Total financial services industry M&A deals in April 2020 worth $4.96bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 89.8% over the previous month and a drop of 80.9% when compared with the last 12-month average, which stood at $25.99bn.

Comparing deals value in different regions of the globe, Asia-Pacific held the top position, with total announced deals in the period worth $3.43bn. At the country level, Republic of Korea (South Korea) topped the list in terms of deal value at $1.91bn.

In terms of volumes, North America emerged as the top region for financial services industry M&A deals globally, followed by Asia-Pacific and then Europe.

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The top country in terms of M&A deals activity in April 2020 was the US with 45 deals, followed by the UK with 13 and China with nine.

In 2020, as of the end of April 2020, financial services M&A deals worth $130.21bn were announced globally, marking an increase of 18.8% year on year.

Financial services industry M&A deals in April 2020: Top deals

The top five financial services industry M&A deals accounted for 89.2% of the overall value during April 2020.

The combined value of the top five financial services M&A deals stood at $4.43bn, against the overall value of $4.96bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry deals of April 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) KB Financial Group’s $1.9bn acquisition of Prudential Life Insuranceof Korea Ltd

2) The $1.2bn acquisition of Galileo Financial Technologies by Social Finance

3) JPMorgan Chase &’s $1bn acquisition of China International Fund Management

4) The $211.36m acquisition of Max Life insurance by Axis Bank

5) Euronext’s acquisition of Vp Securities for $113.85m.

Verdict deals analysis methodology

This analysis considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term ‘acquisition’ refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.

GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.

More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.