Tracked deals
73
73 tracked deals across 2026.
Tracked deals
73
73 tracked deals across 2026.
Buyer mix
Strategic-led
70 strategic · 6 pe
Top trend
Volume peaked in 2025
94 tracked deals announced in 2025.
Buyer Snapshot
Illustrative buyers pulled from tracked transactions on this page. This table is capped and intentionally non-exhaustive.
| Buyer | # Deals | Focus | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoonPay | 4 | Crypto/fiat value-movement infrastructure provider offeri... | Strategic |
| Airwallex | 2 | Global financial platform providing payment acceptance, b... | Strategic |
| NMI | 2 | Embedded payments infrastructure provider offering a modu... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
| Advent International | 1 | Global private equity investor focused on financial servi... | PE |
| Adyen | 1 | Payments technology platform providing payments capabilit... | Strategic |
| Adyen N.V. | 1 | Global payments technology platform providing end-to-end ... | Strategic |
| AlphaPay | 1 | Canadian payment services business within Payment Asia Gr... | Strategic |
| American Express | 1 | Global payments and premium services company building tec... | Strategic |
| Array US Inc. | 1 | Embeddable fintech platform providing financial, credit, ... | Strategic |
| Autobooks | 1 | Fintech provider integrating invoicing, payments, account... | Strategic |
Last 10 years
Supporting Data
Circle Internet Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Singapore-based Tazapay, a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider. The deal is expected to close in 2027, subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals, including approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
PayNearMe acquired the technology assets and hired key employees of Marr Labs, an AI company that builds agentic solutions for automated voice, messaging, and workflows in complex regulated environments. The deal aims to integrate Marr Labs’ agentic AI expertise into PayNearMe’s Payment Experience Management (PEM) platform to improve the end-to-end payment experience.
OpenPayd finalized its acquisition/integration of MSB USA, bringing 43 U.S. state money transmitter licenses under the OpenPayd group. The expanded regulatory footprint is intended to strengthen OpenPayd’s ability to serve global clients operating in or expanding into the U.S., leveraging compliant payment infrastructure for fiat and digital assets.
Basware signed a binding agreement to acquire Trustpair to extend its Invoice Lifecycle Management platform into payment fraud prevention. The combined solution is positioned to provide end-to-end invoice-to-payment assurance, with Basware validating invoice legitimacy and Trustpair validating that payments go to the intended supplier account.
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (Priority Commerce) announced it entered into a membership interest purchase agreement to acquire IntelliPay. The deal is intended to create Priority Commerce Government, extending Priority Commerce’s enterprise payments business into the public sector (state and local municipalities, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations).
Nayax has agreed to acquire IPS Group, a smart parking technology provider, from Windjammer Capital Investors for $350 million in cash. The deal is intended to expand Nayax’s unattended commerce platform into parking and curb-management services, pairing IPS infrastructure with Nayax’s payments processing and global distribution.
StoneX Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Banco Travelex, expanding its payments and foreign exchange capabilities in Brazil and adding regulated banking infrastructure in an FX market. The deal is expected to expand StoneX’s ability for clients to hold local and foreign currency accounts in Brazil and to roll out products including non-resident accounts and proprietary PIX capabilities, subject to Central Bank of Brazil approval.
Payment Asia Group’s Canadian business, AlphaPay, completed the strategic acquisition and integration of Motion Pay, a Canada-based payment service provider. The deal is accompanied by Payment Asia Group’s newly obtained Canadian Money Services Business (MSB) licence, strengthening its compliance and cross-border payment capabilities in North America.
Citi has agreed to acquire Kard Financial to expand its customer engagement, rewards, and commerce media capabilities. The deal will combine Citi’s payments infrastructure and U.S. cardholder base with Kard’s machine-learning personalization and merchant-funded offer platform.
Pepkor has entered agreements to combine its Flash value-added services distribution business and digital products platform with Shop2Shop to form FintechCo, a South African merchant-focused commerce and financial technology platform. Pepkor will acquire a 57.1% controlling stake by investing R1.57 billion in cash into Shop2Shop and contributing its Flash shares; Shop2Shop shareholders will retain 42.9%.
MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto deposits technology startup, in an all-equity deal announced July 16, 2026. Glide’s routing and self-custodial escrow smart-contract technology is being folded into MoonPay Deposits to reduce onboarding friction for crypto apps. Financial terms were not disclosed, and Glide’s team (including co-founders) is joining MoonPay.
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International reportedly submitted a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings for $60.50 per share, valuing PayPal at more than $53 billion. The proposal would take PayPal private with the two parties each holding an equal stake, and is backed by approximately $50 billion in committed bank financing, though PayPal has not yet responded.
Nium has acquired Cypher, a crypto-native non-custodial wallet and card issuing company, to strengthen its fiat-to-on-chain money movement infrastructure. The deal expands Nium’s ability to extend its security, compliance, and reliability framework from traditional payments to on-chain transactions and accelerate product delivery for crypto-native users.
Telpay, a Canadian business payments company, acquired Notch Financial (Notch), an accounts receivable automation software provider. The deal adds modern invoicing, payment collection, and ordering capabilities to Telpay’s cash flow platform, aiming to provide Canadian businesses a more complete view of money coming in.
Monetary Metals, the global gold yield marketplace platform, acquired TJS USA Inc., a provider of gold asset assurance. The all-share transaction values TJS at $28.5 million and combines Monetary Metals’ gold yield platform with TJS’s in-house technology for verifying and monitoring physical precious metals.
Beehive Group Holdings Limited has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Themar Al Aamal Commercial Company LLC, the holding company behind the SAMA-regulated Saudi debt crowdfunding platform Themar Al Aamal for Crowdfunding Company CJSC. The deal makes Beehive the first digital SME financing platform regulated across three GCC markets (UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia) and is intended to scale regulated SME financing in Saudi Arabia.
SoFi is acquiring Composer, a tool that helps users turn investing ideas into full AI-assisted strategies. SoFi plans to integrate Composer’s strategy-creation workflow into its consumer finance/investing product stack for its 14 million-member base.
Tilt, a cash-flow underwriting and nonprime consumer fintech, completed its acquisition of Blipay, a Brazilian salary-advance lender with more than 6 million registered users. The deal gives Tilt immediate presence in Brazil, expanding its international footprint to a fourth market outside the United States.
PayPoint completed its acquisition of AperiData to strengthen its Open Banking and digital payments capabilities. AperiData provides real-time credit reference and transaction-level financial assessment tools that PayPoint plans to integrate into its multichannel payments services across the UK.
MoonPay has acquired Entendre, a company building AI accounting agents for stablecoin payment and fintech businesses. The acquisition extends MoonPay’s infrastructure into the financial operations layer, automating reconciliation, treasury, and close workflows for high-volume, multi-entity, multi-currency organizations.
Parvis Invest entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of FavorPoint Capital, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The transaction is designed to support Parvis’s expansion into American private markets by giving Parvis’s issuers a regulated FINRA-based distribution pathway to U.S. accredited investors.
Deluxe (NYSE: DLX) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Celero Commerce for $625 million in an all-cash deal, plus certain seller transaction expenses and other adjustments. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating Deluxe’s transformation toward higher-growth Payments and Data segments and modernizing its payments technology infrastructure.
CapitalSage Vantage Limited has signed an agreement to acquire Chi Technologies Inc. (operating as Chimoney), a Toronto-headquartered cross-border payments infrastructure provider, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. The deal is designed to give CapitalSage immediate, regulated Canadian payments infrastructure and accelerate its Africa–Canada corridor ambitions while Chimoney continues operating within the CapitalSage ecosystem post-close.
Adyen entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orb, an enterprise billing and revenue intelligence platform, for $335 million. Orb will operate as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary under an incubator model after closing, with the deal expected to close on July 1, 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.
Levata announced the acquisition of POSDATA Group, a distributor and deployment partner for enterprise payment technologies. The deal extends Levata’s platform with certified payment terminal distribution, encryption key injection, and nationwide deployment and exchange capabilities for enterprise retail and hospitality customers.
Nuvei (privately held, owned by Advent International) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cross-border payments platform Payoneer for approximately $2.75 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal values Payoneer at $7.40 per share and is expected to close in mid-2027, subject to shareholder approval, regulatory clearances, and customary closing conditions.
NMI, a provider of embedded payments infrastructure, announced it has acquired Fee Navigator, an AI-powered pricing intelligence platform for payments companies. Fee Navigator’s technology analyzes merchant statements and recommends optimized pricing strategies for ISOs, ISO agents, ISVs, and other payments partners.
XFolio AI, a Paris-based treasury and cash management technology group, has acquired Absolute Payment Solutions (APS), a Pay.UK-accredited Bacs service provider in the United Kingdom. The deal combines APS’s Bacs infrastructure with XFolio’s treasury technology to deliver an integrated platform for treasury, payments, open banking, risk management, and multi-rail payment connectivity.
Airwallex announced its acquisition of Leapfin, a financial data automation platform focused on revenue recognition and reconciliation. The deal is intended to integrate Leapfin’s technology and AI agents into Airwallex’s platform to help customers close the financial lifecycle from payment acceptance through record-to-report.
MoonPay announced it has acquired and integrated Decent.xyz, a cross-chain routing technology company originally backed by Y Combinator. The acquisition supports MoonPay Trade, a new API platform intended to give applications, financial institutions, and enterprises access to digital assets and onchain liquidity across 200+ blockchains using a unified execution and compliance infrastructure.
Betr acquired Ascent Capital Management, securing National Futures Association (NFA) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registration to expand regulated prediction markets within its gaming super app. The deal makes Betr a CFTC-registered introducing broker, enabling Betr to accelerate plans to launch Polymarket-powered prediction markets inside the Betr app.
NMI, an embedded payments infrastructure provider, announced it has acquired Dwolla, an API-first account-to-account (A2A) payments and real-time/open banking money movement provider. The deal expands NMI’s embedded, white-labeled platform with modern A2A infrastructure, real-time payments, payouts, and related funds-flow capabilities. Dwolla’s CEO, Dave Glaser, will join NMI as Chief Operating Officer, and about 60 Dwolla employees will move to NMI.
National Australia Bank (NAB) announced it has acquired Banked, a fintech that enables businesses and customers to make and receive payments instantly using account-to-account technology. The acquisition is intended to strengthen NAB’s real-time payments capabilities, including “Pay by Bank” transactions that let merchants receive funds directly from customers’ bank accounts.
Payward, Inc. (Kraken’s parent) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Reap Technologies Holdings Limited, a stablecoin-native card issuing and payments infrastructure company, for up to $600 million in cash and Payward stock. The deal expands Payward Services—its B2B financial infrastructure platform—into the global cards and stablecoin payments space, with Reap to continue operating as a standalone platform within Payward’s ecosystem.
Francisco Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Moneris Solutions Corporation, the Canadian commerce solutions and payments processor, from Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) for approximately C$2.0 billion in cash (each bank receives 50%). The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of the banks’ fiscal year 2027. RBC and BMO will also enter into long-term exclusive customer referral arrangements with Moneris upon closing.
Barclays has completed its acquisition of Best Egg, a U.S. direct-to-consumer personal loan origination platform. The deal was executed through Barclays Bank Delaware and adds a scaled, capital-light personal lending capability to Barclays US Consumer Bank, with Best Egg continuing to operate under its existing brand.
Exodus Movement acquired the outstanding shares of Baanx US Corp. and certain other assets for a total purchase price of $30 million ($5 million at transfer of specified assets plus $25 million deferred over four years). Exodus said closing the Baanx US deal completes the final step to integrate Baanx into its self-custodial payments platform at scale.
Bakkt, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of Distributed Technologies Research (DTR), a developer of agentic payments and stablecoin infrastructure. The deal combines Bakkt’s regulated institutional rails and licensing footprint with DTR’s AI-native engine and compliance stack to create an integrated 24/7 digital settlement layer for institutions and fintechs.
MoonPay, a crypto payments network, announced the acquisition of Sodot, a crypto key management infrastructure company, for use as the foundation of MoonPay Institutional. The new business led by former acting CFTC Chairman Caroline D. Pham is designed to provide institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure, including wallet infrastructure and key management, custody, trade execution, liquidity aggregation, and white-label stablecoin issuance.
Western & Southern Financial Group announced it has acquired Till Financial, a fintech platform focused on “family banking” for families raising financially capable kids. The deal expands Western & Southern’s digital, direct-to-consumer strategy and diversifies its portfolio beyond traditional insurance and financial products.
Adyen N.V. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Talon.One GmbH for total consideration of €750 million. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Pushpay announced it will acquire Nurture.io, a pastoral care and engagement platform purpose-built for churches. The acquisition is intended to add an “intelligent pastoral care layer” to Pushpay’s existing portfolio by aggregating engagement and pastoral signals from a church’s tech stack.
Smile Sail has acquired a majority stake in Belgium-based Twikey, a fintech platform that streamlines recurring payments. The investment will support Twikey’s next phase of growth, including global expansion starting with Germany, Scandinavia, and the UK.
Forager Capital Management, LLC, the largest shareholder of Repay Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: RPAY), proposed to acquire 100% of Repay for $4.80 per share in an all-cash transaction. The offer represents a 75% premium to Repay’s 30-day VWAP of $2.75 and would take the public company private, subject to definitive documentation, due diligence, and regulatory approvals.
American Express (Amex) has entered into an agreement to acquire Hypercard (Hyper), an agentic expense management company, to strengthen its AI expertise across its commercial services business. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.
Euronet Worldwide has entered into an agreement to acquire PaynoPain, a Spanish fintech focused on digital-first online payment solutions. The deal is intended to strengthen Euronet’s merchant acquiring footprint in Spain and Portugal and enhance its omnichannel payment capabilities globally, with closing expected in Q3 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.
Maha Capital AB completed its previously announced reverse triangular merger to acquire KEO World, making KEO World a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal adds a fintech credit platform with licenses and technology across Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and broader Latin America, alongside related capital raises of USD 27 million.
Repay Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: RPAY) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kubra Data Transfer Ltd. (KUBRA) for approximately $372 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition combines Repay’s integrated payment processing technology with KUBRA’s bill payment and customer communication management platform serving utilities, government, and insurance across North America.
Shift Connect Ltd., a Canadian foreign exchange and global payments provider, announced it is acquiring Olympia Currency and Global Payments, an Alberta-based international banking and cross-border currency solutions firm. The deal is subject to Bank of Canada approval and customary closing conditions, with completion anticipated on or before March 31, 2026.
Mastercard agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million in contingent payments. The deal is expected to close before year-end (or end of 2026) subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and is aimed at bridging fiat payment rails with blockchain-based stablecoin settlement.
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