2019

Global Payments announced its planned acquisition of TSYS for $21.5 billion
FIS announced its planned acquisition of Worldpay for $43 billion (including assumption of debt)
Fiserv announced its planned acquisition of First Data for $22 billion
Payscape merges with NXGEN
IDology acquired by GBG for $300 million
Kabbage raises $700 million in debt financing
Thunder Bridge acquires REPAY for $653 million
Featurespace raises $32 million in venture capital
FLEETCOR acquires Nvoicepay

2018

Bakkt raises $183 million in venture capital (December)
Q2 acquires Gro Solutions (December)
NCR acquires JetPay (October)
Fiserv acquires the debit card processing, MoneyPass Network and ATM management operations of US Bank’s Elan unit (September)
Elavon acquires Electronic Transaction Systems (September)
Patientco raises $28 million in venture capital from Accel-KKR (August)
PPRO Group raises $50 million in venture capital (July)
Fattmerchant raises $10.5 million in venture capital Led by Fulcrum Partners (July)
GreenSky completes $874 million IPO (May)
EVO Payments completes $244 million IPO (May)
Ebix acquires Transcorp Int’l and Centrum Direct
BitPay raises $40 million in venture capital (April)
Kabbage acquires Orchard Platform Markets (April)
Cardlytics completes $70 million IPO (February)
Greenlight raises $20 million in venture capital (February)
BMW acquires Parkmobile (January)

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 in venture capital and $700 million in debt financing
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

Earlier Notable Deals

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

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