Target Acquirer
Date Location Location Description
3/26 WiZink Bank SA Värde Partners Inc. Värde Partners will acquire the remaining 49 percent
Madrid Bloomington stake in WiZink, an independent digital bank specializing
in revolving credit in Spain and Portugal.
3/26 Jefferson Capital J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC J.C. Flowers, a private-equity firm, has acquired Jefferson
Systems LLC New York Capital Systems, which purchases and services consumer
St. Cloud, Minn. charged-off debt and bankruptcy receivables.
3/27 RedBear Particle Industries Inc. Particle Industries has acquired RedBear, an internet
Hong Kong Minneapolis hardware developer.
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