Mergers & Acquisitions

July, 2019

• 3 July

  Payment Stocks Rebounded in June After a Month in Negative Territory

  

  Stocks of publicly traded payments companies returned to positive territory in June to beat the major market indexes once again after going negative in May. Payments firms also exceeded the market in the year’s second quarter and first half, according to an analysis released Wednesday. A basket of 29 payment …
• 2 July

  Datacap Picks up a Gateway and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 7/2/19

  

  Point-of-sale middleware vendor Datacap Systems Inc. announced it has acquired the NETePay Hosted payment gateway from Octopi (formerly Monetary.co). Terms were not released. NCR Corp. acquired privately held D3 Technology Inc., a provider of online and mobile-banking applications for large financial institutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A …

June, 2019

• 28 June

  Visa Agrees to Buy Verifi As Payments Players Wrestle With Rising Chargebacks

  

  Visa Inc. on Friday announced it will buy Verifi Inc., a 14-year-old, Los Angeles-based provider of tools that allow merchants, acquirers, and issuers to resolve chargebacks. Visa, which did not announce terms for the deal, said it will integrate Verifi’s technology with risk-management capabilities from CyberSource and CardinalCommerce, companies the …
• 27 June

  Paysafe Adds Bank-Payments Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/27/19

  

  Paysafe Group said its Rapid Transfer online-banking payments service available in 18 European countries will be coming to the U.S. through a new partnership with Skrill USA Inc. With Rapid Transfer, consumers can make ACH or wire-transfer payments at Skrill-accepting merchants without leaving the merchant’s Web site. Via Transportation Inc., …
• 25 June

  Visa To Acquire Rambus’s Token and Electronic-Ticketing Businesses for $75 Million

  

  In a move to expand its tokenization services, Visa Inc. announced Tuesday that it has a deal to buy the token and smart-ticketing businesses of Rambus Inc., a Silicon Valley chip and software provider. The purchase price is $75 million in cash, according to a regulatory filing from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based …
• 25 June

  Pineapple Payments Acquires Card Champ and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/25/19

  

  Independent sales organization Pineapple Payments announced it acquired rival Card Champ. Both ISOs are based in Pittsburgh. Terms were not disclosed. Diebold Nixdorf Inc. released the DN Series of ATMs. Diebold said 18 financial institutions in 13 nations are testing the machines. Payment Data Systems Inc. changed its name to …
• 21 June

  Bill Ready, a Key Player in PayPal’s Rise, To Leave Company by Year’s End

  

  PayPal Holdings Inc. announced late Thursday that its chief operating officer William J. “Bill” Ready will leave by the end of 2019 after six years with the online-payments leader. The unexpected departure of its number 2 executive cast some uncertainty over San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal. In mid-morning trading, its stock …
• 18 June

  Celero Commerce’s Two Acquisitions and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/18/19

  

  Celero Commerce announced two acquisitions, those of Elmhurst Financial Services and Tandem Innovative Payment Solutions. Following the deals—financial terms were not disclosed for either—Celero will have approximately 25,000 merchants and process approximately $10 billion in annual payment volume. Payment Alliance International said it acquired ISA-ECash, an ATM operator and developer …
• 14 June

  PPRO Acquires Allpago and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/14/19

  

  Cross-border payments firm PPRO announced its acquisition of Allpago, a payment and gateway provider in Latin America. Terms were not disclosed. Payments-services provider i2c Inc. said it is working with Zero, a financial-technology company that provides banking services. Payveris LLC completed its $7 million Series D funding round led by …
• 11 June

  Sterling Card Acquired and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/11/19

  

  Private-equity firm Acuity Capital Partners LLC acquired specialty gift card manufacturer Sterling Card Solutions, according to Sterling’s financial advisor, the investment bank Capstone Headwaters. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Besides gift cards, Sterling makes hotel key cards, identification cards, phone cards, and other products. Half the world’s population, …