Xero to Acquire Melio to Accelerate Global Growth

MoonPay Acquires Helio

January 13, 2025

Payments & Fintech

MoonPay has acquired blockchain payment processor Helio for $175 million. The deal integrates Helio’s Solana-powered checkout technology into MoonPay’s payments infrastructure to expand its crypto merchant payment capabilities across e-commerce platforms like Shopify and Discord.

Papaya Global Acquires Azimo

March 28, 2022

Financial Services

Papaya Global has agreed to acquire Azimo, the London-based digital cross-border payments service, to expand its payroll payments capabilities and gain multiple payment licences and a global payment network. The deal will bring Azimo's payment licences (UK, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong) and its team into Papaya, enabling faster, near-instant payments to global employees and new payroll-related services for Papaya customers.

Mollie To Acquire GoCardless

December 14, 2025

Payments & Fintech

Mollie has signed an agreement to acquire bank payments company GoCardless to create a unified European payments and bank payment platform. The combined platform will combine card payments, local payment methods, and bank payments under a single provider and is expected to be finalized in mid-2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

Xero Acquires Planday for €183.5M

March 8, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Xero, the New Zealand-founded cloud accounting platform, has agreed to acquire Danish staff rota and workforce management SaaS provider Planday for €183.5 million (€155.7m upfront plus up to €27.8m earnout). The deal is expected to close in March 2022 and aims to integrate Planday’s scheduling and workforce tools into Xero’s small-business ecosystem to drive product capability expansion and revenue growth across key European markets.

Celero Commerce Acquires Finical

October 11, 2023

Payments & Fintech

Nashville-based Celero Commerce has acquired Dallas-based Finical, a provider of electronic payments technology for small and mid-sized businesses. The deal expands Celero's capabilities and scale in payments processing — bringing its pro forma annual card volume to roughly $25 billion — and marks Celero's tenth acquisition since launching in 2018.

PairSoft Acquires Nimbello to Expand AI-Powered Procure-to-Pay Automation

March 19, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

PairSoft, an AI-driven procure-to-pay and financial automation provider, acquired Nimbello, an accounts payable automation and payments platform focused on purchase-order-based invoice matching. The acquisition is intended to strengthen PairSoft’s native ERP integrations and improve purchase-order matching and AI-driven invoice processing.