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Spotlight on this week’s Fintech deals, with the US and UK accounting for over half of our top 10 deals Our Top 3 Funding Rounds: ✔ Betashares, an Australia-based exchange-traded funds platform, secured a c.$200m growth round led by Temasek Holdings ✔ Celcoin, a banking-as-a-service platform in Brazil, closed a $125m growth round with Summit Partners ✔ Clip, a Mexican digital payments and commerce platform, announced their $100m investment round led by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Our Selected M&A Highlights: ✔ Global Payments Inc. acquired takepayments Limited, a UK-based payments provider, for a total consideration of $250m ✔ Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva), a US-based carbon accounting solution, has been taken private by Workiva for a total consideration of $100m Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eeGzY-ue Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions FINBOURNE Technology, Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech), Gynger, Finaloop

Spotlight on this week’s Fintech deals, with the US and UK accounting for over half of our top 10 deals Our Top 3 Funding Rounds: ✔ Betashares, an Australia-based exchange-traded funds platform, secured a c.$200m growth round led by Temasek Holdings ✔ Celcoin, a banking-as-a-service platform in Brazil, closed a $125m growth round with Summit Partners ✔ Clip, a Mexican digital payments and commerce platform, announced their $100m investment round led by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Our Selected M&A Highlights: ✔ Global Payments Inc. acquired takepayments Limited, a UK-based payments provider, for a total consideration of $250m ✔ Sustain.Life (now part of Workiva), a US-based carbon accounting solution, has been taken private by Workiva for a total consideration of $100m Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eKYctBjd Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions FINBOURNE Technology, Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech), Gynger, Finaloop

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with our Crypto and Capital Markets verticals accounting for more than half of our top 10 deals Our Top 3 Funding Rounds: ✔ HR Path, one of the world’s leading HR consultancies, secured €500 million fundraising from Ardian  ✔ Sentient Foundation, a blockchain-powered open source AI development platform, raised $85 million from investors including Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund ✔RavenPack, a data analytics pioneer for financial services, has raised $20 million from GP Bullhound Our Selected M&A Highlights: ✔ Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data, has agreed to be acquired by BlackRock for approximately $3.2 billion in cash ✔ MultiSafepay has agreed to be sold to Chinese software giant Ant Group, for a total consideration of $200m Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eeGzY-ue Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions Atlax 360, RedStone Oracles

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with our Crypto and Capital Markets verticals accounting for more than half of our top 10 deals Our Top 3 Funding Rounds: ✔ HR Path, one of the world’s leading HR consultancies, secured €500 million fundraising from Ardian  ✔ Sentient Foundation, a blockchain-powered open source AI development platform, raised $85 million from investors including Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund ✔RavenPack, a data analytics pioneer for financial services, has raised $20 million from GP Bullhound Our Selected M&A Highlights: ✔ Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data, has agreed to be acquired by BlackRock for approximately $3.2 billion in cash ✔ MultiSafepay has agreed to be sold to Chinese software giant Ant Group, for a total consideration of $200m Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eKYctBjd Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions Atlax 360, RedStone Oracles

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with our Crypto and Capital Markets verticals accounting for more than half of our top 10 deals Our Top 3 Funding Rounds: ✔ HR Path, one of the world’s leading HR consultancies, secured €500 million fundraising from Ardian  ✔ Sentient Foundation, a blockchain-powered open source AI development platform, raised $85 million from investors including Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures and Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund ✔RavenPack, a data analytics pioneer for financial services, has raised $20 million from GP Bullhound Our Selected M&A Highlights: ✔ Preqin, a leading independent provider of private markets data, has agreed to be acquired by BlackRock for approximately $3.2 billion in cash ✔ MultiSafepay has agreed to be sold to Chinese software giant Ant Group, for a total consideration of $200m Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eFwgueZW Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions Atlax 360, RedStone Oracles

Last week we saw 5 official FinTech deals in Europe for a total amount of €27.4m raised with 4 deals in the UK and 1 deal in Latvia. Congratulations to Xapien, a UK-based AI due diligence provider, for securing a €9.4 million Series A round led by YFM Equity Partners. Applause also goes to Instinct Digital, which provides digital reporting solutions for asset managers, for their €5.9 million Series A round led by AlbionVC. Finally, we extend our congratulations to Haruko , a British digital asset investment management platform, which has successfully raised €5.6 million in Series A funding led by White Star Capital’s Digital Asset Fund and MMC Ventures. Read the complete BlackFin Tech overview article for more info: https://lnkd.in/d2zm9SWP Sign up for more news updates like this in our daily newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eskQx7Ym #fintech #donedeal #financialtechnology #fintechindustry #fintechnews

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with the United Kingdom and France in the spotlight, each sealing 2 of our top 10 deals. From a vertical point of view, ‘Banking, Lending’ led with 5 transactions. Our Selected Funding Rounds of the Week: ✔️ Ualá, an Argentinian-based neobank, raised a $300 million Series E funding round led by Allianz X ✔️ Neo Financial, a Canadian-based financial super-app, secured a $257 million Series D round, of which $78 million of equity from Valar Ventures LLC, Golden Ventures, Afore Capital, and Thomvest Ventures ✔️ Lean Technologies, a Saudi Arabia-based open banking infrastructure provider, raised $68 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst Our Selected M&A Deals of the Week: ✔️ Aquis Exchange, a UK-based pan-European multilateral trading facility for cash equities in 16 European markets, was acquired for $292 million by SIX ✔️ aixigo, an API-based wealth management platform from Germany, was acquired for $161 million by Amundi Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eFwgueZW Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with the United Kingdom and France in the spotlight, each sealing 2 of our top 10 deals. From a vertical point of view, ‘Banking, Lending’ led with 5 transactions. Our Selected Funding Rounds of the Week: ✔️ Ualá, an Argentinian-based neobank, raised a $300 million Series E funding round led by Allianz X ✔️ Neo Financial, a Canadian-based financial super-app, secured a $257 million Series D round, of which $78 million of equity from Valar Ventures LLC, Golden Ventures, Afore Capital, and Thomvest Ventures ✔️ Lean Technologies, a Saudi Arabia-based open banking infrastructure provider, raised $68 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst Our Selected M&A Deals of the Week: ✔️ Aquis Exchange, a UK-based pan-European multilateral trading facility for cash equities in 16 European markets, was acquired for $292 million by SIX ✔️ aixigo, an API-based wealth management platform from Germany, was acquired for $161 million by Amundi Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eeGzY-ue Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions

Spotlight on this week’s fintech deals, with the United Kingdom and France in the spotlight, each sealing 2 of our top 10 deals. From a vertical point of view, ‘Banking, Lending’ led with 5 transactions. Our Selected Funding Rounds of the Week: ✔️ Ualá, an Argentinian-based neobank, raised a $300 million Series E funding round led by Allianz X ✔️ Neo Financial, a Canadian-based financial super-app, secured a $257 million Series D round, of which $78 million of equity from Valar Ventures LLC, Golden Ventures, Afore Capital, and Thomvest Ventures ✔️ Lean Technologies, a Saudi Arabia-based open banking infrastructure provider, raised $68 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst Our Selected M&A Deals of the Week: ✔️ Aquis Exchange, a UK-based pan-European multilateral trading facility for cash equities in 16 European markets, was acquired for $292 million by SIX ✔️ aixigo, an API-based wealth management platform from Germany, was acquired for $161 million by Amundi Please click on the link below to read and download our report https://lnkd.in/eKYctBjd Follow our page and subscribe to receive the latest Fintech Market updates by email (http://eepurl.com/ih7D_5) #fintech #mergersandacquisitions

💬 Our CEO, Ian Ormerod, will be joining the FINE - Fintech Investor Network and Ecosystem webinar today to discuss the exciting evolution of #GreenFintech and how the fintech sector is integrating #sustainability to address environmental challenges. 🌍💡 Be sure to tune in via the link below 👇