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This week we saw YET ANOTHER British challenger bank receive funding this past week (gosh, there's a LOT of challenger banks out there now), plus an interesting new teen-based (you guessed it!) challenger bank out of SF. Also in this week's batch were an ATL-based payments app for e-commerce companies, an API platform for retail banking out of Chicago, and a credit card bill payment app out of India.

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction which values IHS Markit at an enterprise value of $44 billion, including $4.8 billion of net debt.

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FMG Suite, a SaaS company specializing in marketing software and services for financial advisors and insurance agents, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Twenty Over Ten, a company delivering a SaaS-based digital marketing platform for financial professionals.

Steve Ehrlich is the CEO and Co-Founder of Voyager Digital LLC, a publicly traded crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets.

Competition for new banking customers between large established traditional banks and the new 'challenger' (a/k/a digital banks) banks has taken a new twist. Challenger banks like Starling, Revolut, Chime and others have "attacked" the traditional banking industry with little or no fees, innovative services and products, easy to use apps and no branches

Prime Trust, the leading B2B financial infrastructure platform for payments, custody and settlement of alternative assets, announced today the launch of Prime Liquidity – a turnkey API-based liquidity engine that enables any fintech app to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrency.

You would think that with last week's Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, muted as it was due to the pandemic, we would have seen slowed down deal activity in the fintech sector. Turns out that assumption would be WRONG, and we still saw deal closings, believe it or not, with one that topped $300M(!!) and three more topped the $100M+ figure.

The CEO of international financial advisory deVere Group, Nigel Green, has recently issued a statement noting that anecdotally, the firm is experiencing unusually high numbers of clients requesting assistance with its citizen and residency service.

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