Europe’s financial services industry saw a drop of 49.43% in deal activity during July 2022, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by EDBI, Eurazeo, Horizons Ventures, LGT Impact Ventures, Mubadala Investment, OMERS Ventures and Target Global’s $400m venture financing deal with FinanceFox Germany, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 44 financial services industry deals worth $1.5bn were announced for the region in July 2022, against the 12-month average of 87 deals.

Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in July 2022 with 19 transactions, representing a 43.2% share for the region.

In second place was venture financing with 18 deals, followed by private equity deals with seven transactions, respectively capturing a 40.9% and 15.9% share of the overall deal activity for the month.

In terms of value of deals, venture financing was the leading category in Europe’s financial services industry with $631.77m, while private equity and M&A deals totalled $502.46m and $377.47m, respectively.

Europe financial services industry deals in July 2022: Top deals

The top five financial services deals accounted for 85.1% of the overall value during July 2022.

The combined value of the top five financial services deals stood at $1.29bn, against the overall value of $1.5bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry deals of July 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) EDBI,Eurazeo,Horizons Ventures,LGT Impact Ventures,Mubadala Investment,OMERS Ventures and Target Global $400m venture financing deal with FinanceFox Germany

2) The $376.76m private equity of Societe Anonyme and Opteven Assurances by Apax Partners

3) Kingdom Holding $268.66m acquisition deal with M&G

4) The $120.89m private equity of Cooper Parry by Waterland Private Equity Investments

5) Anthemis Group,Creandum,Daiichi,Eurazeo,Latitude – UK,LocalGlobe,MMC Ventures,Notion Capital,OurCrowd and Target Global $120m venture financing deal with yu life