Less than a month after executing a deal to acquire cardholder and merchant processing and other assets of Italy-based SIA, Nexi, also based in Italy, has signed a binding framework agreement to acquire the cardholder and merchant processing assets of Denmark-based Nets. The all-stock transaction, valued at $9.20 billion (€7.20 billion), is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. The Nexi takeover of SIA, which was valued at $5.30 billion (€4.60 billion), is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021. Nets is owned by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman, CIC, Advent...