{"id":2898,"date":"2020-12-31T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/641e9b6dc5f49f232f998c75"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:07:41","slug":"most-impactful-fintech-mas-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qistaging.com\/whitesight\/most-impactful-fintech-mas-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Impactful FinTech M&#038;As of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"Most Impactful FinTech M&amp;As of 2020At Whitesight, we end the year by looking at some of the most impactful (not necessarily the most expensive) M&amp;As of the #Fintech world in 2020. \u201cSoftware is eating the world\u201d \u2013 Marc Andreessen (2011)Software took a mega-bite in the fintech world in 2020Among the top 5 biggest M&amp;A deals of 2020, significant ones include Tech companies \u2013 Plaid, Finicity, Galileo who are enabling the fintech innovation in the sector\u201cSilicon Valley is coming\u201d \u2013 Jamie Dimon (2015)Silicon Valley seem to have arrived in 2020Square acquired Verse to expand to the Spanish market and Stripe acquired PayStack to expand to Africa.Apple acquired Mobeewave to strategically build a 2-sided business model of Payment acceptance and the Apple CardLending Club acquired Radius Bank to become a bank.\u201cEvery company will be a FinTech Company\u201d \u2013 Angela Strange (2019)Firms across industries made strategic moves in their quest to become a fintech company.Non-Financial firms such as Grab, Opera, ZipTel made significant investments to put their best foot forward in finTechIncumbents such as Visa, Mastercard, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, American Express doubled down their fintech bets. \t\t<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tThis post is only available to members.\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read<\/span><\/span> Most Impactful FinTech M&amp;As of 2020At Whitesight, we end the year by looking at some of the most impactful (not necessarily the most expensive) M&amp;As of the #Fintech world in 2020. \u201cSoftware is eating the world\u201d \u2013 Marc Andreessen (2011)Software took a mega-bite in the fintech world in 2020Among the top 5 biggest M&amp;A deals of 2020, significant ones include Tech companies \u2013 Plaid, Finicity, Galileo who are enabling the fintech innovation in the sector\u201cSilicon Valley is coming\u201d \u2013 Jamie Dimon (2015)Silicon Valley seem to have arrived in 2020Square acquired Verse to expand to the Spanish market and Stripe acquired PayStack to expand to Africa.Apple acquired Mobeewave to strategically build a 2-sided business model of Payment acceptance and the Apple CardLending Club acquired Radius Bank to become a bank.\u201cEvery company will be a FinTech Company\u201d \u2013 Angela Strange (2019)Firms across industries made strategic moves in their quest to become a fintech company.Non-Financial firms such as Grab, Opera, ZipTel made significant investments to put their best foot forward in finTechIncumbents such as Visa, Mastercard, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, American Express doubled down their fintech bets. \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tThis post is only available to members.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,88],"tags":[113,54,116],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fintech-strategy","category-insights","tag-global","tag-ma","tag-roundup","membership-content","access-restricted"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - 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