Payments & Fintech Acquisitions in 2026
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March 20, 2026
- Buyer
- Mastercard
- Target
- BVNK
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Type
- Buyout
Mastercard entered into a definitive agreement to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK for a deal valued at up to $1.8 billion, including $300 million in contingent payments. The acquisition is intended to expand Mastercard’s stablecoin payments infrastructure and interoperability between traditional fiat systems and blockchain networks, with closing expected before year-end subject to regulatory approvals.
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March 13, 2026
- Buyer
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Target
- Pinch Financial Incorporated
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Type
- Buyout
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced it has acquired Toronto-based fintech Pinch Financial Incorporated, which provides mortgage qualification technology to streamline the home loan application process for Canadians. RBC plans to integrate Pinch’s digital platform to accelerate its digital mortgage strategy, enabling faster approvals and a more transparent, seamless qualification experience.
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- Buyer
- Ramp
- Target
- Billhop
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Sweden
- Type
- Buyout
Ramp, a financial operations platform, announced it has acquired Billhop, a Stockholm- and London-based licensed payments infrastructure platform. The deal is intended to strengthen Ramp’s ability to support customers operating across the UK and Europe, including by opening Ramp’s first international offices in London and Stockholm and onboarding UK/EU-headquartered businesses directly this summer.
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March 13, 2026
- Buyer
- Shift4
- Target
- Bambora Inc, Bambora Holding Corp, Bambora Corp, Worldline SMB US, Inc.
- Seller
- Worldline
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- United States
- Type
- Buyout
Shift4 completed its previously announced acquisition of Worldline’s North American subsidiaries, operating as Bambora North America. The deal adds Bambora Inc, Bambora Holding Corp, Bambora Corp, and Worldline SMB US, Inc., expanding Shift4’s merchant base to more than 140,000 merchants across the United States and Canada.
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March 11, 2026
- Buyer
- Bilt
- Target
- Sion
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- New York, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Bilt, a housing-focused membership platform, acquired Sion, a travel commission management platform, for $30 million. The deal adds Sion’s technology and team to help integrate travel advisor workflows—such as commission reconciliation and invoice follow-up automation—into Bilt’s travel rewards ecosystem.
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March 6, 2026
- Buyer
- BillDesk
- Target
- Worldline Indian payment activities
- Seller
- Worldline
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- India
- Type
- Divestiture
Worldline announced the strategic sale of its Indian payment activities to BillDesk for an enterprise value of approximately €37 million (with an estimated equity value at closing of ~€60 million). The deal also includes a long-term technology and software agreement under which BillDesk will continue leveraging Worldline’s payment software. Closing is anticipated in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.
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March 5, 2026
- Buyer
- Bitcoin Depot
- Target
- Kutt
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Georgia, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Bitcoin Depot announced it has acquired Kutt, a peer-to-peer social betting platform, marking Bitcoin Depot’s first entry into the P2P social betting market. The deal expands Bitcoin Depot’s fintech product portfolio beyond its core Bitcoin ATM business while allowing Kutt to continue operating under its existing brand and leadership.
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March 4, 2026
- Buyer
- Xsolla
- Target
- Wetaps Corporation
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Vietnam
- Type
- Buyout
Xsolla announced the acquisition of Wetaps Corporation, a Ho Chi Minh City-based video game publisher focused on regulatory coverage and local support for co-publishing in Vietnam. Along with the acquisition, Xsolla launched Merchant of Record (MoR) services in Vietnam, positioning itself as the first licensed MoR for games in the country.
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February 22, 2026
- Buyer
- Visa
- Target
- Prisma, Newpay
- Seller
- Advent International, Group Prisma
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Argentina
- Type
- Buyout
Advent International entered into a definitive agreement to sell Prisma and Newpay, subsidiaries of Group Prisma, to Visa. Advent will retain ownership of Payway, which will continue operating as a standalone growth platform under Advent as the transaction progresses toward a first-quarter 2026 close.
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- Buyer
- RevSpring
- Target
- TrustCommerce
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Tennessee, United States
- Type
- Buyout
RevSpring, a healthcare financial engagement and payments platform, acquired TrustCommerce, an integrated healthcare payment and security solutions provider. The deal is intended to expand RevSpring’s integrated payments scale and improve end-to-end payment visibility across the revenue cycle by combining TrustCommerce’s enterprise gateway connectivity with RevSpring’s payments and financial engagement platform.
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February 19, 2026
- Buyer
- Rezolve Ai PLC
- Target
- Reward (Reward Loyalty UK Limited)
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- England, United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
Rezolve Ai PLC (NASDAQ: RZLV) has acquired 100% of Reward (Reward Loyalty UK Limited) for $230 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal adds a profitable, scaled loyalty and commerce-media platform embedded across major banks and retailers, advancing Rezolve Ai's AI-commerce and payments strategy and providing immediate EBITDA-accretive revenue.
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February 18, 2026
- Buyer
- Edison Partners
- Target
- Payra
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Tennessee, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Payra, an ERP-native accounts receivable and cash application automation platform for construction and industrial suppliers, raised a $15 million growth equity investment from Edison Partners. The funding is intended to expand Payra’s product capabilities, deepen ERP integration partnerships, and scale go-to-market efforts across construction and industrial verticals.
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February 10, 2026
- Buyer
- Wrisk Limited
- Target
- Atto
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Buyout
Wrisk Limited has acquired Atto, a real-time financial intelligence platform that uses open banking to provide credit scoring, income verification, affordability assessment and behavioural insight. The deal integrates Atto's decisioning capabilities into Wrisk's embedded finance and protection platform to enable more personalised, context-aware finance and insurance journeys for automotive OEMs and other enterprise partners; Atto will continue to operate as a dedicated product and team within Wrisk.
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February 4, 2026
- Buyer
- Lightyear Capital
- Target
- PayByPhone
- Seller
- Corpay
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada
- Type
- Buyout
Lightyear Capital has signed an agreement to acquire PayByPhone, a global provider of mobile parking payments and parking management software, from Corpay. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals, and PayByPhone will operate as a stand-alone independent business under Lightyear’s ownership.
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January 29, 2026
- Buyer
- Telos Labs
- Target
- Flourish Fi
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Telos Labs, a Berkeley-based digital product studio focused on AI and fintech, has acquired Flourish Fi, a behavioral loyalty and financial-engagement platform. The deal brings Flourish's behavioral data models and engagement platform into Telos' AI and fintech practice, with Flourish co-founder Pedro Moura joining Telos as an Operating Partner to continue supporting existing clients.
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- Buyer
- SUNRATE
- Target
- Experienced payments team and acquiring systems (unnamed)
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Type
- Buyout
SUNRATE, a Singapore-headquartered payment and treasury management platform, has acquired an experienced payments team along with its acquiring systems and book of business to launch a new Global Acquiring business unit. The move expands SUNRATE's end-to-end payments stack — adding merchant acquiring, global card scheme connectivity, local payment methods, fraud and compliance capabilities — to serve cross-border eCommerce, online education, gaming, travel and retail clients.
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January 25, 2026
- Buyer
- Acumatica
- Target
- CoreChain Technologies
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Connecticut, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Acumatica announced it will acquire B2B payments provider CoreChain Technologies, announced during the Day 1 Keynote at Acumatica Summit 2026 in Seattle. The deal is intended to bring CoreChain’s blockchain payment network in-house to enable embedded “Supply Chain Finance” within Acumatica’s ERP workflows.
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January 23, 2026
- Buyer
- Airwallex
- Target
- Paynuri Co. Ltd.
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Seoul, South Korea
- Type
- Buyout
Airwallex has acquired South Korea-based Paynuri Co. Ltd., securing local payment gateway, prepaid electronic payment instrument licenses and a foreign exchange business registration to launch payments and FX services in Korea. The deal gives Airwallex a licensed foundation to introduce global business accounts and payment acquiring locally as it expands its Korea team and broader Asia-Pacific footprint.
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- Buyer
- PayPal Holdings, Inc.
- Target
- Cymbio
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Israel
- Type
- Buyout
PayPal announced it has agreed to acquire Cymbio, a multi-channel orchestration platform that helps brands sell across “agentic” AI shopping surfaces and other e-commerce channels. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2026 and is intended to strengthen PayPal’s agentic commerce capabilities, including Store Sync, which makes merchants’ product catalogs discoverable on AI platforms while routing orders into merchants’ fulfillment systems.
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January 20, 2026
- Buyer
- Remote
- Target
- Atlas
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- United States
- Type
- Buyout
Remote has acquired Atlas, an expense management and corporate card platform built for distributed workforces, to embed expense, card and employee financial tooling into Remote’s global HR and payroll platform. Atlas’s AI-native approach to employee spending, global cards, stipend management and localized benefits (across markets such as the U.S., Mexico, Colombia and Argentina) will expand Remote’s product capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed.
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January 13, 2026
- Buyer
- Polygon Labs
- Target
- Coinme, Sequence
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- United States
- Type
- Buyout
Polygon Labs has closed deals to acquire Coinme and Sequence for a total price of more than $250 million, supporting its stablecoin strategy and regulated U.S. stablecoin payments. Coinme brings money-transmitter licenses and fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramp capabilities across the U.S., while Sequence provides wallet infrastructure and cross-chain orchestration for the Polygon Open Money Stack.
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January 7, 2026
- Buyer
- SmartMoving
- Target
- Remedy Payments
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
SmartMoving, a Dallas-based operations and profitability platform for moving companies, has acquired Remedy Payments, an embedded payments provider for the moving and storage industry. The acquisition brings Remedy’s payments infrastructure into SmartMoving’s core platform for deeper integration, improved cash flow and streamlined invoicing; Remedy’s CEO Alex Dimitracopoulos will join SmartMoving’s executive team.
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January 6, 2026
- Buyer
- Solutions by Text
- Target
- Triple Play Pay
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Solutions by Text (SBT) has acquired Triple Play Pay (TPP) to expand its FinText payments and embedded commerce capabilities, combining SBT's compliance-first conversational commerce with TPP's payment orchestration and PayFac onboarding capabilities. The deal (terms undisclosed) adds ACH, card, and mobile wallet acceptance, faster merchant onboarding, fraud and transaction monitoring, and enhanced reporting to SBT's platform to accelerate embedded payments for consumer finance customers.
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- Buyer
- Flutterwave
- Target
- Mono
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Lagos State, Nigeria
- Type
- Buyout
Flutterwave has acquired Mono, a Lagos-based open banking infrastructure provider, to deepen its bank-based and authenticated payment capabilities across African markets. Mono will continue to operate independently while its APIs for financial data access, identity verification, and account-to-account payments are integrated into Flutterwave's payments ecosystem to improve onboarding, reduce fraud, and enable richer bank-enabled payment flows.
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- Buyer
- PROG Holdings, Inc.
- Target
- Purchasing Power
- Industry
- Payments & Fintech
- Location
- Georgia, United States
- Type
- Buyout
PROG Holdings, the fintech holding company for Progressive Leasing, Four Technologies and Build, completed its previously announced acquisition of Purchasing Power for $420 million in cash. Purchasing Power becomes a wholly owned subsidiary, expanding PROG’s employer-channel reach via a payroll-integrated voluntary employee benefit platform.
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