2018-10-12 Payments Deliver Highest M&A Spike After Three Quarters

The payments industry stood out as an active market for mergers and acquisitions during the first three quarters of 2018 with a 33 percent increase in transactions over the same period last year. Berkery Noyes investment bank cited the increase in payments transactions from 30 a year ago to 40 this year as the largest rise in volume of all the market segments it monitored in the third quarter Financial Technology and Information Industry M&A trend report.