Total payments industry M&A deals in Q3 2019 worth $4.68bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 79.5% over the previous quarter and a drop of 73.5% when compared with the last four-quarter average, which stood at $17.67bn.

Comparing deals value in different regions of the globe, Europe held the top position, with total announced deals in the period worth $4.36bn. At the country level, Denmark topped the list in terms of deal value at $3.18bn.

In terms of volume, Europe emerged as the top region for payments industry M&A deals globally, followed by North America and then Asia-Pacific.

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The top country in terms of M&A deals activity in Q3 2019 was the US with ten deals, followed by the UK with four and Norway with two.

In 2019, as of the end of Q3 2019, payments M&A deals worth $72.23bn were announced globally, marking an increase of 939.5% year on year.

Payments industry M&A deals in Q3 2019: Top deals

The top five payments industry M&A deals accounted for 99.4% of the overall value during Q3 2019.

The combined value of the top five payments M&A deals stood at $4.65bn, against the overall value of $4.68bn recorded for the month.

The top five payments industry deals of Q3 2019 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Mastercard’s $3.18bn asset transaction with Nets

2) The $1.17bn acquisition of equensWorldline by Worldline

3) Ally Financial’s $190m acquisition of Health Credit Services

4) The $65m acquisition of TriSource Solutions by Repay Holdings

5) Zip’s acquisition of PartPay for $42.21m.

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.