Total UK financial services industry M&A deals in Q4 2018 worth $9.84bn were announced, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 2.8% over the previous quarter and a drop of 1.3% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $9.97bn.

The United Kingdom held a 19.3% share of the global financial services industry M&A deal value that totalled $51.12bn in Q4 2018.

In terms of deal activity, the United Kingdom recorded 93 deals during Q4 2018, marking a rise of 17.7% over the previous quarter and a rise of 25.7% over the last four-quarter average.

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UK financial services industry M&A deals in Q4 2018: Top deals

The top five financial services industry M&A deals accounted for 86% of the overall value during Q4 2018.

The combined value of the top five financial services industry M&A deals stood at $8.46bn, against the overall value of $9.84bn recorded for the quarter. The top announced financial services industry M&A deal tracked by GlobalData in Q4 2018 was Legal & General Assurance Society’s $3.15bn acquisition of Nortel Networks UK Pension Plan.

In second place was the $2.93bn acquisition of CFSGAM IP Holdings, CFSGAM Services, Colonial First State Asset Management (Australia), Colonial First State Infrastructure, Colonial First State Managed Infrastructure, First State Investments Managers (Asia), First State Investments (US), First State Investment (UK Holdings) and Realindex Investments by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking and in third place was RenaissanceRe Holdings’ $1.5bn acquisition of Tokio Millennium Re (UK) and Tokio Millennium Re.

The $487.66m acquisition of LCH Group by London Stock Exchange Group and MS&AD Insurance Group’s acquisition of ReAssure Jersey One for $398.41m 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.

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.