Finish invoice trading platform Arex has closed a €3m financing round led by venture capital firm Lifeline Ventures.

Australian FinTech startup LoanDolphin has been valued at $5m after it completed its seed financing from two key investors.

US retirement products and life insurance provider Annexus has formed a new venture firm to target InsurTech, FinTech and software startups.

Investment firm IBID Group has purchased Dalberry, an all-in-one technology provider for secure online payments.

Ontario and Australian securities regulators have signed an agreement to help innovative FinTech companies to enter the others’ market.

Financial services compliance startup Droit Financial Technologies has picked up $16m of investment led by Goldman Sachs, Pivot Partners and Wells Fargo. Principal trading firm DRW also took part in the Series A funding round for Droit, which aims to ensure that sales and trading transactions are executed across jurisdictional guidelines on a timely basis by producing thousands of automated trading...

Risk alignment software firm Riskalyze has raised $20m in its first round of outside institutional financing from FTV Capital.

Commercial property marketplace Property.Works has closed ?1.5m in a seed funding round. The investment comes from Passion Capital, M7 Real Estate and Robert Orr.

Payments automation service AvidXchange has raised $3.5m in a new round of equity funding according to an SEC filing. The financing comes from two investors that remain unnamed.

MPOWER Financing has raised $6m in a Series A round led by private equity firm Zephyr Peacock India. The Washington DC and Bangalore-based company aims to help finance international students.