FinancialForce, the leading cloud ERP for the new services economy, is named to the 

Today, Seedrs announces that it will be the sole equity finance provider in a new partnership with Fidor Bank, the first challenger bank to launch in the UK back in 2015. The Digital marketplace offered by Fidor signposts banking customers to innovative sources of alternative investment including equity crowdfunding on Seedrs in an ambitious bid to provide every financial service a customer could possibly want.

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, today announces it has added UK based Pixoneye and Curve and US based Gridspace to its portfolio in the latest round of strategic fintech investments. Pixoneye and Gridspace deepen the fund’s focus in artificial intelligence as one of the technologies that will transform banking in the years to come and complement other investments such as Elliptic and Socure. The news comes in the wake of a highly active and successful six months for the fund, which has seen the number of fintech investments reach 15.

James G. Bach has been appointed as the International division president of Louis Berger, reporting to the chief executive officer. In this role, Bach oversees strategic and operational performance for the company's International division, which provides a broad range of engineering, planning, architecture, development, construction management and program management services to national, state, local and private clients outside of the United States. Bach will operate from the Richmond, London office, where the company's International division is headquartered.

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX) (FRA : TA8) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary iSignthis eMoney Ltd (“ISXPay”) has entered into a partnership agreement with Worldline.

Apex Clearing, an independent, full-service clearing firm and leader in the digital wealth space, has selected global FinTech firm InvestCloud as a technology partner to offer a new digital advice platform. Apex’s offering will allow FinTech startups and financial institutions alike to quickly take to market differentiated and personalized digital advisory services, using a fully featured, hyper-modular technology platform, with integrated, API-enabled custody and clearing services.

An interview with Chen Amit, CEO and co-founder of Tipalti. 

Financial IT: Could you please tell us more about Tipalti and your career path that brought you to launching Tipalti?

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, has been selected by Nando’s UK and Ireland restaurants to provide its payment infrastructure. Nando’s, famous for bringing its great tasting PERi-PERi sauces from South Africa to the UK and go-to favoured restaurant of millennials, has responded to their customers need for speed and convenience by choosing Ingenico to implement a consistent payment experience across all channels.

Showpad - the world’s most powerful sales enablement platform - has entered into an agreement with  Microsoft Corp to participate in its elite channel programme. The programme will accelerate adoption of Showpad through the worldwide Microsoft reseller channel. Showpad was chosen due to its proven record of success, the power of its sales enablement solution and its ability to amplify the value of product integrations with SharePoint, Outlook and Dynamics, making the total experience for the end user much more powerful.