Cross-Border M&A Platform Development for Global Investment Opportunities

Development of innovative fintech solution for mergers and acquisitions and closer collaboration between Chinese and European markets.

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The company and product

DealGlobe is a pioneer in the fintech industry with a cross-border M&A deal origination platform, providing comprehensive investment advisory and buy-side & sell-side financial services.

This revolutionary corporate information hub and deal origination platform serves entrepreneurs, investors, and intermediaries seeking cross-border business opportunities.

The platform connects businesses pursuing investment and partnership opportunities, effectively bridging the gap between Chinese and European markets while facilitating global business transactions.

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Scope and Highlights

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The Challenge

Advanced data analytics driving intelligent investment decisions.

The client required a robust fintech solution capable of processing big-data analytics while ensuring complex financial data was presented clearly and intuitively within the web interface for optimal user experience.

Key development challenges for this cross-border fintech platform included:

Big-data analytics implementation and intuitive financial data presentation.
Managing immense datasets containing both English and Chinese company information.
Ensuring enterprise-level security and privacy protection for sensitive financial data.
Serving two distinct target markets with seamless multilingual functionality and precise translations.

The Process

To rapidly gather market insights and understand potential users' needs in the M&A space, we collaborated closely with the client and monitored iteration results to respond quickly when new challenges emerged.

We designed the entire fintech platform from the ground up, including the application's roadmap, system architecture, custom analytics dashboard, and user experience design. This comprehensive approach delivered an organized, intuitive structure that guides users seamlessly through complex M&A processes.

Our core technical implementation for building this cross-border investment platform included:

Implementing Elasticsearch as a high-performance search server to index massive datasets and filter through over 600,000 company records instantly.
Engineering a PostgreSQL database architecture specifically optimized for multilingual content management.
Developing an ActiveAdmin-based translation panel to streamline content localization processes for global markets.
Deploying SSL encryption protocols to ensure all sensitive financial data remains secure at rest and in transit.

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The Outcome

Through our collaboration, we delivered a fully functional prototype ready for investor demonstrations and client onboarding.

Following its 2014 launch, DealGlobe established itself as a leading cross-border M&A advisory platform and became the fintech industry's pioneering solution for international deal origination. The following year, the company successfully secured £1 million in Angel funding from investors to accelerate further platform development and market expansion.

Key factors that drove the platform's success in the competitive M&A fintech landscape:

From launch, DealGlobe delivered seamless multilingual functionality with specialized focus on English and Chinese market requirements.
The platform empowers users to gain comprehensive company insights and connect with qualified partners for investment opportunities, strategic partnerships, and sales pipeline development.
Advanced machine-learning algorithms enable companies to identify optimal business partners based on sophisticated matching criteria and market intelligence.