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Capital One to acquire Discover: antitrust takes center stage

Download PDF Overview Among companies in the credit card industry, three names always stand out – Visa [NYSE: V], Mastercard [NYSE: MA] and American Express [NYSE: AXP]. However, that may soon change if the deal between Capital One and Discover Financial Services goes through. It was announced on 20th February Read more…

By BSIC, 1 year3 March 2024 ago
Corporate Finance

BBVA sells its US operations to PNC in second-biggest banking deal after the financial crisis

Download PDF BBVA (MCE: BBVA.MC) – market cap as of 27th November 2020: €26.34bn PNC (NYSE: PNC) – market cap as of 27th November 2020: $53.23bn Introduction On November 16th BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank, and PNC Financial Services Group announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for PNC to Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years29 November 2020 ago
Corporate Finance

Nexi – SIA, the newborn Italian champion in the payments industry

Download PDF   Nexi (BIT:NEXI) – market cap as of 30th October 2020: €8.41bn SIA Group – Private Company   Introduction On the 5th of October 2020, Nexi SpA and SIA SpA, two Italian financial companies specialising in payment solutions, announced a €15bn all-share merger, creating an Italian PayTech champion. Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years1 November 2020 ago
Corporate Finance Old Articles

Consolidation in the European Financial Services Sector

Download as PDF European Integration As an introduction, we provide a brief overview of the pan-European regulation on which Financial Services is largely based and which helps explain the convergence and the subsequent attractiveness of the industry towards consolidation. Its objective is the further integration of European countries by the Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years1 March 2020 ago
Corporate Finance Old Articles

Wooing it’s over in financial services: Fidessa has said yes to ION

Fidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA) – market cap as of 04/04/2018: £1.57bn Introduction  On April 20, the board of the UK software company Fidessa has agreed to a £1.5bn all-cash takeover offer from ION, an Ireland-based financial technology company backed by The Carlyle Group. The announcement comes after Fidessa had agreed to be Read more…

By BSIC, 7 years6 May 2018 ago

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