announced its acquisition of Paykii, a B2B cross-border bill pay platform.
- Indian small business-focused neobank startup ZikZuk acquired tax e-filing platform TaxSpanner.
- Prevu, a digital homebuying platform, acquired the assets of Reali, which in August announced it was shutting down after raising a $100 million Series B a year prior.
🏦 M&A - Bank and FinServ
- Alternative asset manager Canyon Partners is exploring selling itself.
- The Irish government sold 5% of Allied Irish Banks to institutional investors for €396.6 million.
- Australian fund manager Perpetual rejected a second private equity takeover proposal at a price of A$1.89 billion.
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