ServiceNow plans to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash and create a unified, end-to-end security exposure and operations stack. The stack will cover all connected devices and help protect the expanded attack surface created by the adoption of artificial intelligence, according to a Tuesday...
Google’s parent company is set to acquire Intersect, a company providing data center and energy infrastructure solutions. The $4.75 billion deal is designed to allow more artificial intelligence (AI) data center and generation capacity to come online more quickly while accelerating energy development and innovation,...
Coinbase is expanding its new prediction markets business by acquiring The Clearing Company. The acquisition, announced Monday (Dec. 22), comes days after Coinbase said it would begin offering access to prediction markets in the U.S. “Prediction markets let people trade on real-world events across everything...
Payments/FinTech company Fiserv has launched agentic commerce-focused partnerships with Visa and Mastercard. The former collaboration, announced Monday (Dec. 22), combines Visa’s authentication and agentic commerce capabilities with Fiserv’s merchant network, thus providing the “infrastructure and trust” merchants require amid the increasing automation of commerce. “Fiserv...
Merchants across the Middle East and Africa can now connect to Mastercard’s portfolio of merchant-focused solutions through MoneyHash’s payment orchestration platform. The capability is enabled by a new partnership between the two companies that facilitates access to Mastercard’s Merchant Cloud platform, according to a Thursday...
Cryptocurrency solutions company Ripple says it has expanded its partnership with broker-dealer TJM Investments. With this collaboration, Ripple is investing in TJM and will continue to provide infrastructure to support its execution and clearing services, the companies announced Thursday (Dec. 18). “Ripple’s multi-asset prime brokerage...
Alternative asset manager Blackstone is reportedly in talks to offer its funds through FinTech company Revolut’s platform. Revolut is developing a private banking service, and Blackstone’s funds would be offered to that service’s clients, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Dec. 18), citing unnamed sources. The companies’ discussions...
Wall Street began the year hopeful that 2025 would usher in a wave of dealmaking. Dealmakers got their wish, as this year has seen an almost record-breaking number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Reuters reported Thursday (Dec. 18). Bankers and lawyers said the trend will...
Fiserv completed its acquisition of StoneCastle Cash Management and will integrate the company’s institutional deposit network with the Fiserv ecosystem. This integration will expand Fiserv’s ability to deliver insured deposit funding solutions and will extend the capabilities of its ecosystem that includes core account processing, digital banking...