Key:
Financial Transactions (IPOs, venture capital raises of >$5 million, spin-offs)
Mergers & Acquisitions

2023

NCR completed its split into two public companies, NCR Atleos (ATM-focused) and NCR Voyix (Digital Commerce-focused)

Goldman Sachs sells GreenSky to a consortium led by Sixth Street

Rainforest secured $11.75 million in seed funding, including $8.5 million equity

Momnt raises $15 million in equity capital

SplitIt secures a $50 million investment from Motive Partners

TTV Capital closed its sixth fund at $250 million, reflecting a $100 million oversubscription 

Greenwood acquires Kinly and The Gathering Spot 

NOW Corp launched a $225 million credit facility, backed by Goldman Sachs and the Urban Investment Group 

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) bought Black Knight for $12 billion, rebrands the unit to Dark Matter Technologies

Worldplay sold by FIS to private equity firm GTCR for $18 billion

Fleetcor bought Mina EV Charging

2022

Bakkt acquires Apex Crypto LLC for up to $200 million (combined cash and stock)
ConnexPay received a $110 million investment led by FTV Capital
Global Payments agrees to acquire EVO Payments for $4 billion
Global Payments sold the consumer portion of its Netspend business to Searchlight Capital
Urjanet is acquired by Arcadia for an undisclosed amount
DefenseStorm completed a $15M Series C raise led by JAM FINTOP
Ledgible raises $20 million in Series A funding from investors including EJF Capital, TTV Capital and Thomson Reuters Ventures
Keep Financial raises $9 mil seed round funding led by Andreessen Horowitz
Intercontinental Exchange announces plan to acquire Black Knight for $13.1 billion
FIS acquires Payrix for an undisclosed sum
nCino acquires SimpleNexus for about $270 million
Merchant e-Solutions is acquired by Integrum Holdings from Cielo for $290 million
FilmHedge closed $100 million in debt financing
Groundfloor announces $118 million in investments from Medipower and a large number of individual investors
Verdata raises $3 million in seed funding
Wayflyer raises $150m in Series B financing co-led by DST Global and QED Investors
REPAY acquires Payix for up to $95 million

2021

Sunday secured $24 million in seed round
Sunday acquires Canadian-based CHK PLZ for an undisclosed amount
Sunday raised $100 million Series A funding led by DST Global and Coatue
AmerisourceBergen acquires FirstView Financial for an undisclosed amount
NCR acquires LibertyX, a digital coin currency solution, for an undisclosed sum
Wayflyer secured $76 million in Series A funding

Cardlytics acquires customer data platform Bridg for about $350 million.
Fiserv acquires NetPay – terms not disclosed
Now Corp. secured $29 million in funding from Brigade Capital Management and Virgo Investment Group
Carputty raises $7.2 million in seed round capital
Intuit acquires MailChimp for $12 billion
Goldman Sachs acquires GreenSky for $2.2 billion
UPS acquires Roadie
Equifax acquires Appriss Insights

FLEETCOR acquires ALE Solutions
Equifax acquires Teletrack
Artis Technologies announces a $7 million Series A round led by Saluda Grade
Relay Payments raised $45 million of what is projected to be a $60 million funding round
Waystar acquires Patientco for an undisclosed amount.
RoadSync raises $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global
Now secures $9.5 million in Series A funding led by Virgo Investment
Monotto acquires by Horicon Bank
Equifax acquires Kount
Jack Henry acquires Stackfolio
Bakkt announced plans to go public via a SPAC by merging with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings, with an expected valuation of $2.1 billion
SimpleNexus acquires LBA Ware for an undisclosed amount
Global Payments acquires Zego for $925 million
Repay to acquires Billing Tree for $503 million
Greenwood closes $40 million of Series A funding led by Truist Ventures
Cardlytics purchases Dosh, a cash-back offers platform, for $275 million 
Deluxe acquires First American Payments Systems for $960 million
Medxoom lands $8 million investment
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. merges with Finxera Holdings, Inc.
LendingPoint announced a $125 million preferred equity investment from Warburg Pincus
NCR acquires ATM operator Cardtronics for $2.5 billion
Fiserv acquires Ondot Systems

2020

Verifone acquires 2Checkout for an undisclosed amount.
Moov raises $27 million in Series A capital
Relay Payments raised $43 million in venture capital
Urjanet raises $14.65 million in Series D funding from investors including Equifax and Oak HC/FT
Worldline acquires Ingenico for $8.6 billion
Greenlight raises $215 million in C-Round funding, valuing it at $1.2 billion
PPRO raises $180 million from  Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital, and Wellington Management; and $90 million from JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Eldridge
AMEX acquires Kabbage
Payroc acquires Gateway Payments
Payroc acquires Strategic Payment Systems
Paya acquires The Payment Group
Paya goes public via SPAC merger
Trust Stamp raises $7.7 million in Series A and crowdfunding equity
EVO payments raises an additional $150 million  in equity capital
Featurespace raises $37 million in funding
Morgan Stanley acquires online broker E-Trade for $13 billion
Intercontinental Exchange acquires Bridge2Solutions, integrating it with ICE’s subsidiary Bakkt
Bakkt raises $300 million in Series B funding from investors including Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group
RoadSync raises $5.7 million in venture funding

Earlier Notable Deals

2019

Global Payments merged with TSYS in a deal valued at $21.5 billion
FIS acquires Worldpay for $43 billion (includes assumption of debt)
Fiserv acquires First Data for $22 billion
Elavon acquires the Sage Pay unit of Sage Group for $300 million
FLEETCOR acquires Travelliance
REPAY acquires TriSource Solutions
Drum Technologies raises $11 million in funding from a group led by Propel Venture Partners (BBVA) and American Express Ventures
Greenlight Financial Technology raises $54 million in investment capital from Drive Capital (Lead), JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo
DefenseStorm raised $15 million in a funding round led by Georgian Partners
Incomm acquires Meridian Loyalty
Payrix closed $22 million funding led by Blue Star Innovation Partners
NCR acquires D3 Technology
ConnexPay closed a Series A funding round of $7 million led by BIP Capital
Incomm acquires Hallmark Business Connections
Payscape merges with NXGEN
IDology acquired by GBG for $300 million
Linq3 Technologies acquired by Incomm
Kabbage raises $700 million in debt financing
Repay Holdings goes public via a SPAC merger with Thunder Bridge
Featurespace raises $32 million in venture capital
FLEETCOR acquires Nvoicepay
Paya acquires First Billing Systems

2018

Priority Technology Holdings went public via a SPAC
Vanco Payment Solutions merges with Connexeo
Purchasing Power acquired DoubleNet Pay
Pindrop raises $90 million in venture capital
LendingPoint acquires LoanHero
Thoma Bravo Acquires and Merges MeridianLink and CRIF Lending Solutions
Bakkt raises $183 million in venture capital
Q2 acquires Gro Solutions
NCR acquires JetPay
Fiserv acquires the debit card processing, MoneyPass Network and ATM management operations of US Bank’s Elan unit
Elavon acquires Electronic Transaction Systems
Patientco raises $28 million in venture capital from Accel-KKR
PPRO Group raises $50 million in venture capital
Fattmerchant raises $10.5 million in venture capital Led by Fulcrum Partners
GreenSky completes $874 million IPO
EVO Payments completes $244 million IPO
Ebix acquires Transcorp Int’l and Centrum Direct
BitPay raises $40 million in venture capital
Instant Financial secures $14.3 million in venture capital from TTV Capital
Kabbage acquires Orchard Platform Markets
Cardlytics completes $70 million IPO
Greenlight raises $20 million in venture capital
BMW acquires Parkmobile

2017

BitPay raises $30 million in venture capital
Cardlytics raises $12 million in venture capital
Ebix acquires ItzCash, via.com, Paul merchants
Equifax acquires ID Watchdog
EVO Payments acquired Sterling Payment Technologies
Exela acquires TransCentra
First Data acquires Acculynk, BluePay, and CardConnect
First Performance Global raises $17.5 million in venture capital
FLEETCOR acquires Cambridge Global Payments
Fiserv acquires Dovetail, Monetise, PCLender
GreenSky raises $200 million in venture capital
InterContinental Exchange acquires eVestment
Kabbage raises $250 in venture capital and $700 million in debt financing
TSYS acquires Cayan
Urjanet raises $20 million in venture capital
Vantiv acquires Paymetric
Vantiv acquires Worldpay, adopts the Worldpay name

2016

Pindrop raises $80.8 million in venture capital
Alogent spun out as standalone private company from Jack Henry
Bridge2Solutions raises $35 million in venture capital
Ebix acquires WDev
Equifax acquires Barnett Associates
FactorTrust raises $17 million in venture capital
Fiserv acquires Online Banking Solutions
GreenSky raises $50 million in venture capital
Global Payments acquires Heartland and eWay
Incomm acquires ValuAccess – Prepaid Distribution
Ingo Money raises $12 million in venture capital
InterContinental Exchange acquires Bondpoint
NCR acquires Cimplebox
TransUnion acquires FactorTrust
TSYS acquires TransFirst

2015

Pindrop raises $30 million in venture capital
Prime Revenue raises $80 million in venture capital
Centerbridge Partners acquires IPC Systems for $1.2 billion
Equifax acquires Veda Advantage
First Data completes $3 billion IPO
First Data acquires Transaction Wireless
Global Payments acquires Realex Payments
Payscape acquires Vendevor
Priority Payment Systems acquires American Credit Card Processing

2014

FLEETCOR acquires Comdata
NCR acquires Digital Insight

2013

ACI acquires Official Payments
Digital insight taken private from Intuit by Thoma Bravo
TSYS acquires Netspend
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