Will UK neobanks Monzo and Starling go public this year? (TWIF 3/5)

Investment banks are starting to approach UK neobank Monzo over a potential IPO.

Reverence Acquisition, a blank-check company chasing a fintech acquisition, withdrew its $300 million IPO.

Indian payments and API provider Cashfree Paymentsannounced its acquisition of one-click checkout provider Zecpe.

Wealth management infrastructure provider BetaNXT will acquire investor communications firm Mediant Communications.

Quantexa, a risk data provider, will acquire Irish NLP firm Aylien.

Noventiq, a cybersecurity firm focused on financial services, finished its acquisition of Saga Group, a comparable firm operating in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia.

Card network Visa is considering an acquisition of Fidelity Information Services, the embattled core provider that recently spun out Worldpay, at a significant premium to its $64 share price - in the $85 to $105 range (which would value it as high as $60 billion).

Spain's Banco Sabadell sold an 80% stake in its payments unit Paycomet to Italy’s Nexi for €280 million and signed a 10-year exclusive distribution deal with the firm.

Spanish multinational insurance firm MAPFREbought a majority stake in French boutique fund manager La Financière Responsable.

Asset manager BlackRock sold its roboadvisor business, FutureAdvisor, to Ritholtz Wealth Management.

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice entered an agreement to purchase wealth management conglomerate FOCUS for over $7 billion.

Private equity firm Ares Management will acquire a minority stake in fixed-income manager BlueCove.

Goldman Sachs is looking to sell its lending unit Greensky, which it acquired in 2021 for $2.24 billion.

Australian private equity firm Macquarie is looking into a £5 billion bid for fund manager and insurer M&G.

The US FTC is looking to block the proposed $13 billion takeover of mortgage firm Black Knight by exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange.

European exchange operator Euronext pulled its $5.8 billion offer to buy fund distribution firm Allfunds.