Privacy engineering software company, Privitar, today announces that it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Partech Ventures with participation from CME Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Existing investors IQ Capital, 24Haymarket and Illuminate Financial have reinvested. Privitar will use the funds to accelerate the delivery of its product roadmap and core IP. The firm will also look to build on sales success in Europe with expansion to the United States and other key geographies.

On the first day of their trip to Poland, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ‘The Heart’, a start-up incubator in Warsaw, to celebrate business opportunities between UK and Poland. The high-profile event was held by the British Embassy in Poland and hosted by Marta Krupinska, co-founder of Azimo, and Tomasz Rudolf, The Heart’s founder.

Banking operates in an increasingly complex environment. Due to the increased need for compliance, margins are diminishing and costs are rising.

NETinfo Plc has joined the Middle East NXT Banking Summit as the Associate Sponsor. The event, which is organized by Alpha One Events, is scheduled on September 26 & 27’ 2017 at The Address Dubai Marina in Dubai, UAE. The event will bring together industry leaders to explore the impact of futuristic banking technology innovation along with partnerships and collaboration with fintech can transform the customer value chain across the Middle East.

Agora Data, Inc. ("AGORA"), a Texas-based provider of technology solutions for the financial services industry, announces its partnerships with market-leader Auto Loan Technologies, LLC dba AutoZoom to expand the suite of services available to the buy-here, pay here dealer community.

AutoZoom is a web-based scoring and predictive underwriting SaaS provider designed to meet the underwriting and analysis challenges of the buy-here pay-here industry through its unique ability to build custom-fit scoring models for used-car financing dealerships.

Bitcoin news regarding blockchain is not the only BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) solution making headlines these days. Export Portal has been perfecting its own private blockchain trade solution for the past seven years. 

SWIFT announces today that it has opened membership in its KYC Registry to all supervised financial institutions.

ATMIA today released a statement questioning Visa Inc’s “Cashless Challenge” campaign in the US. 

ITG, a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced the expansion of its award-winning transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform to the fixed income market. 

PayPal is focused on delivering seamless mobile commerce experiences and extending this reach through strategic partnerships.