PayX Bulletin – Diebold and Wincor Nixdorf combine in $1.8 billion takeover

Companies have entered into a business combination agreement in which Diebold will launch a voluntary public tender offer for all of Wincor Nixdorf’s outstanding shares   Brings together leading global innovators in banking and retail technologies in rapidly transforming industries   Combined company will deliver fully integrated and transformative solutions in value-added services, branch automation…

PayX Bulletin – ACI Worldwide Acquires PAY.ON

With PAY.ON, ACI bolsters end-to-end eCommerce payments capabilities, delivering the most complete omni-channel payments experience   4 November 2015 – ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, and PAY.ON, a leader in eCommerce payment gateway services, today announced that they have entered into a definitive transaction agreement. Under the terms…

FIS buys Clear2Pay

FIS acquires Clear2Pay

The Payments Industry acquisition trail continues with yet another large multi-billion revenue player cherry picking off a smaller product company with modern technology and existing complementary tier 1 customer base: Key Facts – FIS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Brussels-based Clear2Pay. – The addition of Clear2Pay will bolster FIS’ global payments capabilities across…

ATM Marketplace on the PayX Report – Who’s on first and who will lead down the stretch …

Article by Richard Buckle The papers this week have been full of stories about baseball trades, as teams review their prospects for the post-season. Traditional powerhouses are looking over their shoulders at perennial challengers while teams that have never tasted the “big leagues” look on longingly. It was against this background that I finally got…

Core Business

Getting ‘back to core business’

Over the last 4 years we have seen the payments industry in “disruptive change”. Well established organisations have all been challenged by alternative players and all are moving through change cycle stages with varying degrees of speed and success. What appears to be most interesting now is that several of the established players are reaching…