NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Dear readers,

We're taking a break on Monday for Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but we’ve got a special holiday edition for you revisiting recent stories on a slew of major acquisitions in the payments space.

We’ve reported on six purchases by big-name payment companies and fintechs in just the past two months. Payments processing behemoth Fiserv has been especially active, gobbling up three smaller firms in September alone.

The Milwaukee company announced on Sept. 4 that it bought CardFree, a payments and ordering platform that works with restaurants, hotels and breweries. And in quick succession, Fiserv announced two more deals for the cash manager StoneCastle and the Smith Consulting Group. 

Fiserv has targeted processing for hospitality companies and an expansion in cryptocurrency, two spaces that are hot across the industry.

In the past few months we've also covered FIS's acquisition of the fintech Amount, Synchrony's purchase of software firm Versatile Credit and took note of Jack Henry & Associates buying Victor Technologies. 

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