Total financial services industry M&A deals in Q1 2019 worth $2.6bn were announced in the UK, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked a decrease of 73.6% over the previous quarter and a drop of 72.6% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $9.49bn.
The UK held a 2.6% share of the global financial services industry M&A deal value that totalled $98.83bn in Q1 2019.
In terms of deal activity, the UK recorded 73 deals during Q1 2019, marking a decrease of 18% over the previous quarter and a drop of 1.4% over the last four-quarter average.
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By GlobalDataThe UK financial services industry M&A deals in Q1 2019: Top deals
The top five financial services industry M&A deals accounted for 70.1% of the overall value during Q1 2019.
The combined value of the top five financial services industry M&A deals stood at $1.82bn, against the overall value of $2.6bn recorded for the quarter. The top announced financial services industry M&A deal tracked by GlobalData in Q1 2019 was Ant Financial Services Group’s $640m acquisition of WorldFirst.
In second place was the $350.77m acquisition of Stackhouse Poland Group by Arthur J. Gallagher & and in third place was London Stock Exchange Group’s $318.34m acquisition of Euroclear.
The $271.99m acquisition of IFG Group by SaintMichelCo and Markerstudy’s acquisition of Co-op Insurance for $238.85m held fourth and fifth positions, respectively.
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.
