Visa has Plaid and now Mastercard acquires Finicity for close to $1 billion

Earlier this year, Visa acquired Plaid, a leading financial data aggregation and insights firm.
Now, Mastercard is buying Finicity, pointing to the strategic role data aggregation firms play in global payments.

Michael Deleon | June 23, 2020

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