The new owner-to-be: Sontiq, an identity security company with a number of identity and cyber monitoring products and services. Sontiq is a portfolio company of The Wicks Group of Companies, and it signed a definitive agreement to buy Cyberscout.

Mutual life insurer MassMutual has announced plans to acquire Great American Life Insurance Company from American Financial Group for $3.5 billion.

Allstate Corporation has entered an agreement to sell Allstate Life Insurance Company (ALIC) to Blackstone for almost $3 billion.