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Provident Financial Services | March 12, 2020

Provident Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: PFS), the parent company of Provident Bank, and SB One Bancorp (NASDAQ: SBBX), the parent company of SB One Bank, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Provident will acquire SB One. The combined organization will have approximately $12 billion in assets and will rank as the 3rd largest bank headquartered in New Jersey. The merger brings together two high-performing companies with complementary geogra...

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Shift4 | March 03, 2022

Shift4, a leading integrated payment and technology solutions provider, announces that it will acquire Finaro, a popular cross-border eCommerce payments provider, and The Giving Block, a specializer in cryptocurrency fundraising for nonprofits. These acquisitions are Shift4’s ambitious goals to pursue a multi-trillion-dollar marketplace worldwide. The marketplace includes stadiums, eCommerce, restaurants, gaming, hospitality, charitable donations, specialty retail to accelerate growth in t...

PAYMENTS, FINTECH

Volante Technologies | January 19, 2023

Volante Technologies, one of the world's leading providers of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions to promote digital transformation, has been named Best Wholesale Payment Solutions Provider at the Global Brands Awards 2022. In addition to supporting today's most complex payment operations at scale, Volante's real-time, multi-rail, ISO 20022-fluent payments-as-a-service (PaaS) boasts superior security and minimal risk. Volante's PaaS is built on cloud...

Plastiq | March 27, 2020

Plastiq, a US startup that lets SMEs pay any bill by credit card, has raised $75 million in a Series D funding round led by B Capital Group. Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, Accomplice and Top Tier Capital Partners, all previous investors, also participated in the round, bringing Plastiq's total funding to date to more than $140 million. Plastiq enables SMEs to use their credit cards for virtually any expense, even where plastic isn't accepted, helping users to maximize the working capi...