Total financial services industry M&A deals in Q3 2020 worth $3.83bn were announced in the UK, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 289.6% over the previous quarter and a drop of 78.9% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $18.12bn.

The UK held a 14.02% share of the global financial services industry M&A deal value that totalled $27.29bn in Q3 2020.

In terms of deal activity, the UK recorded 68 deals during Q3 2020, marking a rise of 28.3% over the previous quarter and a drop of 5.6% over the last four-quarter average.

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The UK financial services industry M&A deals in Q3 2020: Top deals

The top five financial services industry M&A deals accounted for 93.9% of the overall value during Q3 2020.

The combined value of the top five financial services M&A deals stood at $3.59bn, against the overall value of $3.83bn recorded for the month.

The top five financial services industry deals of Q3 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Rand Merchant Investment Holdings and Sampo’s $2.14bn acquisition of Hastings Group

2) The $687.89m merger of Honeycomb Investment Trust and Pollen Street Secured Lending by

3) Petershill Private Equity’s $570m acquisition of Permira Holdings

4) The $102.84m acquisition of HWSI Realisation Fund by Cubitt Trade Holdings

5) Liontrust Asset Management’s asset transaction with Architas Multi-Manager for $92.45m.

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.