M&A Deal Summary

CardWorks Acquires Ally - Credit Card Business

On January 22, 2025, CardWorks acquired financial services company Ally - Credit Card Business from Ally

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is CardWorks’ 1st transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is CardWorks’ 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is CardWorks’ 1st transaction in Michigan.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-01-22
Target Ally - Credit Card Business
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) CardWorks
Sellers(s) Ally
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Ally - Credit Card Business

Detroit, Michigan, United States
Ally's Credit Card Business including a portfolio of $2.3 billion in credit card receivables with 1.3 million active cardholders. Ally's Credit Card Business is based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

CardWorks

Woodbury, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Financial Services
DESCRIPTION

CardWorks is a consumer finance lender and servicer, and a people-centric, compliance-focused organization enabled by data and technology. CardWorks was founded in 1987 and is based in Woodbury, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Financial Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: Michigan M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-10-11 GreenSky

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

GreenSky is a technology company powering commerce at the point of sale for a growing ecosystem of merchants, consumers, and banks. The company's highly scalable, proprietary, and patented technology platform enables merchants to offer frictionless promotional payment options to consumers, driving increased sales volume and accelerated cash flow. Banks leverage GreenSky’s technology to provide loans to super-prime and prime consumers nationwide. GreenSky was formed in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Ally

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Category Company
Founded 1919
Sector Financial Services
Employees10,700
Revenue 8.9B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Ally is an automotive financial services company. Ally's automotive services business offers a full suite of financing products and services, including new and used vehicle inventory and consumer financing, leasing, inventory insurance, commercial loans and vehicle remarketing services. Ally was incorporated 1919 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 4
Sector: Financial Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: Michigan M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2025 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-10-21 FSF

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

FSF has focused on providing products that improve the financial future of customers via leading-edge technology and proprietary, analytics-based underwriting. FSF was founded in 2016 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

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