synopsis: Fidelity Ventures, which invests in and works with technology companies at the go-to-market stage, today announced it has acquired Dedham, MA-based eCredit, a privately-held provider of online solutions for commercial credit and collections professionals. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

synopsis: eBay Inc. announced that PayPal has agreed to acquire Fraud Sciences Ltd., a privately-held Israeli company with expertise in online risk tools, in a cash transaction with an aggregate transaction value of approx. $169 million. Fraud Sciences’ risk tools and analytics are expected to enhance eBay and PayPal’s proprietary fraud management systems.

synopsis: IBM today announced the completion of its acquisition of Corio, Inc., seven weeks after reaching a definitive agreement to purchase the San Carlos, Calif.-based company.

synopsis: Reval announced that it has acquired FXpress Corporation, a leading treasury software provider to the Fortune 1000. The acquisition solidifies Reval’s position as the leader in global derivative risk management and hedge accounting software solutions and services.

synopsis: NICE Systems and Actimize, a NICE Systems Company, announced the acquisition of the assets of Syfact, a pioneer of enterprise investigative case management solutions. Syfact's expertise, technology and best practices will help Actimize customers further improve investigative operations, and reduce overall operational costs.

synopsis: Guardian Angel Group, Inc. acquired Alea Holdings LLC, a technology and risk analysis company. Alea has developed sophisticated infrastructure risk analysis software, called INTELOS (patent pending) that accurately quantifies and grades in a standardized format physical security, operational engineering and country risks into one report.

synopsis: Primavera Systems, Inc. has acquired Pertmaster, Ltd., a risk analysis and mitigation solutions company based in the United Kingdom. Terms of the transactions were not released.

synopsis: e-VERIFILE.com, a leading provider of risk assessment, administrative support and workforce solutions, announced it has been acquired by prominent Atlanta entrepreneur Mark Wilson, along with partners, Frontier Capital, The Yucaipa Companies, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Plexus Capital.

synopsis: eScreen, Inc. and Pembrooke Occupational Health, Inc. announced an agreement to merge the two companies. This transaction brings together two best-in-class employment screening service providers and unifies each of the organizations’ complementary product portfolios.

synopsis: SunGard announced that it has acquired PredictiveMetrics, a provider of predictive scoring and analytical services for trade credit, debt collections, utilities and other markets. PredictiveMetrics’ core services around credit and collection analyses will become part of SunGard’s AvantGard Receivables solution.

synopsis: Solium Capital Inc., a leading global provider of web-based stock plan administration technology and services, agreed to acquire OptionEase Inc., the leading provider of applications for fair-market-value accounting and compliance in the United States.

synopsis: SAI Global Limited announced that it has completed its acquisition of Compliance 360, an industry-leading software provider of enterprise governance, risk management, compliance and audit management (GRC) solutions.

synopsis: IBM acquired Clarity Systems. Clarity Systems delivers financial governance software that enables organizations to automate the process of collecting, preparing, certifying and controlling financial statements for electronic filing, in support of mandates by the SEC and other financial regulatory agencies.

synopsis: MEGA International, a global provider of enterprise architecture, business process analysis, and governance, risk, and compliance solutions, has acquired a company in France, Control Metrics, a leading developer of advanced internal control software.

synopsis: Securac Holdings Inc. and Certus Software Inc., both industry- leading providers of governance, risk and compliance software and services, announced the merger of the two companies.The new company will have combined operations and will continue to leverage the strengths of both the Securac and Certus brands and products in their respective markets.

synopsis: Asparity Decision Solutions has completed the acquisition of the J-Port suite of operational risk tools from Portiva Corporation. The acquisition expands Asparity's decision support and data solutions in employee benefits and workforce talent to help companies take a self-service approach to managing operational risk.

synopsis: ICG Group, Inc. announced that it has acquired MSDSonline Inc. MSDSonline offers a suite of cost-effective, cloud-based solutions that help environmental, health and safety professionals more efficiently manage and reduce potential workplace and environmental hazards as part of their overall social responsibility and compliance programs.

synopsis: The Charles Schwab Corporation, a leading provider of financial services, announced the completion of its acquisition of Compliance11, Inc., a provider of compliance software. The acquisition enables Schwab to expand the compliance monitoring and reporting tools it offers to corporate clients.

synopsis: Infinisource, Inc., a leading benefits administration technology and services company, announced it received a majority equity investment from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm. Infinisource has over 1,200 broker relationships, 17,000 employer clients and 1.3 million lives on its system.

synopsis: Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations, has purchased assets of Dallas-based IT consulting and software solutions firm Avalion Consulting LLC.

synopsis: Fidelity Ventures, which invests in and works with technology companies at the go-to-market stage, today announced it has acquired Dedham, MA-based eCredit, a privately-held provider of online solutions for commercial credit and collections professionals. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

synopsis: Asset Control, the leading provider of Centralized Data Management solutions to the financial services industry, announced that Fidelity Ventures has taken a majority investment in the company.

synopsis: Fidelity Ventures, which invests in and works with technology companies at the go-to-market stage, today announced it has acquired Dedham, MA-based eCredit, a privately-held provider of online solutions for commercial credit and collections professionals. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

synopsis: Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity firms, today signed an agreement with Lloyds TSB plc to acquire its subsidiary Lloyds TSB Registrars for a total consideration of £550 million ($1.1 billion), subject to completion and other adjustments.

synopsis: oneShield, Inc., a leading provider of innovative technology driven policy administration, automated business rules and workflow solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry, has acquired the ebis insurance billing application from Mellon Financial Corporation to further expand their Dragon product offering.

synopsis: TradeMaven LLC and eLocal today jointly announced they have merged the two firms to form TradeMaven Group LLC (TMG). The merger is one of the most significant in the online trading industry, combining TradeMaven's leading technology for online trading with eLocal's exceptional retail and institutional execution and brokerage services.

synopsis: TeleCheck Services, Inc., a subsidiary of First Data Corp., today announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of ClearCheck, Inc., a full-service provider of return check management systems for major retailers and supermarkets across the United States. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

synopsis: Hearst Corp. agreed to acquire a 20 percent stake in Fitch Group, the parent of credit-ratings company Fitch Ratings, for $592 million from French financial holding company Fimalac SA. The acquisition also includes Algorithmics, a provider of risk-management services that Fimalac bought in January 2005.

synopsis: The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced that it will complete its acquisition of Brut LLC, the owner and operator of the Brut ECN, from SunGard Data Systems Inc. SDS for a total consideration of $190 million in cash.

synopsis: International Monetary Systems, Ltd., a worldwide leader in business-to-business barter services, today announced that it has purchased the assets and client base of Kansas Trade Exchange (KTE), located in Wichita, KS. The transaction will become effective on September 30, 2007.

synopsis: GL TRADE, the global provider of front to back solutions for international financial institutions, has announced the acquisition of EMOS, a key actor in middle office derivatives solutions. EMOS´ solutions and teams integrate the Post Trade Derivatives business line (PTD) managing GL CLEARVISION and UBIX.

synopsis: The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announces that it has acquired 9,790,280 shares in London Stock Exchange plc for a price of 1,218 pence per share. The consideration represents approximately GBP 119.2 million (c. US$ 219.4 million).