Alipay, the online and mobile payments service operated by Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial, is expanding into Europe.

Irish financial technology provider FEXCO is partnering with Manila-based Electronic Network Cash Tellers (ENCASH) to bring mobile cash withdrawals to the Philippines.

Corporate bond platform Trumid Financial, which is backed by billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel, has now traded more than $1bn worth of securities.

Thomson Reuters is partnering with Imperial College London to take on big data challenges in FinTech, as well as the legal world.

Remitware Payments has raised $1m in funding from a lengthy list of angel investors across the US, UK and India.

Online payments solution for developers Stripe is acquiring the engineering team behind NoSQL database startup ReThinkDB.

Money Forward has raised $11m in a Series D round led by Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings and Mizuho Capital’s FinTech fund.

Banking giant Santander’s UK operation is partnering with alternative financing site Crowdfunder to provide £200,000 to community projects through the bank’s Changemaker Fund.

The capital comes from NewAlpha Asset Management and Oddo & Cie and takes the total raised by the Paris-based company to more than $13m.

London-based credit score provider Aire has raised $2m in a new round funding. The investment was led by White Star Capital with existing backers Sunstone Capital and Accion Venture Lab also participating.