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MoonPay to acquire SEC-registered North Capital in $60 million all-stock deal

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MoonPay agreed on Wednesday to acquire North Capital Investment Technology in an all-stock deal worth more than $60 million. North Capital brings securities brokerage and trading infrastructure, including affiliates that operate brokerage, advisory, transfer-agent and alternative-trading-system businesses, as MoonPay expands further into tokenized securities and real-world assets.

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MoonPay agreed to buy North Capital Investment Technology in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $60 million.
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North Capital has handled about $9 billion in transaction volume and is an SEC-registered private-markets investment platform.
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The target adds US broker-dealer, trading and investment infrastructure as MoonPay moves deeper into tokenized securities.
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North Capital’s affiliates run securities brokerage, advisory, transfer-agent and alternative-trading-system businesses.

What it means

Users and counterparties who already interact with MoonPay may notice that the company is now reaching into securities infrastructure as well as crypto payments. The deal adds broker-dealer and trading functions to a business that has served more than 35 million customers, which changes the set of services attached to the MoonPay name tomorrow morning.

In practice, the deal expands what MoonPay can connect to tokenized securities because North Capital brings brokerage, advisory, transfer-agent and alternative-trading-system operations. What remains the same is that the acquisition is still only agreed, not completed, and it is described as an all-stock transaction worth more than $60 million.

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Sep 23 13:00
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Sep 23 13:00
Cointelegraph echo
No new facts: expands, dealer, $60m
+3 h 11 m
Sep 23 16:10
Unchained adds
Sharpens the figure: $8.7B, with quotes
+6 h 6 m
Sep 23 19:06
The Defiant echo
No new facts: businesses, affiliates, advisory