Sunday, 16 June 2019

Hexaware acquires Mobiquity

IT services company Hexaware Technologies Ltd has acquired US-based digital services firm Mobiquity for $182 Million in an all-cash deal. Hexaware is majority owned by private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia. As of 31 March, Baring owned 62.59% in Hexaware.

With a presence across three continents, Mobiquity is one of the largest independent customer experience consulting firms specializing in creating frictionless multi-channel digital experiences using cloud technologies. Mobiquity creates digital products for well-known global brands such as Amazon Web Services, Rabobank, Philips, Wawa, Backbase and Otsuka.
Hexaware enters an exciting new phase of growth and capability with the acquisition of Mobiquity Inc. Mobiquity strengthens two of our key strategic offerings: Cloudify Everything and Customer Experience Transformation. We are seeing strong demand for these capabilities and, with this acquisition; we will be able to further accelerate our contributions to our customers’ business growth. The transaction involves an upfront payment of $131 million and deferred payouts of $51 million.

Forty-one percent of Hexaware revenue is from BFS (banking and financial services) but there is not much of banking in that. It’s largely capital markets and mortgage. We have a little bit of banking, but it is not core digital banking, which is the most important priority for all banks. Mobiquity is good at that. They have helped the largest bank in the Philippines on this front and are working with one of the largest Middle East banks for their digital banking platform.

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