Venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Adam Dell today unveiled Clarity Money, a new personal finance mobile app that acts as your advocate. Clarity Money ushers in a new era of mobile personal finance management (PFM) apps that use artificial intelligence and data science to help consumers make smarter financial decisions. For the first time ever, consumers can have a single mobile app that improves all aspects of their financial life, from getting a lower interest rate credit card to lowering bills.

Infoblox Inc. and Vista Equity Partners announced that they have received approval from the German Federal Cartel Office in connection with Vista’s previously-announced tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Infoblox at a price of $26.50 per share in cash.

Citi’s Issuer Services business, acting through Citibank N.A., has been appointed by OMV Petrom S.A. (“OMV Petrom”), the largest oil and gas group in Southeastern Europe, as depositary bank for its Global Depositary Receipt (GDR) Programme. OMV Petrom’s GDRs are listed and trade on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the symbol “PETB” for the Regulation S GDRs and “PETR” for the Rule 144A GDRs, with each GDR equivalent to one hundred and fifty (150) ordinary shares. OMV Petrom’s ordinary shares are also listed and trade on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) under the symbol “SNP”.

 For merchants, the integration of value added services including those that are ‘tax free’ and alternative payment procedures at the Point of Sale (e.g. Alipay, WeChat) is becoming increasingly important. Wirecard, one of the leading suppliers of electronic payment and risk management solutions, and Premier Tax Free, a company in the Fintrax Group and a leading supplier in the field of tax free services, have joined forces to offer merchants even more alternatives and greater flexibility.

A new research report released today found that while Millennials depend on their digital devices, they are still uneasy sharing personal information to open bank accounts. The report, UK Millennial Study: Privacy vs. Customer Experience in Financial Services, focused on UK Millennials’ tolerance of friction when opening new bank accounts or credit cards, and their level of comfort when sharing personal information online and on mobile. The report was published by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

One of the key participants of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia will be a speaker that is unique for Russia – financial analyst and former vice president of JPMorgan Chase Tone Vays. On November 10, he will present his vision on how blockchain will develop in Russia and globally.

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 RiXtrema, a company that provides risk management tools and analysis to the financial advisory and broker/dealer community to help ensure that clients get the analysis and advice they need, today announced the launch of its 

On a mission to promote financial health, Lantern, a financial technology platform provider, announced today that it has integrated with financial infrastructure company Plaid.

The collaboration brings together two FinTech innovators dedicated to delivering higher-quality solutions within the existing financial landscape. Lantern’s innovative applications, which leverage Plaid’s technology, empower consumers to interact with their credit profiles in novel ways, driving solutions that benefit the entire ecosystem.

Pragma, a leading provider of high performance algorithmic trading tools and managed services, has completed the upgrade and migration of its New York trading and connectivity infrastructure to Equinix’s NY5 data center.

The datacenter move concludes a multi-million-dollar upgrade of Pragma’s technology infrastructure. Over the last year, it has migrated to a new generation of server and network equipment in order to provide its algorithmic trading clients with greater performance, capacity, and operational resiliency.