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SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (OTC:SMKG) With over 40 billion-dollar deals closed this year, Crypto Mergers have surged past anything the market has seen before.
SmartCard Marketing Systems Inc. (OTC:SMKG) With over 40 billion-dollar deals closed this year, Crypto Mergers have surged past anything the market has seen before..
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[{"type":"text","content":"Industry News\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAreta:\r\n Crypto M&A tops $40b in 2025 as buyers seek scale and speed\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\"At the same time, payment processors are\r\n racing to own the entire stablecoin value chain, from issuance to settlement. Stripe’s\r\n acquisition of Preview and MoonPay’s European shopping spree reveal a clear\r\n pattern: companies are internalizing every step of cryptopayments to capture\r\n this booming market.\" \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSource: https://crypto.news/areta-crypto-ma-tops-40b-in-2025-as-buyers-seek-scale-and-speed/\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe 2025 M&A Market for Fintech Companies\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAlthough the M&A market has\r\n experienced a decline in total deals in nearly every sector, fintech has been\r\n far less affected. Our research recorded over 600 private fintech deals between\r\n Q2 2022 and Q1 2025, this number nearly doubling pre-pandemic levels—which\r\n peaked at ~300 deals. Given the decline in the general M&A market that\r\n began in Q2 2022, a greater appetite for M&A (and corresponding level of\r\n liquidity) is evident within fintech.\r\n\r\nSo far, however, deal volume and\r\n value has dropped noticeably in the last year. For example, the median revenue\r\n multiple range as of Q4 2024 was ~4.7x, which is ~26% lower than it was in 2021\r\n at 7.7x. However, data trends show these multiples have experienced mild\r\n short-term increases following small cuts in the federal interest rate as of\r\n September 2024, which paints a cautiously optimistic picture of fintech M&A\r\n moving into 2025.\r\n\r\nSource: Fintech\r\n Valuation Multiples: 2025 Report – First Page Sage\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCEO Massimo Barone stated \" We could finally begin to\r\n see Valuations of “Paytech & Embedded Payments” like ours “Breaking Through\r\n The Ceiling” – an area we have been a major contributor and staking investments by developing. There are more than Six major industry Digital Platforms that are in\r\n our portfolio in major growth sectors and commercially operating generating revenues - with Two more nearing commercial\r\n productions in the Digital ID and Energy Sectors”.\r\n\r\nSmartCard\r\n Marketing Systems Inc. is a leading provider of PAAS “Platforms as a Service”\r\n for advanced financial, digital assets and paytech solutions, de...