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66 Payments-Related M&As in the First Half of 2022 Outpaced 2021
There were 66 mergers and acquisitions in the payments space in the first half of this year, with several more occurring in the past few...
Justin McDonald
Nov 14, 20222 min read
Equifax to Acquire Post-Transaction Provider Midigator
Equifax announced a definitive agreement to acquire dispute management software company Midigator, focusing on the complementary nature...
Justin McDonald
Aug 8, 20221 min read
LexisNexis Acquisition of BehavioSec Underscores Challenges of Authentication in the Digital Age
LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced their acquisition of behavioral biometric provider BehavioSec earlier this month. One of the earliest...
Justin McDonald
May 24, 20222 min read
LexisNexis Makes Two Major Risk & Identity Acquisitions in First Two Months of 2020
LexisNexis prepares to fund two acquisitions totaling $855 million as parent company RELX looks to buy two major names in the identity...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Visa Purchases Verifi in Second Issuer Alert Acquisition of 2019
Visa announced their acquisition of Verifi on June 28th, about three months after MasterCard announced their acquisition of Ethoca. Both...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Equifax Acquires SMB Credit Rating Firm PayNet
Founded in 2000, PayNet provides a range of services and data products for leasing and commercial lending companies to make better credit...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min read
MasterCard Acquires Ethoca, Post-Transaction Provider Pioneer
MasterCard announced on March 12 their acquisition of Ethoca, pioneer of the chargeback or issuer alert service. The acquisition is...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Vantiv Eyes Global Expansion, Acquires WorldPay for Nearly $10 Billion
Vantiv, the largest acquirer in the U.S. based on transaction processing volume, is now a significant global competitor as well,...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
First Data, North American Bancard Each Complete Major Payment Acquisitions
At the end of May, First Data announced they had reached agreement to acquire another large, publicly traded payment processor,...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
MasterCard to Acquire NuData Security
At the end of March, MasterCard announced they had entered into an agreement to acquire NuData Security, the behavioral biometric and...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Alibaba Spin Off to Acquire MoneyGram for $880 Million
Ant Financial Services Group, the Alibaba Group affiliate formerly known as Alipay, announced the acquisition of major money remittance...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Vantiv to Acquire Moneris USA for $425 Million
Vantiv, one of the largest payment processors in the U.S., will expand their merchant client-base with the acquisition of Moneris USA for...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Wal-Mart’s $3.3 Billion Acquisition of Jet.com Signifies the Importance of eCommerce
Already an eCommerce, as well as brick-and-mortar, giant, Wal-Mart upped the ante on their digital commerce bet acquiring an online...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Ingenico Invests in Omni-Channel with Acquisition of Think&Go NFC
Once primarily known for POS hardware, Ingenico Group greatly increased their eCommerce payment services with the late 2014 acquisition...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Amazon Acquires Indian eCommerce Payment Platform Emvantage
Amazon announced in February they would be acquiring Emvantage, an online payment gateway that processes alternative and card-based...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20211 min read
IBM Acquires European Payment Fraud Vendor IRIS Analytics
In mid-January IBM announced the acquisition of IRIS Analytics, a data modeling and analytics provider based in Germany that focuses on...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Visa Inc. Acquisition of Visa Europe Will Bring 3 Billion Active Cards Under Single Entity
Visa Inc., the U.S. based publicly traded organization, announced on Monday November 2nd that they would be acquiring Visa Europe Ltd.,...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Dell to Acquire RSA Parent Company EMC for $67 Billion
Dell announced Monday they will be acquiring enterprise software, storage and security firm EMC in what will be the largest tech merger...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
WorldPay Chooses IPO Over Multiple Buyout Bids
After announcing plans to take WorldPay public on the London Stock Exchange, Ingenico, Wirecard AG and a private equity consortium each...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
First Data Acquires Digital Gift Card Distributor Transaction Wireless Inc.
Less than one year after the acquisition of digital gift card platform Gyft in 2014, First Data announced the acquisition of Transaction...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
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