The following is an excerpt from today’s Global Newsletter.
As Jason Mikula predicted on June 1, FIS has acquired embedded finance startup Bond in a deal where terms were not touted in a splashy press release.
While silent acquisitions often indicate a distressed sale, the incumbent core banking provider likely realized they needed to get into BaaS and probably bought Bond for their tech to be more agile. It may also be the attraction of the expedited route: buy the plug-and-play solution rather than spend many months developing one in-house.
This latest acquisition shows fintech M&A is getting hotter, with more activity in recent weeks.
Bond may have been struggling to raise money, so this would also be a good outcome for them, though we do not yet know the whole story.
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| FIS acquires banking-as-a-service startup Bond By Mary Ann Azevedo and Ingrid Lunden San Francisco-based fintech infrastructure startup Bond was valued at $182 million the last time it raised money, in 2020. |
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