acquisitions

Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid

Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
Visa’s $5.3B FinTech Play, Wrapped In Plaid
January 14, 2020  |  VISA

Visa is buying Plaid — the startup that develops APIs for financial services — for $5.3 billion. By helping to bridge the gap between apps...

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Takeaway Wins Bid For UK’s Just Eat With $8B Share Offer
Takeaway Wins Bid For UK’s Just Eat With $8B Share Offer
January 10, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Online food ordering firm Takeaway.com has won the battle for the U.K.’s Just Eat with a 6.2 billion pound ($8 billion) share offer that will...

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Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
Nets Looks To Widen European Scope With Finnish Acquisitions
January 09, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Denmark-based payments platform Nets is acquiring two Finnish companies, Poplatek and its spinoff Poplapay, to enhance its payments capabilities and better serve merchants across Europe,...

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Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
January 03, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of...

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Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
Red Hat: Open-Source Software Poised To Play A Bigger Payments Role
December 26, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

One can almost feel it in the bones: the excitement to come in the world of payments in 2020, as innovation sparks new business models...

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PayPal CFO Says Appetite For Acquisition Will Continue Into 2020
PayPal CFO Says Appetite For Acquisition Will Continue Into 2020
December 23, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Payments company PayPal recently acquired Chinese payment platform GoPay, and it wants to continue to complete such deals, according to a report by The Wall...

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Smartphone App Truecaller Ventures Into Business FinTech Before IPO
Smartphone App Truecaller Ventures Into Business FinTech Before IPO
December 23, 2019  |  B2B Payments

As it ponders an IPO in the next two years, Sweden’s caller ID firm Truecaller has been piloting FinTech products to offer credit to small...

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F5 Adds To Portfolio With $1B Shape Security Acquisition
F5 Adds To Portfolio With $1B Shape Security Acquisition
December 20, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

To add protection from targeted fraud, automated attacks and botnets to its portfolio of application services, F5 will acquire fraud and abuse prevention company Shape Security....

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Top News In Payments: Facebook Is Developing Its Own OS; PayPal Acquires 70 Pct Stake In China’s GoPay
Top News In Payments: Facebook Is Developing Its Own OS; PayPal Acquires 70 Pct Stake...
December 20, 2019  |  News

In today’s top news, Facebook is developing its own operating system to increase its independence, and PayPal is acquiring a 70 percent stake in China’s...

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