Visa Acquires Fundamo to Expand Mobile Financial Services

Flutterwave Acquires Mono to Expand Open Banking Infrastructure Across Africa

January 5, 2026

Payments & Fintech

Flutterwave has acquired Mono, a Lagos-based open banking infrastructure provider, to deepen its bank-based and authenticated payment capabilities across African markets. Mono will continue to operate independently while its APIs for financial data access, identity verification, and account-to-account payments are integrated into Flutterwave's payments ecosystem to improve onboarding, reduce fraud, and enable richer bank-enabled payment flows.

Paysafe Acquires viafintech

November 1, 2021

Financial Services

Paysafe Limited has completed its acquisition of German fintech viafintech (brand: viacash), a market-leading bank-independent cash-in/cash-out and alternative payments infrastructure. The deal expands Paysafe's eCash and alternative payments capabilities and accelerates its growth in Germany and other key European markets.

J.P. Morgan Acquires ~49% Stake in Viva Wallet

January 25, 2022

Payments & Fintech

J.P. Morgan announced it will acquire an approximately 49% ownership stake in Viva Wallet Holdings Software Development S.A., a cloud-based European payments fintech headquartered in Athens, Greece. The minority strategic investment (terms undisclosed) is intended to support Viva Wallet’s expansion of localized, omnichannel payments and merchant services across Europe.

Visa Acquires Pismo

January 16, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Visa has completed its acquisition of Pismo, a cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform. The deal expands Visa's capabilities to offer core banking and card-issuer processing via cloud-native APIs to banks, fintechs and marketplaces; Pismo's management team will remain led by CEO Ricardo Josua.

Shift4 Acquires Finaro to Accelerate European Expansion

October 26, 2023

Payments & Fintech

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) has completed its acquisition of Finaro, a cross-border eCommerce payments provider and licensed bank, expanding Shift4's footprint and cross-border commerce capabilities in Europe. The deal brings Finaro's technology and Israel-based engineering talent into Shift4 and will allow the combined company to offer a unified global payments platform for merchants.

Visa Acquires Featurespace

September 26, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Visa has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Featurespace, a Cambridge-based developer of real-time AI payments protection technology that detects and prevents fraud. The acquisition will enhance Visa's fraud detection and risk-scoring capabilities and is expected to close in fiscal year 2025 subject to regulatory approvals.