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This deal reflects the ongoing convergence of industrial automation and software, a trend accelerated by AI and IoT adoption. It also highlights French corporates' appetite for US tech assets amid a strong dollar and a global M&A rebound. For crypto markets, it reinforces the narrative of institutional capital rotating into productive tech assets, potentially diverting some speculative flows from crypto.

Schneider Electric agreed to acquire US software maker PTC for approximately $22.6bn in cash.

Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6bn in All-Cash Deal

Schneider's $22.6bn cash splurge will drain European industrial liquidity, pushing yield-hungry treasurers into tokenized money market funds and Bitcoin.