Who wants Barclays' merchant payments unit? (TWIF 9/22)

Hummingbird*, a financial crime risk management software provider, agreed to acquire LogicLoop*, a provider of no-code data integration and automation solutions.

The London Stock Exchange GroupacquiredVeris, a post-trade processing platform, from New York-based financial markets infrastructure provider Axoni (in which it owns a stake) for an undisclosed sum.

NeoXam, a French data management, reporting, portfolio accounting and transaction software solutions provider, will acquire EZOPS, a provider of AI-enabled data control, workflow automation, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting technology.

CSI, a modern banking stack software provider, will acquireVelocity Solutions, which provides banks account and deposit acquisition, customer engagement and retention solutions.

Financial software giant Finastra is working with investment bank Evercore to sell off its Treasury and Capital Markets business for a price around $2 billion.

Private equity firm Advent International is in talks to sell the European identity authentication business of Idemia to France's IN Groupe.

Citigroup is selling its trust services business to professional services provider JTC for $80 million.

Barclays is having a hard time selling off a stake in its UK merchant payments unit with potential buyers baulking at the bank's valuation of the business. The valuation is undisclosed, but has already been written down by £300 million.

American regional bank EverBank agreed to acquire Sterling Bank, a bank with $900 million of loans, $2 billion of deposits, and 25 branches across California and New York.

India's IndoStar Capital entered a $209 million deal to sell its home finance unit to private equity firm EQT.

Private equity firm Carlyle is buying a minority stake in North Bridge , a finance firm that focuses on a type of private credit lending to landlords for clean energy projects.

Close Brothers Group agreed to sell its wealth management unit to private equity firm Oaktree for up to £200 million pounds.

Accounting firm Grant Thorton's US business is bidding against private equity firms to buy out its UK business.