GENERAL FINTECH

UK innovation agency Nesta is recruiting for a senior manager to co-ordinate a "multi-million pound" challenge prize programme aimed at encouraging fintech startups. Read More: www.finextra.com

Revalu8, an Australian real estate trading platform which aims to get buyers and sellers to interact more directly with each other, has raised A$1.5m...

With Article 50 triggered and the UK’s impending exit of the single market, a new US president, and a raft of European elections, it is often asked how this will affect FinTech. Read more: www.cityam.com

Investing under the title Nasdaq Ventures, the programme will make minority stake investments from below $1m to $10m in seed through to late-stage round. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com

London leads the way, and has done for many years, in terms of the development of institutional technology, ranging from the proprietary systems to ECNs. Read more: www.financefeeds.com

MAS has taken another step in the race to become the region's financial technology hot spot by harnessing specialist views on the rapidly growing field. Read more: business.asiaone.com

Vanessa Colella takes over from the division's founder and CEO Debby Hopkins, who announced in June her intention to retire at the end of the year. Read more: www.reuters.com

Melbourne-based fintech startup Airwallex has landed $3m to minimise cross-border payment risks. The pre-Series A investment round was led by Shanghai-based venture capital firm Gobi...

As established tech giants continue to set up shop in the city and homegrown startups flourish, Dublin enters the race to be Europe’s post-Brexit tech hub. Read more: http://www.pymnts.com/

Axis Bank launches innovation lab to partner with fintech start-ups. Read more: www.business-standard.com