AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoPayments Deal: Francisco Partners is buying Canadian payments processor Moneris from RBC and BMO for about C$1.44bn (cash), with Moneris serving 325,000 commerce points—an exit that signals continued private-equity appetite for Canadian fintech. Pipeline Costs: Trans Mountain has agreed to cut shipping fees for long-term shippers by about 10% under a settlement that still needs regulator approval, deepening the public subsidy debate around the $34.4bn project. AI Infrastructure Finance: Lambda is selling a $917m leveraged loan to fund Nvidia GPU infrastructure, showing debt markets are increasingly being used to bankroll Canada-linked AI buildouts. Cyber Expansion: BlueVision and Fluency Security are partnering to embed behavioural analytics into BlueVision’s Fusion Cloud across South Africa, the UAE and Canada, aiming for faster identity-driven threat detection. Energy & Markets: Keel Infrastructure shut down all U.S. bitcoin mining to pivot power toward AI/HPC data centres, while Canada’s broader investment chatter continues to track rate and risk shifts. Lab Services: Merck is expanding its Singapore biosafety testing lab to boost contract testing capacity across Asia-Pacific.
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