Transaction value in the hot financial technology sector is increasingly concentrated in the payments pace after Square Inc.’s $27 billion takeover of Afterpay. Payments companies raised $2.4 billion in the second quarter, leading the $7.5 billion sector-wide private placement haul that also includes banking technology, digital lending, and investment tech, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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