2019

Thunder Bridge acquires REPAY for $653 million
Featurespace raises $32 million in venture capital

2018

BitPay raises $40 million in venture capital
BMW acquires Parkmobile
Cardlytics completes $70 million IPO in February 2018
Ebix acquires Transcorp Int’l and Centrum Direct
Elavon acquires Electronic Transaction Systems
EVO Payments completes $244 million IPO in May 2018
Fattmerchant raises $10.5 million in venture capital Led by Fulcrum Partners
Greenlight raises $20 million in venture capital
GreenSky completes $874 million IPO in May 2018
Kabbage acquires Orchard Platform Markets
NCR acquires payment processor JetPay for $184 million
Patientco raises $28 million in venture capital from Accel-KKR

2017
BitPay raises $30 million in venture capital
Cardlytics raises $12 million in venture capital
Ebix acquires ItzCash, via.com, Paul merchants
Equifax acquires ID Watchdog
EVO Payments acquired Sterling Payment Technologies
Exela acquires TransCentra
First Data acquires Acculynk, BluePay, and CardConnect
First Performance Global raises $17.5 million in venture capital
Fleetcor acquires Cambridge Global Payments
Fiserv acquires Dovetail, Monetise, PCLender
GreenSky raises $200 million in venture capital
InterContinental Exchange acquires eVestment
Kabbage raises $250 million in venture capital
TSYS acquires Cayan
Urjanet raises $20 million in venture capital
Vantiv acquires Paymetric
Vantiv acquires Worldpay, adopts the Worldpay name

2016
Alogent spun out as standalone private company from Jack Henry
Bridge2Solutions raises $35 million in venture capital
Ebix acquires WDev
Equifax acquires Barnett Associates
FactorTrust raises $17 million in venture capital
Fiserv acquires Online Banking Solutions
GreenSky raises $50 million in venture capital
Global Payments acquires Heartland and eWay
Incomm acquires ValuAccess
Ingo Money raises $12 million in venture capital
InterContinental Exchange acquires Bondpoint
NCR acquires Cimplebox
TransUnion acquires FactorTrust
TSYS acquires TransFirst

2015
Equifax acquires Veda Advantage
First Data completes $3 billion IPO
First Data acquires Transaction Wireless
Global Payments acquires Realex Payments
Payscape acquires Vendevor
Priority Payment Systems acquires American Credit Card Processing

Earlier Notable Deals

2014
Fleetcor acquires Comdata
NCR acquires Digital Insight

2013
ACI acquires Official Payments
Digital insight taken private from Intuit by Thoma Bravo
TSYS acquires Netspend

2012
First Data acquires Clover

2011
ACI acquires S1
Deluxe acquires Bankers Dashboard

2009
Goldleaf acquired by Jack Henry

2008
Alogent acquired by Goldleaf Financial Solutions
LexisNexis acquires ChoicePoint

2007
First Data taken private by KKR
Fiserv acquires CheckFree
Intuit acquired Digital Insight
TSYS fully spun off by Synovus

2006
FIS acquires Certegy

2001
Equifax spins off payments business as Certegy
National Data Corp spins off payments business as Global Payments
US Bank acquires Nova (2001), eventually rebrands it as Elavon

1999
Digital Insight completes IPO

1997
Equifax spins off ChoicePoint

1996
CheckFree acquires Servantis, relocates corporate headquarters to Atlanta

1995
First Data merges with First Financial Management Corp