HR, payroll and employee benefits platform HeavanHR has raised ?6m ($6.7m) in a Series A round of funding.

Head of Citigroup FinTech division Heather Cox is leaving the bank after less than a year.

Japan Mizuho Bank has teamed up with Amazon and Facebook to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) and chat bot interfaces.

London-based money transfer service FC Exchange is being acquired by Global Reach Partners (GRP) in an undisclosed deal.

Touzhijia.com, a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform, has raised $12m in a Series A round from US VC-firm CDF Capital.

Online lender SoFi (Social Finance) is settling a class-action lawsuit by paying a $2.4m fine.

Dutch multinational bank ING is taking on four new external startups and two internal projects for its latest accelerator programme.

France is receiving a new bitcoin ATM with GrupoBTC France, a subsidiary of ATM Bitcoin Exchange, installing the machine in the southern city of Montpellier.

DriveWealth, a New Jersey startup providing retail investors and ordinary consumers with access to the US stock market, is expanding its APIs to cater to investment advisors.