This Week in Fintech (12/5)

Hello Fintech Friends,
Please find another week’s financing events and transactions below.
Financings
- Amount, a technology provider for financial institutions, raised an $81 million Series C.
- Indian credit card issuing startup CRED raised an $80 million Series C.
- Monzo, the UK neobank, raised £60 million in funding as an extension to its June round.
- Step, the digital bank for the Tiktok generation, raised $50 million from your run-of-the-mill fintech investors including The Chainsmokers, Justin Timberlake, Charli D’Amelio, Eli Manning, and Will Smith.
- Moov, an open-source banking platform on a mission to embed financial services into the internet, raised a $27 million Series A.
- Canadian wealthtech PureFacts Financial Solutions raised C$20 million from backers including Scotiabank, a week after acquiring rival Quartal Financial Solutions.
- Pave, a startup looking to fix the pay / wage gap, raised a $16 million Series A.
- Pockit, a UK fintech for underbanked consumers, raised £15 million.
- ConnexPay, a marketplace consumer and supplier payments software, raised $15 million from the parent of Fidelity.
- Primer, a UK online checkout API, raised a £14 million Series A.
- Indian investment platform Fisdom raised $7 million in new funding.
- Ziglu, a payments app from the former Starling Bank co-founder, raised £6 million in crowdfunding.
- Earlybird, a platform for investing in childrens’ futures, raised a $2.4 million seed round.
- ReceiptHero, a Finnish platform for the transmission of rich receipt data, raised €2 million in seed funding.
- CredPal raised a $1.5 million seed to launch its credit card platform in Nigeria.
- OwnHome, which helps renters become homeowners, raised £150,000 from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
- ESG insight firm Matter received an undisclosed investment from Nasdaq Ventures.
- York Capital invested an undisclosed amount in F1 Payments.
- The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec made a strategic investment in exchange operator IEX Group.
Exits and M&A
- In an enormous financial data merger, S&P Global agreed to buy IHS Markit for $44 billion. This follows a wave of consolidation in the financial data space, including London Stock Exchange’s $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv (for which it is expected to win approval shortly).
- Australia’s Westpac Bank sold its insurance unit to Allianz for $535 million.
- Lightspeed POS acquired restaurant software provider Upserve for $403 million.
- Affirm agreed to buy its Canadian counterpart, PayBright, for C$340 million.
- South African fintech Ukheshe acquired Oltio, the Mastercard entity responsible for Masterpass.
- Spanish Banco Sabadell is looking to sell its troubled UK banking unit, TSB, after merger talks with BBVA fell through.
- Grab and Gojek are (after much dancing) reportedly close to terms for a merger.
SPAC
- Investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners is close to a merger deal with FinTech Acquisition Corporation IV.
- Golden Falcon Acquisition filed for a $250 million TMT and fintech SPAC.
- Far Peak Acquisition priced a $550 million IPO to acquire a fintech.

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