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Fintent flagged 57 financial services acquisitions before announcement, with 21-24 month lead times. See the deals, the signals, and how the predictions work.

Payments technology leads financial services M&A propensity at 1.62x while insurance carriers lag at 0.50x. See the top 5 and bottom 5 sub-sectors for 2026.

Mid-Market Software Deal Predictions – July 20, 2026 Across the last nine weeks of Fintent predictions, we flagged at least 24 mid-market software transactions before they were announced. That is a floor, not a ceiling — it counts only the acquired companies our firmographic universe positively identifies as software, and

Mid-Market Software Sector: Trends and Upcoming Deals (July 20, 2026) Mid-market software spent the first half of 2026 leaning back from the deal table. Fintent’s M&A Propensity for the cohort sits at 0.93x and CapRaise Propensity at 0.88x, both below the peer baseline and both softening over the last 30

Manufacturing Deal Predictions – July 6, 2026 The signal comes first. The announcement comes later. Every deal below was flagged by Fintent’s M&A intent signal months — usually well over a year — before it became public. This is the manufacturing sector’s recent deal flow, seen through the research footprint

Manufacturing Sector: Trends and Upcoming Deals (July 6, 2026) Deal appetite in manufacturing is still running ahead of the market, but the tailwind is fading — and that makes knowing where to look more valuable, not less. This is a read of the manufacturing sector through Fintent’s financial-intent data: what