Hello Fintech Friends,

In honor of all the overworked startup PR teams trying to get their news out before the Thanksgiving holiday, here are 25 fundraising rounds, 19 M&A transactions, and 2 fintech SPACs announced in the past week.

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Financings

• Gojek, the Indonesian payments and ride-hailing superapp, raised $150 million from the country’s largest telecom.
• Wealth management software provider Addepar raised a $117 million Series E.
• Italian mobile payments firm Satispay raised €93 million from investors including Square (which contributed $18 million) and Tencent.
• Business-to-business payments platform Credit Key raised $33 million.
• Alternative investment platform CAIS raised a $50 million Series B.
• UK challenger bank OakNorth raised $30 million from legacy Sumitomo Mitsui Bank.
• African peer-to-peer payments startup Chipper Cash raised $30 million.
• True Balance, a South Korean fintech that focuses on financial inclusion in India, raised $28 million.
• Renter-landlord billing authorization tech Obligo raised $15.5 million.
• Mati, an identity-sharing API, raised a $13.5 million Series A.
• Personalized employee financial wellness platform Northstar raised $10.7 million.
• Nigerian challenger bank Kuda raised a $10 million seed.
• Cardless, a platform that allows brands to run co-branded card programs, raised $10 million.
• Wholesale and transaction payments platform Modulr raised £9 million from Paypal Ventures.
• Philanthropy fintech Amicus.io raised an $8.7 million Series B.
• UK banking-as-a-service provider Griffin raised £6.5 million.
• European alternative investment platform Mintos crowdfunded €5.3 million.
• Brazilian financial education platform Facio raised a $5 million seed.
• Payments solutions and employee benefits provider Aya raised C$3.7 million.
• Treasury management platform Stanhope Financial raised a $3.5 million round.
• Gold savings and spending startup Glint Pay raised £2.5 million in new funding.
• Juni, a Swedish banking app platform for e-commerce entrepreneurs, raised €2.1 million in seed funding.
• ESG impact reporting firm YvesBlue raised a $2 million seed round.
• Embedded payment platform Infinicept raised an undisclosed round from investors including Mastercard.
• New Zealand SMB cash-flow insights startup Aider raised money from bank ANZ.

Exits and M&A

• PNC Bank will buy the US operations of Spanish bank BBVA in a $11.6 billion deal, in one of the biggest bank M&A deals since the financial crisis. The deal will allow the Spanish bank to fund its acquisition of Banco Sabadell.
• US buy-now-pay-later leader Affirm filed for an IPO that will value the company at up to $10 billion. Read the S-1 here.
• In one of the biggest payments deals of the year, Italian processor Nexi SpA agreed to buy its rival, Nets A/S, to create the largest-volume payments firm in Europe.
• German stock exchange operator Deutsche Borse will acquire 80% of Institutional Shareholder Services for $1.8 billion.
• Swedish digital savings and investment platform Nordnet will go public on Nasdaq Stockholm for $1.1 billion.
• The Department of Justice approved Mastercard’s $825 million Finicity acquisition, after pursuing Visa over Plaid for antitrust.
• Telco Telenor sold cross-device company Tapad to Experian for $280 million.
• Spanish bank Santander bought Wirecard’score European business for €100 million.
• Lottery service provider NeoGames priced an $81.7 million IPO.
• Canadian fintech Mogo will acquire digital payments startup Carta Worldwide in an all-share deal worth C$24.2 million.
• French bank BNP Paribas is considering the sale of its Italian payments unit Axepta.
• Nasdaq will acquire financial crime Saas platform Verafin.
• Payroc acquired merchant payments provider Bluestone Payments.
• Struggling UK lender The Co-operative Bank received a buyout offer from private equity firm Cerberus.
• European banking software provider Sopra Steria is in talks to acquire Fidor Bank’s solutions unit.
• Financial software provider Fenergo is considering a private sale rather than an IPO.
• New Zealand financial technology firm FNZ acquired South African wealth administrator Silica for an undisclosed amount.
• Asset management fund administrator Apex Group received an investment from private equity firm Carlyle Group.
• Financial services insights provider Retail Finance Intelligence received a private equity investment from Diversis Capital.

SPACs

• Far Peak Acquisition, founded by former NYSE President Tom Farley to acquire a fintech, filed for a $550 million IPO.
• Victory Park Capital priced its second SPAC at $150 million.