Europe’s financial services industry saw a drop of 18.18% in deal activity during August 2021, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by Apex AcquisitionLimited’s $2.07bn acquisition of Sanne Group, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 72 financial services industry deals worth $4bn were announced for the region in August 2021, against the 12-month average of 88 deals.

Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in August 2021 with 44 transactions, representing a 61.1% share for the region.

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In second place was venture financing with 21 deals, followed by private equity deals with seven transactions, respectively capturing a 29.2% and 9.7% share of the overall deal activity for the month.

In terms of value of deals, M&A was the leading category in Europe’s financial services industry with $2.75bn, while venture financing and private equity deals totalled $1.06bn and $138.58m, respectively.

Europe financial services industry deals in August 2021: Top deals

The top five financial services deals accounted for 82.1% of the overall value during August 2021.

The combined value of the top five financial services deals stood at $3.24bn, against the overall value of $4bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry deals of August 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Apex AcquisitionLimited $2.07bn acquisition deal with Sanne Group

2) The $314.83m acquisition of Shenzhen Investment International Capital Holdings Infrastructure by Mei Wah Industrial (Hong Kong)

3) Altimeter Capital Management,Avid Ventures,BlackRock Funds Services Group,Dragoneer Investment Group,Durable Capital Partners,Fidelity Management & Research,General Catalyst Partners,Latitude (UK),Spark Capital Partners,TaL Capital,Target Global and Whale Rock Capital Management $300m venture financing deal with Rapyd Financial Network (2016)

4) The $292m venture financing of WorldRemit by (US),Accel Partners – UK,Farallon Capital Management,LeapFrog Investments and TCV

5) Alan Howard,Jump Capital,LeadBlock Partners,REDO Ventures and Valar Ventures $263m venture financing deal with Bitpanda