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Friday: Product launches and headlines
Saturday: Financing events
Sunday: Exits and deeper reads
Please find another week of fintech exits below.
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☯️ Exits
💻 IPOs & SPACs
German neobank N26 plans to IPO this year.
Roxe, a bitcoin payments solution provider, announced plans to go public.
Serendipity Capital, an Asian SPAC focused on the fintech space, withdrew its $250 million IPO plans.
🤝 M&A - Fintech
Private equity firms Goldfinch and Baupost acquiredConvera, formerly Western Union Business Solutions, for $910 million.
Credit bureau Transunion announced that it will acquire analytics firm Verisk Financial Services for $515 million.
Australian buy-now-pay-later provider Zip confirmed that it will acquire its American counterpart Sezzle for A$491 million
Morocco B2B commerce platform Chari will acquire credit line provider Axa Credit for $22 million.
Travel and corporate card provider TripActions announced its acquisition of Swedish travel management company Resia AB.
Payments software provider Shift4 will acquire both Finaro, a European cross-border payments platform, and The Giving Block, a cryptocurrency fundraising tool for nonprofits.
KYC provider Boku Identity will be sold by Boku to Twilio.
🏦 M&A - Bank and FinServ
In the continued trend of banking mega-mergers for the past year, Canada’s TD Bank announced that it will acquire the US’ First Horizon Bank for $13.4 billion.
Huntington Bank in Ohio agreed to acquire investment banking firm Capstone Partners.
Asian insurer AIA Group will sell its Australian savings and investment business to Resolution Life.
British Columbia Investment Management Corp took a stake in fund management provider Zedra.
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