Today in Data: Ant Financial Closes in On MoneyGram Deal

After a long and arduous bidding war, Ant Financial is closing in on its deal to acquire money transfer company MoneyGram.

Reuters has reported a number of large name banks are involved in the loan process to make this a done and dusted transaction.

Here are the numbers:

$3.5 billion | Amount Ant Financial is set to acquire MoneyGram for

14 | Total number of banks in the loan acquisition process

$880 million | Initial amount offered by Ant Financial for acquisition in January 2017

200 | Number of countries MoneyGram is available in

$60 billion | Current valuation of Ant Financial