Spanish banking giant BBVA has announced the 56 finalists for its eighth Open Talent competition that aims to seek out and support new FinTech startups and innovations.

Bitspark, a Hong Kong-based remittance service that leverages bitcoin and blockchain technology is partnering with direct marketing and e-commerce firm Vitaxel

Chinese peer-to-peer lending firm CreditEase is expanding its VC team with the hire of the former global CIO at Standard Charter Bank, Anju Patwardhan.

Australian small business-lending marketplace Bigstone has raised $3m in funding. The capital comes from private equity firm CVC.

UK challenger bank Mondo has passed a new milestone with more than £20m ($26m) spent through its service to date.

Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex is opting to split the cost of the $71m theft it suffered last week across all of its users.

Peer-to-peer lending firm Prosper is in talks with a group of investment firms to sell $5bn worth of loans over the next five years.

PayU, a payments provider owned by South African multinational Naspers, is acquiring Indian payments and mobile banking service Citrus Pay.

Derivatives processing business truePTS, a spinout of digital trading platform operator trueEX, has appointed Zohar Hod as its CEO.Hod is joining the company from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) where he most recently was global head of technology and data sales.TruePTS has seen trading volumes more than triple to $3.2tn over the fiven months from January to May 2016, compared with the same period...

San Francisco-based startup Bunker has raised $2m in a Seed round backed by Comcast Ventures, Route 66 Ventures, Hiscox and American Family Ventures.