Visa abandons $5.7B Plaid acquisition following antitrust lawsuit
SHARE Visa Inc. today abandoned its $5.7 billion acquisition of financial technology startup Plaid Financial Inc. following a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the deal on antitrust grounds. The deal was announced in January 2020 and the Justice Department was first reported to be investigating the acquisition in October. The probe resulted in the department announcing in November that it was suing Visa on the grounds that the deal amounts to an attempt to eliminate a nascent competitive threat in violation of both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Ac...