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Eli Lilly acquires Demira. Goldman Sachs' merchant banking division buys Aptos. Visa purchases plaid.

Plaid’s developer tools help power a range of popular financial apps, such as Venmo, Coinbase and Acorns, by channeling the banking data they need for their apps and websites.

Call for Nominations: Deadline is Feb. 7 for M&A Mid-Market Awards. We've named the 2020 Most Influential Women. What's ahead for M&A in 2020? We ask bankers from Stifel, Piper Jaffray, William Blair. In deal news, Goldman Sachs' merchant banking division is buying retail technology company Aptos from Apax.

China is opening at a key moment for Goldman, offering the bank, led by Lloyd Blankfein, another frontier as it faces mounting pressure to find ways to boost revenue.

Investors have plowed hundreds of billions of dollars into private debt funds in recent years, lured by premiums that are more than five percentage points higher than competing public debt.

Facebook poaches engineers from finance sector. Mergers & Acquisitions examines hiring trends in private equity. Alibaba buys NetEase's Kaola e-commerce business.

The expansion could set up Facebook for a clash with some of the biggest firms in finance, like Goldman Sachs.

“We are heartbroken,” said KKR founders Robert Kravis and George Roberts about the sudden death of Navab, who headed the firm’s Americas private equity business before leaving to found his own firm.

A trio of big deals in the payments and financial tech area and continued bank and venture capital interest in fintech investments are creating expectations for a banner year.

"We’re gonna put a little fuel in your bus," said Smith in his commencement address. Smith founded private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, which invests in enterprise software companies, in 2000.