UK based FinTech solutions provider, FriendlyScore, has announced the launch of its SAAS application that analyzes real time social media data to assist lenders in creating risk profiles for potential borrowers with little to no credit history.

• HID Global continues to streamline and improve how banks protect themselves and their customers against fraud, data breaches and unauthorised transactions.
• Latest addition to One Time Password (OTP) family gives banks and enterprises the superior security of a hardware device along with unprecedented flexibility to personalise tokens on-site and manage all secret keys themselves.

It is now evident that the way in which emerging markets are financed has a critical effect on the overall financial well-being of these countries.

FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, announced the launch of India’s first financial inclusion lab in Bengaluru. The lab is aimed at developing innovative ways to extend banking access to India’s millions of underbanked citizens.

Nanopool GmbH acquired the nano-tech division of the Swiss company Bühler AG, one of the five worldwide leading players in the surface coating sector, and thus processed the biggest acquisition in the company's history. "The Bühler technology is successfully established in the USA and Asia for years," Sascha Schwindt stated.

PT JCB International Indonesia, subsidiary of JCB International Co. Ltd. the international operations arm of JCB Co. Ltd. (hereinafter collectively "JCB"), and PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk ("BRI"), one of the Indonesia's largest state owned commercial banks, with specialties in small medium enterprise or small scale & microfinance, are pleased to announce a new partnership for card payment business.

Ebix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBIX), a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 7.5 cents per outstanding share of the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable September 15, 2015, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2015.

 Commercial lender Eastern Funding LLC has hired Anthony Regan as its Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Mr. Regan will be responsible for company-wide sales and marketing across the grocery, dry cleaning, franchise fast food and coin laundry business lines. He will manage all of Eastern Funding's loan officers and report directly to senior management.

Affirm, the financial technology company led by PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin, today announced that Buy with Affirm, a payment option for consumers, is now available to merchants on Shopify, a leading cloud-based multichannel platform.

Bloomberg BNA announced the release of BNA Sales Tax Rates, its next generation Web-based solution that delivers accurate and up-to-the-minute sales and use tax rates for every taxing jurisdiction in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. Touting an all new Web-based interface, more granular search options and the ability to receive automatic delivery of access links to the latest sales tax rates, companies now can get accurate sales and use tax rates when, where and how they need them.