Tagged: acquisition

September 29, 2026 @ 1:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has taken over Coinglass, a widely used platform that tracks cryptocurrency derivatives activity, according to an official announcement dated September 25, 2026. The deal is already closed. Neither company revealed the purchase price. CoinMarketCap is one of the most frequently cited sites for… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has secured a key regulatory milestone in Latin America after Argentina’s central bank approved its purchase of Banco Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance. The decision, announced by the London-based fintech on 24 September 2026, allows the company to complete a deal first… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

S&P Global has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a move that pairs one of the best-known names in credit ratings and market data with a firm that has spent a decade building security standards for blockchain-based finance. The companies announced the deal on September 17, 2026…. Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Envestnet has signed a definitive agreement to buy Vestmark, a move aimed at strengthening its wealth-technology platform as advisors demand more advanced trading, tax, and portfolio tools. The companies announced the transaction on September 9, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Closing is expected in… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grab Holdings (NASDAQ: GRAB) has agreed to take a controlling interest in Atome Financial, a Singapore-based digital lending platform owned by Advance Intelligence Group, in a two-stage transaction that would significantly expand Grab’s consumer-credit business across Southeast Asia. Under definitive agreements announced on 15 September… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UniCredit has taken a minority holding in Frankfurt-based fintech VC Trade, deepening the Italian lender’s push into digital debt markets. Terms were not disclosed. The agreement includes a right for UniCredit to raise its ownership later and is intended both to fund VC Trade’s growth… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chime Financial (NASDAQ: CHYM) has agreed to purchase longtime partner Stride Bank in an all-cash transaction valued at $590 million, a move that would give the fintech its own nationally chartered bank and a more direct path to owning the infrastructure behind its accounts. The… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has closed its purchase of Dasseti, folding the specialist’s artificial-intelligence tools for due diligence and ongoing manager oversight into Nasdaq eVestment. The deal, first unveiled on July 23, 2026 and completed on September 2, extends a relationship that began when Nasdaq Ventures… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 12:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has reached an agreement to buy Tokyo-based COMWARE Co., Ltd., a move designed to expand its mid-market offering in Japan and deepen the capabilities of Accenture Edge, a unit created in June 2026 to help smaller and mid-sized firms use artificial intelligence… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugging Face, a repository for open source artificial intelligence models, has been acquired by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $12,930,300,000. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. The announcement did not come as a surprise as markets had anticipated the move last… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch payments group Mollie has formally closed its takeover of UK bank-payments specialist GoCardless, bringing to an end a deal first agreed in December 2025. The combination creates a single European financial-services platform serving more than 350,000 businesses in over 30 markets, pairing Mollie’s card-acquiring… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights researchers used the last week of August 2026 to examine three developments that reveal how capital, talent, and product strategy are moving across artificial intelligence, heavy industry, and emerging-market finance. The most prominent deal was NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) purchase of Hugging Face. Job listings… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has acquired Clerky, the online legal platform long used by high-growth startups and their lawyers for incorporation and routine corporate paperwork. The deal expands Stripe’s reach beyond payments and Stripe Atlas into the legal workflows that accompany company formation, fundraising, hiring, and ongoing governance…. Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 8:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has told SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) it will end the arrangement that supplies OpenAI models to the coding product Cursor, after SpaceX completed its purchase of the company behind the tool. The proposed cutoff is November 12, 2026. OpenAI said it is using the longest notice period… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Stripe and Advent International have decided to halt their efforts to acquire PayPal (Nasdaq:PYPL). Advent International is a private equity firm active in the Fintech sector. The two partners had previously agreed to acquire the payments firm for around $53 billion, or $60.50 a… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 6:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Identity verification company Socure has taken another step toward becoming a broader trust platform for the digital economy, announcing a strategic growth round that values the firm at $5.2 billion and completing a deal to buy Fravity, an agentic software company focused on automating fraud,… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global digital asset investment platform RockawayX has acquired Relayer Capital, a crypto-focused hedge fund, in a move that expands its suite of investment strategies and strengthens its footprint in the United States. The deal, announced on August 25, 2026, transforms Relayer into the newly branded… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 7:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

BitGo Holdings (NYSE: BTGO) has announced that it entered into a definitive agreement and completed the acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business and other assets. The deal terms were not immediately available. Shares of BitGo were little changed on the news. BitGo offers custody, wallets,… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vanguard has agreed to buy Altruist, an artificial-intelligence-focused wealth technology and custody firm that serves independent financial advisors. The companies announced a definitive agreement on August 26, 2026, framing the deal as a way to widen access to advice and strengthen the tools advisors use… Read More