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According to data published by Financial Technology Partners, the $10.9b of fintech-focused financing volume in Q2 2019 made it the second most active quarter ever. Additionally, through the first half of 2019, global fintech M&A volume of $148b is already at a full-year record high, surpassing the 2015 mark of $138b.
Q2 2019 Highlights + Financing volume in Q2 2019 reached $10.9 billion, making it the second largest quarter ever (when excluding Ant Financial’s $14 billion financing round in Q2 2018, Q2 2019 is actually the largest quarter ever) + After a record breaking 2018 with $53.8 billion in volume, 2019 is trending towards another strong year, potentially the second highest behind 2018 + North America and Europe are both on track to reach record levels in terms of total financing volume – Europe has already exceeded the volume from last year at $5.8 billion in H1 2019 + M&A volume in Q2 2019 of $35.6 billion increased the total volume for 2019 YTD to a record annual level ($148.3 million) – surpassing 2015 which had $138.3 billion + 2019 so far has had three of the four largest FinTech M&A transactions ever, all three representing acquisitions of large payment processors: - FIS’ $43 billion acquisition of Worldpay - Fiserv’s $41 billion acquisition of First Data - Global Payments’ $25 billion acquisition of TSYS
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