Technology

Mergers & Acquisitions' parent company has relaunched as Arizent. Gryphon and Moody's buy risk management-related companies for financial services. Grocer Fairway goes bankrupt. Former TSG Alexander Panos executive forms new consumer-focused PE firm. L Catterton-backed Chop't buys burrito chain.

Drive Capital, which backs farming technology FarmLogs, raises two funds. 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.

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

After 2019's deluge of financial technology megadeals, investors wondered if the boom could continue into 2020.

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 fundraising news, Siguler Guff raised its fourth fund that focuses on lower mid-market deals.

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.

Walmart, Shopify, TH Lee, Hitachi and others are relying on robots to increase the speed and accuracy of online orders in the fourth installment of Mergers & Acquisitions' weekly 7-part series on retail technology M&A.

The robots, designed by San Francisco-based Bossa Nova Robotics, join the ranks of Walmart’s increasingly automated workforce which also includes devices to scrub floors, unload trucks and gather online-grocery orders.

The loan the largest-ever bridge loan in the technology sector, surpassing IBM's $20 billion financing in 2018 for its acquisition of Red Hat.

Businesses operating in California are required to be in compliance with a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, starting in January.