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Mergers and acquisitions covers the deals that change who owns fintech infrastructure: acquisitions, mergers, take-privates, majority stakes and the divestitures that follow them. Fintechbits tracks the terms where they are disclosed, the regulatory approvals a deal still needs, and what happens after close, which is usually where the story is: the platform migrations, the products quietly discontinued and the customers who leave rather than be migrated. Coverage includes strategic buyers such as Fiserv, FIS, Visa and Mastercard, the private equity firms consolidating payment processors, and the distressed sales that follow a round nobody could raise. Funding rounds are not deals in this sense and belong under funding. A deal is covered here and on the hub for the market it consolidates.

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Consensys MetaMask split separating the consumer wallet from institutional blockchain infrastructure
Consensys splits in two, separating the MetaMask consumer wallet from its institutional infrastructure business

Corporate Acquisitions—Charitarth Sindhu—September 12, 2026

The Consensys MetaMask split turns one company into two by the end of 2026. The existing legal entity rebrands entirely as MetaMask. That consumer self-custodial wallet has passed 100 million downloads across roughly 190 countries. Meanwhile a newly formed company keeps the Consensys name. It takes the Protocols Group, the institutional infrastructure business built around

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Mbanq funding note backed by a Swiss private bank
Mbanq Lands Its First Institutional Buyer for a New $100 Million Funding Note

July 27, 2026

Mbanq funding note just found its first institutional backer. Mbanq, the US-based banking infrastructure and embedded finance vendor, said a leading Swiss private bank has made the inaugural investment into a new institutional funding program built to bankroll its lending and Earned Wage Access business. The notes are listed on the Open Market of the

Dilosk Pepper Advantage deal in Irish mortgage lending
Dilosk Sale to Pepper Advantage Is a Quiet Consolidation Story in Irish Mortgages

July 27, 2026

Dilosk Pepper Advantage is the kind of deal that reshapes a market without making noise. Dilosk DAC, the Irish mortgage lender known by its ICS Mortgages brand, has agreed to be acquired by Pepper Advantage, the international credit management platform wholly owned by private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. Terms were not disclosed. Once

Octus MCP Connector for credit intelligence inside LLMs
Octus Joins the MCP Land Rush for Credit Data, a Little Late but With Real Substance

July 17, 2026

Octus MCP Connector is the company's answer to a question every financial data vendor is now facing. Octus, the credit intelligence platform used by financial, legal, and advisory firms tracking distressed debt and private credit, has launched a connector that lets subscribers query its data directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any other large language model

CSI Qolo acquisition for community bank embedded finance
CSI Buys Qolo to Give Community Banks a Real Embedded Finance Story

July 16, 2026

CSI Qolo is a deal about what community banks cannot build themselves. CSI, the core banking technology vendor that has spent recent years buying its way into a fuller product stack, has acquired Qolo, a payments infrastructure company that builds real-time ledgers, multi-rail payment orchestration, and card issuing for banks and fintechs. Terms were not

Banyan WIZE majority investment in Geneva wealth platform
Banyan Software Buys Into WIZE, a Wealth Management Platform Most of the Industry Has Never Heard Of

July 15, 2026

Banyan WIZE is a deal about quiet, entrenched software. Banyan Software has completed a majority investment in WIZE, a Geneva-based wealth and asset management software platform serving more than 120 financial institutions across 27 countries, including external asset managers, family offices, private banks, pension funds, and institutional investors. Founded in 2010 and incubated inside TeamWork

Account takeover confidence gap at financial institutions
Banks Think They Are Protected From Account Takeover. Their Own Survey Says Otherwise

July 10, 2026

Account takeover confidence at financial firms sits far above the evidence supporting it. Secret Double Octopus, a passwordless authentication vendor, published its 2026 State of Identity Security in Financial Organizations report this week, based on a survey of 200 identity and access management leaders at US and Canadian financial services firms. The topline is a

InvoiceCloud CentralSquare digital payments for government
InvoiceCloud CentralSquare: Powerful 8,000-Customer Reach

July 4, 2026

InvoiceCloud CentralSquare partnership targets a slow corner of digital payments: government. On July 1, 2026, the two companies announced an alliance to modernize billing and payments for governments and utilities across North America. A pre-built integration connects InvoiceCloud's payments platform with CentralSquare's public administration software. The InvoiceCloud CentralSquare pitch is simpler payments for residents and

MSCI acquires First Street climate risk data for global properties
MSCI Acquires First Street: When Climate Risk Data Becomes Financial Infrastructure

June 28, 2026

MSCI acquires First Street. On the surface, this is a $120 million data acquisition by a $42 billion index and analytics company. At a deeper level, it is the moment financial services formally acknowledged that the physical consequences of climate change are no longer a sustainability-reporting footnote but a core input into investment underwriting, credit

Adyen acquires Orb billing platform in a $335 million payments deal
Adyen Acquires Orb for $335 Million: Adyen Is Not Buying Scale. It Is Buying Visibility.

June 22, 2026

Adyen acquires Orb for $335 million. That is the headline from Amsterdam on June 11, 2026, and it reads, at first glance, like a routine fintech infrastructure deal: a large payments processor buys a smaller billing platform. It is not. Adyen acquires Orb to solve the most consequential unsolved problem in enterprise payments: the structural

A dark blue cover image for a Fintechbits article featuring the Kaiko and Amberdata logos in white, above a headline that reads "Kaiko Acquires Amberdata in Landmark Digital Asset Data Consolidation."
Kaiko Acquires Amberdata: 3 Massive Impacts on Digital Assets

June 3, 2026

Kaiko Acquires Amberdata in a landmark digital assets deal! There is a principle in financial markets that predates fintech, crypto, and most of what we call modern capital markets: the firm that controls the data controls the market. Bloomberg built a $10 billion business on it. Refinitiv, sold to the London Stock Exchange Group for

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