The $400m venture financing of OPay Digital Services was the financial services industry’s top cross border venture financing deal as total deals worth $2.6bn were announced globally in August 2021, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 21.1% over the previous month of $3.32bn and a rise of 37.9% when compared with the last 12-month average, which stood at $1.9bn.

Comparing cross border venture financing deals value in different regions of the globe, Asia-Pacific held the top position, with total announced deals in the period worth $990.47m. At the country level, the UK topped the list in terms of deal value at $603.35m.

In terms of volumes, Asia-Pacific emerged as the top region for financial services industry cross border venture financing deals globally, followed by Europe and then North America.

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The top country in terms of cross border venture financing deals activity in August 2021 was the India with seven deals, followed by the Germany with six and the US with six.

In 2021, as of August, financial services cross border venture financing deals worth $21.47bn were announced globally, marking a decrease of 727.1% year on year.

financial services industry cross border venture financing deals in August 2021: Top deals

The top five financial services industry cross border venture financing deals accounted for 62.03% of the overall value during August 2021.

The combined value of the top five financial services cross border venture financing deals stood at $1.63bn, against the overall value of $2.6bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry cross border venture financing deals of August 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) 3W Capital,Longzhu Capital ,Meituan Dianping,Redpoint China Ventures.,Sequoia Capital China,SoftBank Ventures Asia,SoftBank Vision Fund II and Source Code Capital $400m venture financing deal with OPay Digital Services

2) The $370m venture financing of BharatPe by Amplo,Coatue Management,Dragoneer Investment Group,Insight Partners,Ribbit Capital,Sequoia Capital India,Steadfast Capital and Tiger Global Management

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