Chime acquires hourly payment platform Salt Labs for $173M (TWIF 6/30)

Lineage, a real estate investment trust for temperature-controlled warehouses, will raise up to $3.5 billion in its IPO.

Buy-now-pay-later provider Klarna will sell off its point of sale checkout business for $520 million to avoid conflicts with payment facilitator integration partners like Stripe and Adyen.

American Express will acquire restaurant reservation platform Tock from Squarespace for $400 million.

US neobank Chime will acquire earned wage access provider Salt Labs for $14 million in cash, with additional consideration of up to $159 million.

UK small business lending platform Funding Circle* sold off its US business to lender iBusiness Funding.

Brazil's NuBankacquired bank-focused AI developer Hyperplane.

French bank Société Générale is selling off its incubated freelancer-focused neobank Shine to Ageras, a Danish fintech consolidator.

Japanese crypto exchange BitFlyer is reportedly trying to acquire FTX Japan.

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group is likely to sell its stake in China’s first personal credit reporting company to Tencent.

Private equity firm GrowthCurve acquiredDuetto, a provider of revenue management software for the hospitality industry.

American card issuer Discover sold off its $10 billion student loan portfolio to private equity firms Carlyle and KKR ahead of its planned acquisition by Capital One.

British investment trusts Alliance and Witan will merge to create a company managing £5 billion.

Australian bank ANZ received regulatory approval to acquire rival Suncorp Bank for $3.3 billion.