Below is a list of 18 acquisitions and 27 angel, seed, venture, and strategic investment transactions that occurred in 20 countries in February 2017. Europe led with 14 deals, followed by the U.S. and Asia-Pacific with 13 each, Latin America and Canada with 2 each, and Middle East-Africa with 1. In over three years of monitoring, this was the first month in which transactions in Europe exceeded those in the U.S. Transactions announced last month included deals involving credit cards, mobile payments, loyalty programs, microlending, prepaid cards, security technology, merchant acquiring, bus...