Lendingkart acqui-hires personal loans startup KountMoney
Indian online lending firm Lendingkart has acqui-hired the team behind personal loans marketplace KountMoney. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Capital One continues FinTech shopping spree with Paribus buy
Capital One is acquiring price tracking startup Paribus in an undisclosed deal. The deal follows the banks’ previous acquisition of startups including Bundle, Level Money and Adaptive Path.
IG Group buys exchange market research portal DailyFX for $40m
Online trading platform IG Group is acquiring news and research portal DailyFX from foreign exchange market broker FXCM.
Meituan-Dianping buys payments startup Qiandai
Chinese group deals and online-to-offline (O2O) platform Meituan-Dianping has acquired payments startup Qiandai.
Metromile parks $103.5m for pay-by-the-mile car insurance
Pay-per-mile car insurance firm Metromile has landed $103.5m in a Series D round of funding. The capital comes from Canadian insurer Intact Financial and China Pacific Insurance (CPIC).
CashFlow scoops up payments firm iCheque
Cambridge-based CashFlow is acquiring fellow Silicon Fen payments solution iCheque Network. The terms of the deal are undisclosed.
Stripe schmoozes developers by chugging down Tonic
Payments provider Stripe is broadening its appeal to developers with the acquisition of node prototyping service Tonic. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed but Tonic is rebranding to Runkit.
Ant Financial ups its biometrics game with $70m EyeVerify buy
Alibaba FinTech subsidiary Ant Financial is boosting its biometric capabilities through the acquisition of Kansas City-based EyeVerify.
zipMoney acquires finance management app Pocketbook
Australian payments and finance app zipMoney is acquiring personal finance management app Pocketbook for $7.5m.
Rakuten snaps up Bitnet assets for blockchain research lab
Japanese tech giant Rakuten is acquiring the assets of Belfast and San Francisco-based startup Bitnet to launch a blockchain research lab.