Next Money, the world’s biggest and broadest fintech community platform, have today announced the Global Fintech Radar Challenge. The challenge asks Open Source developers and platforms to create and produce the world’s leading aggregation tool for fintech data, news, insights, social media interactions, startups and companies, industry trends and patents.

Cloud Lending Solutions, a cloud-based, end-to-end lending platform, today announced that Neyber, a leading UK provider of financial employee benefits, has chosen and implemented CL Originate^TM, CL Loan^TM, and CL Collections^TM to support the rapid growth of its business.

Neyber is a UK based provider of financial employee benefits that enables employees to reduce borrowing costs with access to affordable loans integrated with payroll, at no cost to the employer.

Vermilion Software and 

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of the Things (IoT), and 

Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger has been awarded “Best Mobile Initiative” at the Inside Market Data/Inside Reference Data awards, a recognition of the company’s commitment to provide market professionals greater agility over a messaging system offering industry leading chat controls and compliance features.

 e.ventures is announcing the closing of a new $150 million early stage fund to target Europe’s best businesses and entrepreneurs, bringing e.ventures’ total assets under management today to more than $1 billion. This new fund, focused on seed and Series A rounds, will be deployed alongside an already active $290 million global growth investment vehicle which targets subsequent financing rounds, allowing entrepreneurs the gain the full benefit of e.ventures’ expertise through the full investment lifecycle.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today announced that it has won the 2016 Technology Innovation Awards from FTF News in the categories of  ‘Best IBOR Solution’ and ‘Best Buy-Side Operations Solution.’ This is the second year running that SimCorp has won in the IBOR (investment book of record) category. 

Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has renewed its contract with John Deere Financial, the global financial services division of Deere & Company, to continue providing their revolving credit card processing for another 10 years.