Total financial services industry deals worth $21.2bn were announced globally for July 2021, with the $2.29bn acquisition of State Auto Insurance Companies being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 25.8% over the previous month of $16.86bn and a rise of 13.2% when compared with the last 12-month average of $18.74bn.

In terms of number of deals, the sector saw a rise of 6.47% with 329 deals in July 2021 when compared to the last 12-month average of 309 deals.

In value terms, North America led the activity with deals worth $12.63bn in July 2021.

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financial services industry deals in July 2021: Top deals

The top five deals accounted for 38.4% of the overall value during July 2021.

The combined value of the top five deals stood at $8.14bn, against the overall value of $21.2bn recorded for the month.

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

1) State Auto Insurance Companies $2.29bn acquisition deal with Liberty Mutual HoldingInc

2) The $2.2bn private equity of 9.9% stake in SAFG Retirement Services by The Blackstone Group

3) Generate Capital $2bn private equity deal with Andra AP-fonden,AustralianSuper,Aware Super,CBRE Caledon Capital Management,Harbert Management,QIC,Railways Pension TrusteeLimited and Wellcome Trust

4) The $750m acquisition of PayCertify by Payment Reservations

5) FTX Trading $900m venture financing deal with Alan Howard,Altimeter Capital Management,Bondshine Capital,Circle Ventures,Coinbase Ventures,Hudson River Trading,Insight Partners,Izzy Englander,Lightspeed Venture Partners – US,Multicoin Capital Management,New Enterprise Associates,Paradigm (US),Ribbit Capital,Senator Investment Group,Sequoia Capital,Sino Global Capital,SoftBank Group,Third Point,Thoma Bravo Advantage,Van Eck Associates and Willoughby Capital Holdings