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I need a list of all fintech lending acquisitions over the past 5 years.
Hi there, and thanks for asking Wonder! I understand that you'd like a comprehensive list of fintech lending acquisitions over the past 5 years. In short, my research discovered 31 such acquisitions, including eight by PayPal. For ease of readability, I have organized that information in a spreadsheet. All sources are included in the spreadsheet.
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For this request, I only included acquisitions by, or of, companies which directly provide lending services. I also included only acquisitions closed by today's date, five years ago - that is, by June 20th, 2012. I researched acquisitions specific to both lending and to fintech separately, so as to avoid missing companies which were designated by only one of these descriptors.
I utilized third-party information provider Crunchbase as my primary resource, as it is one of the most comprehensive third-party information providers on investments and acquisitions. However, the Crunchbase acquisitions search function does not have a filtering mechanism by industry or keyword, so my search ability was limited to search site x-ray search of the entire Crunchbase website. Therefore, while I can confidently say that these 31 acquisitions comprise the totality of the acquisitions I was able to find using available tools, it is possible that there are others which are not recorded by Crunchbase. I did include a search for pre-compiled lists of fintech acquisitions in my initial research, as well as a search for other comprehensive acquisition databases, but this strategy did not generate any such lists or databases.
Please note that information on acquisition amount, terms, and acquired company valuation is not available in public sources for most of the listed acquisitions, the latter of which makes a multiple calculation unattainable. Per due diligence, I researched press releases related to those acquisitions which did not have this information in their Crunchbase profiles, but this strategy generated additional information on only a few company.
Thanks so much for asking Wonder, and please let us know if there is anything else we can research for you!