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      • PayPal Targets Customer Acquisition With Purchase of Start-Up Iron Pearl
        By Jonathan Camhi | April 12, 2013
        PayPal has acquired Iron Pearl, a California-based start-up specializing in customer acquisition and engagement, and formed a new growth team to expand its customer base.
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      • Sterling, Provident Banks To Merge
        By Bryan Yurcan | April 04, 2013
        The newly combined bank will have nearly $7 billion in total assets.
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      • Q&A: Core Systems Transformation Best Practices In A Changing Landscape
        By Jonathan Camhi | March 27, 2013
        Marcia Wakeman, partner, and Chia-Hsin Chung, managing principal, of financial services IT consultancy Capco discuss trends they are seeing in core systems replacement efforts and the best practices to consider when undertaking a core transformation effort.
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      • Bank Closures Slow in Beginning of 2013 Compared to Last Year
        By Jonathan Camhi | March 26, 2013
        Only four banks have closed so far in 2013 compared to 15 through the first three months of last year.
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      • Temenos Acquires U.S. SAAS Core Banking Provider TriNovus
        By Jonathan Camhi | March 22, 2013
        Swiss core banking vendor Temenos announced it is acquiring TriNovus to further its growth strategy in the U.S. to provide a SAAS version of its T24 core banking solution.
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      • State-Free Bank Safety Net Still Work in Progress: Regulators
        By Huw Jones, Reuters | March 13, 2013
        Reforms to the world's financial system still fall short of ensuring that big and systemically important banks will not need to be bailed out by governments if they fail, regulators say.
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      • What Banks Need To Know About Vendor M&AsSlideshow Article
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | February 22, 2013
        Consolidation among players in the bank technology vendor space is heating up again. What factors are driving this trend, and how will it affect their bank customers?
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      • Citi to Buy Capital One Best Buy Card Portfolio
        By Bryan Yurcan | February 19, 2013
        Citi will pay $7 billion to acquire Capital One's Best Buy private label and co-branded credit card accounts.
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      • Japan's Orix to Buy Rabobank Asset Management Arm for About $2.6 Billion
        By Emi Emoto, Reuters | February 15, 2013
        Japanese financial services firm Orix Corp will buy Dutch asset manager Robeco from its owner Rabobank for about 240 billion yen ($2.6 billion) in a cash and stock deal, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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      • Oracle to Buy Network Gear Maker Acme Packet for About $2 Billion
        By Reuters | February 04, 2013
        Oracle Corp agreed to buy Acme Packet Inc, which makes network equipment to speed up voice, video and data delivery across networks, for about $2 billion.
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      • Fintech M&A Keeps On Coming
        By Bryan Yurcan | February 01, 2013
        Two more significant acquisitions were announced this week in the financial services technology space.
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      • Bank Tech Vendor Shakeup Continues: FIS to Acquire mFoundry
        By Kathy Burger | January 31, 2013
        Bank tech giant previously held 22% interest in mobile solutions vendor; sees deal as opportunity to leverage technology assets across broader client base.
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      • Webster Bank Names New CIO
        By Kathy Burger | January 18, 2013
        Colin Eccles, former CIO at Umpqua, will focus on development of e-banking solutions at Connecticut-based Webster Bank.
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      • Fiserv Acquires Competitor Open Solutions
        By Jonathan Camhi | January 15, 2013
        Fiserv acquired Open Solutions in a deal announced this morning, adding Open Solutions' technologies - such as parts DNA core processing platform - to Fiserv's offerings.
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      • 4 Areas of Focus for Competitive Advantage in Banking in 2013
        By Jim Eckenrode, Deloitte Center for Financial Services | January 11, 2013
        2013 may end up as "the year of regulatory implementation in banking," but compliance is not the only challenge facing banks that want to outpace the competition.
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      • Monitise Adds Mint to Its Mobile Money Platform for Banks
        By Jonathan Camhi | December 11, 2012
        A new deal with Intuit Financial Services means that Monitise will offer banks the chance to incorporate Mint, a popular personal financial management service, into mobile banking apps.
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      • U.S. Bank Expands Prepaid Services With Acquisition of FSV
        By Jonathan Camhi | November 27, 2012
        The bank announced today the acquisition of FSV Payments Services, a prepaid processing company, to offer more varied prepaid services.
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      • New Survey Identifies Trends in Regulations, M&A, IT Spending For Community Banks
        By Jonathan Camhi | November 06, 2012
        A new study by KPMG found that regulations are stifling organic growth and driving mergers and acquisitions among community banks.
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      • First Virginia Community Bank Completes Acquisition of First Commonwealth Bank of Virginia
        By Jonathan Camhi | October 22, 2012
        The acquisition is the first in the history of the 5-old-bank and will add $410 million in assets to the institution.
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      • Wells Fargo Tops U.S. Banks in Deposits
        By Bryan Yurcan | October 15, 2012
        Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are second and third, respectively.
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      • Japan's Softbank in Talks for $12.8 Billion Sprint Stake
        By Taro Fuse, Reuters | October 11, 2012
        Softbank Corp, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, is in talks to buy a majority stake in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corp for more than 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion), said a source with direct knowledge of the matter, as it seeks to expand overseas.

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      • Greek Banks NBG, Eurobank in Merger Talks
        By George Georgiopoulos and Lefteris Papadimas, Reuters | October 05, 2012
        Two of Greece's biggest banks, National and Eurobank, are in merger talks to create the country's biggest lender, banking sources said on Friday.

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      • FirstMerit Bank to Buy Citizens Republic For $952 Million
        By Reuters | September 13, 2012
        FirstMerit Corp said it would buy Citizens Republic Bancorp in an all-stock deal, valued at about $952 million, to expand its footprint into Michigan and Wisconsin.

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      • MasterCard Acquires Truaxis
        By Bryan Yurcan | September 07, 2012
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      • More Bank M&A: Scotiabank to Acquire ING Direct of Canada
        By Bryan Yurcan | August 30, 2012
        The deal is worth approximately $3.126 billion Canadian in cash.
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