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1.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDelta Takes Minority Stake In Private Jet Startup Wheels Up
Delta Airlines has decided to take a different direction when it comes to its private jet business, announcing earlier today that it...
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2.5KANTITRUSTState AGs To Fight T-Mobile-Sprint Merger In Federal Trial
A group of state attorneys general are getting set to fight against the T-Mobile and Sprint merger in an unprecedented federal trial....
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1.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsJust Eat Recommends Declining Prosus Offer In Favor Of Takeaway
British online food and delivery company Just Eat is asking its shareholders to hold off on approving an offer from Prosus, saying...
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1.9KRegulationRegulators Green Light BB&T, SunTrust Merger To Form Truist
BB&T and SunTrust have announced that they have received regulatory approval to complete their merger to become Truist Financial Corporation. The merger...
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1.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSoftBank To Hold 50 Pct. Of Yahoo Japan/LINE JV
SoftBank’s Yahoo! Japan is merging with Naver Corp’s Japanese messaging app LINE in a deal that will give each company a 50...
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1.4KAcquiringTakeaway CEO Won’t Outbid Rival Prosus For Just Eat Merger
Takeaway.com’s CEO said his company isn’t ready to outbid its rival on a merger with the UK’s Just Eat. Amsterdam’s Takeaway and...
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1.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsLINE App, Yahoo Japan Plan Merger
Yahoo site operators in Japan and messaging app LINE are looking to merge into a “super app” that would combine retail, finance...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsCYBG Officially Renamed As Virgin Money UK
British financial institution CYBG was bought by Virgin over a year ago, and on Thursday (Oct. 31), it was renamed Virgin Money...
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3.1KDeliveryJust Eat Rejects $6B Buyout Bid From Prosus
London food delivery service Just Eat turned down a $6.2 billion offer from Amsterdam investment firm Prosus, the Associated Press (AP) reported...
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2.8KRetailNaspers Makes £4.9B Bid For Just Eat
With a hostile £4.9bn offer for the United Kingdom’s Just Eat, South African tech conglomerate Naspers has aimed to gate-crash a merger of...
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2.4KEarningsSunTrust Beats Revenue Forecast Ahead Of BB&T Merger
SunTrust Banks Inc. reported results on Thursday (Oct. 17) that surpassed revenue expectations but fell in line with analysts’ earnings estimates for the...
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1.6KEarningsAhead Of Suntrust Merger, BB&T Sees Strong Loan Growth, Credit Quality
BB&T Corp., ahead of its planned buy of SunTrust banks, posted results that beat expectations and showed a slight decrease in non-performing...
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4.1KRegulationPayPal’s iZettle Acquisition Draws Fine From UK Regulator
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the U.K. has levied a fine against PayPal for breaking rules regarding marketing in the...
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6.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsTSYS, Global Payments Merger Finalized In ‘Landmark Transaction’
Payments companies Global Payments and TSYS (Total System Services) have finalized a merger deal that creates a combined pure play payments technology...
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3.7KInternationalIndia’s State Banks To Merge As Economy Slows
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is merging state banks as the country looks for ways to offset a slowdown of the economy,...
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4.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGOJEK Said To Be Acquiring Moka POS Startup
One of the largest and most valuable tech companies in Indonesia, GOJEK, is said to be about to acquire Moka POS, a...
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19.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFiserv-First Data Merger Is Complete
The big deal is now complete: Fiserv announced this morning (July 29) that it has completed its acquisition of First Data Corporation....
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2.8KDeliveryDutch Takeaway.com Gets $10B For London’s Just Eat Takeover
Amsterdam-based Takeaway.com will merge with London’s Just Eat to create one of the biggest companies in the online food delivery sector. Combined,...
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3.3KDeliveryJust Eat, Takeaway.com Rumored To Combine To Take On Uber Eats
Dutch takeout giant Takeaway.com is in talks to buy London’s Just Eat and create a £9 billion ($11.1 billion) online food ordering...
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6.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDOJ Discloses Terms Of Agreement In Sprint, T-Mobile Merger
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Friday (July 26) that it has come to an agreement on the merger between Sprint...
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3.3KAppleApple Rumored To Buy Intel’s Chip Business
Apple is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire chipmaker Intel Corp’s smartphone-modem chip business. The deal, valued at $1 billion or more,...
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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsRegulators Close To Approving Long-Debated T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
The long-running proposed $26 billion T-Mobile-Sprint merger is close to getting a go-ahead from federal regulators. The U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Chief...
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4.2KBankingSunTrust Experiences Overall ‘Solid’ Q2 Amid Planned BB&T Merger
SunTrust Banks Inc. reported results Thursday (July 18) that surpassed revenue expectations but fell slightly under earnings estimates for the second quarter....
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2.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsT-Mobile, Sprint Merger Could Be At Risk If DOJ Sues
The Department of Justice (DOJ) may file a lawsuit to block the merger of telecom giants Sprint and T-Mobile if the two...
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2.9KPayments As A ServiceThinkHR, Mammoth HR Merger Boosts Payroll Position
Human resources management firm ThinkHR is strengthening its payroll footprint with a merger announced Friday (July 12). In a press release, ThinkHR...
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2.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDOJ Close To Approving T-Mobile, Sprint Merger
The Department of Justice (DoJ) is inching closer to approving a merger between the No. 3 and No. 4 telecom companies, T-Mobile...
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2.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDish Helps T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Inch Closer To Reality
The potential merger between telecommunications giants T-Mobile and Sprint is getting closer to approval after T-Mobile and Dish reached a divestiture deal...
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2.7KData DiveData Dive, Come Together Edition: Visa, Capital One, BB&T-SunTrust
Between the big news about Libra and the segment-wide spin-up for Prime Day in two weeks, one might have assumed we have...
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1.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsEuropean Laundry Startups Merge To Dominate UK Market
Laundry service startup Laundrapp announced that it has merged with its biggest competitor, Zipjet, to become the largest on-demand laundry service. Together,...
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8.5KRegulationHearings Scheduled For BB&T, SunTrust Merger
The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled hearings about the proposed merger between BB&T and SunTrust Banks, as well as the Facebook-planned...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsUnitedHealth Will Pay $3.2B For Payments Co Equian
UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of the largest U.S. health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, will purchase healthcare payments company Equian for around $3.2 billion,...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsCYBG Rebrands To Virgin Money Name In SMB Pursuit
The Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group (CYBG) brand is going into retirement after its merger with Virgin Money, which will have its...
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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsTrustly And PayWithMyBank Merge For Europe-to-US Payments
European online banking payments provider Trustly has merged with Silicon Valley online banking payments company PayWithMyBank, according to a blog post by...
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4.5KBankingSunTrust, BB&T Pick New Bank Name
BB&T and SunTrust have settled on a name for their combined bank: Truist. Truist will be the sixth-largest U.S. bank holding company,...
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6.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVietnam’s mPOS And Vimo To Combine Into NextPay
Two Hanoi-based FinTech startups, Vimo Technology and mPOS Technology, are merging to create NextPay Holdings, according to reports. The CEO of mPOS...
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3.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGrow Mobility Merges With Payment Startup Flinto
Grow Mobility, the company that operates electric scooter and bikesharing startups Grin and Yellow, is merging with Flinto, the payments startup. TechCrunch,...
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3.4KThe WeekenderAnother Payment Megadeal, Amazon Suppliers And PayPal SMB Lending Top The Week’s News
Are you ready for the weekend? Silly question — of course you are. But don’t forget to review this past week of...
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1.8KBankingCommerzbank Keeps Open Mind On M&A
Even though a potential merger with Deutsche Bank fell through, Commerzbank CEO Martin Zielke said he’s still open to the possibility of...
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3.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsStartups Merge To Take On Airbnb
A group of four short-term stay startups in Europe have teamed up to create a new company and take on leader Airbnb....
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7.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPost-Merger, NXGEN And Payscape Eye SMBs’ Digital Shifts
The path to the payments deal started about three or four years ago when Adam Bloomston, CEO of Payscape, and Thomas Nitopi,...
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2.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDeutsche Bank And Commerzbank Call Off Deal Talks
Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank announced Thursday (April 25) that they have ended talks about a combination. In a statement on its Website,...
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DOJ Asks First Data, Fiserv For Additional Docs
The Department of Justice has requested more information from First Data and Fiserv ahead of the pending merger of the two payment...
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5.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFirst Data Buys German Cashless Tech Co ayCash
First Data, a commerce-enabling FinTech company, has acquired ayCash, a company that specializes in cashless payment terminals and merchant services in the...
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16.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFIS Buys Worldpay In $35B Cash, Stock Deal
Fidelity Information Services (FIS), a global financial services technology company, announced Monday (March 18) it is merging with Worldpay, the global eCommerce...
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4.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsDeutsche Bank, Commerzbank Confirm Merger Talks
Deutsche Bank confirmed on Sunday (March 17) that it’s in talks with Commerzbank about a deal. In a memo from Deutsche Bank Chief...
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5.7KRetailJudge: Rent-A-Center Doesn’t Have To Complete Merger
A judge has ruled that Rent-A-Center will not have to complete a $1.37 billion merger by Vintage Capital Management, and that the...
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6.4KBankingDeutsche Bank, Commerzbank Ramp Up Merger Talks
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank seem to be getting closer to a merger as informal talks between the two are heating up. Citing...
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3.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCorelle Moves On Instant Pot Merger To Woo Millennials
Corelle Brands has been around for a while — like 100 years. And surely, you have seen its signature products, likely in...
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7.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCertify Merges With Chrome River In $1B Deal
Certify and Chrome River Technologies, two leading travel, expense and invoice management software companies, have announced a $1 billion merger. In a press...
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4.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFed Promises Thorough Scrutiny Of BB&T’s SunTrust Buy
The Federal Reserve Chairman has vowed that U.S. regulators will conduct a “thorough” review of BB&T Corp.’s planned merger with its rival...
