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. 

VTTI Energy Partners LP (NYSE: VTTI) has been informed by VTTI BV that Vitol Investment Partnership, an investment vehicle sponsored and managed by Vitol, has agreed to acquire MISC Berhad's ("MISC") 50% shareholding in VTTI BV, which owns the general partner of VTTI Energy Partners, for cash consideration of $830 million, subject to certain conditions p

Personal finance behemoth Intuit is preparing to flog off the family silver with the proposed sale of its flagship accounting software package Quicken.

 Solera Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLH) ("Solera" or the "Company") today announced that it is exploring a variety of strategic alternatives. The Company further stated that as part of the process, the Board of Directors has formed a special committee, which has retained Centerview Partners LLC as its financial advisor and Sullivan & Cromwell as its legal advisor.

SunGard has won the Corporate LiveWire 2015 Global Funds Award in the “corporate actions software solution of the year” category for its XSP corporate actions solutions, including its enterprise processing platform, software as a service (SaaS), managed services, and business process as a service (BPaaS) offerings.  The Corporate LiveWire Globa

 Sphere 3D Corp (NASDAQ: ANY) a leader in virtualization technology and data management solutions, announces "Let's Get Smart on Technology," a new program designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) secure and access their company's data anywhere, any place, anytime whether in the office or in the cloud.

 Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) ("the Company"), a leading provider of cloud communications services for businesses and consumers, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held iCore Networks, Inc.("iCore"), a premier provider of Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) for businesses, for $92 million.

 More and more e-commerce merchants are taking an interest in bitcoin payments, in order to set themselves apart from their competition and target the growing number of customers with bitcoins. Innovative gateways such as Coinsnap now offer simple integration of bitcoin payments, including comprehensive payment services for more than 30 leading shopping cart systems.

Millions of new customers with bitcoins to spend