Mergers & Acquisitions

December, 2020

• 2 December

  Lightspeed Looks to Become a Major Player in Hospitality With Acquisition of Upserve

  

  Canadian processor Lightspeed POS Inc. expects its acquisition of Upserve Inc., a Providence, R.I.-based provider of cloud-based restaurant-management software, to make it more competitive in the restaurant point-of-sale business in the United States.  The acquisition of Upserve for a combination of cash and stock totaling $430 million comes hot on …
• 1 December

  Eye on Acquirers: Nuvei To Acquire Base Commerce Assets And Fattmerchant Gains Major Investor

  

  Nuvei Corp. is making a move to bolster its integrated payments offerings with the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Phoenix-based Base Commerce LLC. Announced Tuesday, the pending deal—it’s expected to close by Dec. 31—will expand Nuvei’s product capabilities with a proprietary automated clearing house platform and additional merchants, Montreal-based …
• 1 December

  Unicorn Momentum—Like Much Else—Slows in 2020 for Payments Firms And Other Fintechs

  

  Most Americans will be glad to see the last of 2020 as they ring in 2021 in a few weeks, and that group will include private investors. In a year in which the coronavirus ran rampant, damaging many businesses and shuttering others, tech investors pegged significantly fewer privately held payments …

November, 2020

• 30 November

  Shopify’s Black Friday Volume up 75% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/30/20

  

  Commerce platform Shopify Inc. reported $2.4 billion in global Black Friday sales, a 75% increase from 2019. Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving. Mobile sales accounted for 68% of U.S. transactions and desktop, 32%. Top U.S. cities were New York, Los Angeles, and Vernon, Calif. The average ticket of $93.80 was …
• 30 November

  COMMENTARY: The DoJ Is Right in Suing To Stop Visa’s Deal For Plaid. Here’s Why (Part II)

  

  Unlike Visa and Mastercard, Plaid is not just another credit and debit card company largely beholden to the big banks. It uses modern technology, in a sector that has been slow to adopt it, to create a new payments paradigm. It likely has no plans to issue cards or use …
• 25 November

  81% Have Used a One-Click Payment Method and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/25/20

  

  Some 81% of U.S. consumers have used a one-click payment method while shopping online, with 37% using the method “frequently,” according to a survey earlier this month of 961 consumers by The Strawhecker Group and the Electronic Transactions Association.Switched dollar volume and switched transaction volume for Mastercard Inc. in the week ending Nov. 21 were both …
• 19 November

  Payroc Acquires Bluestone Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/19/20

  

  Payroc World Access LLC announced the acquisition of Bluestone Payments LLC, an independent sales organization founded by Linda Rossetti. Rossetti will remain Bluestone president and take on the executive vice president, strategic initiatives, role at Payroc. Terms were not disclosed.Payments processor Nuvei Corp. said its Nuvei Technologies Inc. unit has been approved by …
• 17 November

  Why Regulators Are Saying ‘Yes’ to Mastercard-Finicity But ‘No’ to Visa-Plaid

  

  Visa Inc. may be stymied for the time being in its quest to enter the increasingly crucial data-networking business, but its archrival Mastercard Inc. now expects to become a key player in that arena by the end of the year. That’s when the number-two card network says it will close …
• 13 November

  Priority Cites Platform Differentiation As Key to Better Results Amid the Pandemic

  

  Priority Technology Holdings Inc.’s third-quarter results have improved from a year ago, despite the Covid-19 pandemic generally weighing on the economy. The Alpharetta, Ga.-based payments provider said it had $109 million in third-quarter revenue, up 16.1% from $93.9 million in the same quarter in 2019. Its net income of $85.7 million …
• 9 November

  Its SPAC Merger Behind It, Paya Reports Growth ‘Momentum’ From ACH

  

  Paya Holdings Inc. is known for its base in integrated payments and for its processing concentration in card-not-present transactions. But what also became clear early Monday is its growing strength in bringing capability for automated clearing house payments to its roster of clients. “We have good momentum there,” said chief …