Total payments industry deals for December 2020 worth $10.28bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 3.6% over the previous month and a rise of 247.5% when compared with the last 12-month average of $2.96bn.

In terms of number of deals, the sector saw a rise of 43.6% over the last 12-month average with 56 deals against the average of 39 deals.

In value terms, North America led the activity with deals worth $9.81bn.

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Payments industry deals in December 2020: Top deals

The top five payments deals accounted for 95.5% of the overall value during December 2020.

The combined value of the top five payments deals stood at $9.81bn, against the overall value of $10.28bn recorded for the month.

The top five payments industry deals of December 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) The $9bn merger of Foley Trasimene AcquisitionII and Paysafe Group

2) The $365m acquisition of Poynt by GoDaddy

3) Affirm Holdings’ $262.83m acquisition of PayBright

4) The $95m venture financing of GoCardless by Bain Capital Ventures

5) Accel’s venture financing of Lydia Solutions for $86m.

Verdict deals analysis methodology

This analysis considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term ‘acquisition’ refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.

GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.

More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.