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• “New Investment in Tyfone Takes Total Capital to $12 Million”

Around the web

• FIS to purchase SunGard for $9.1 billion.

• Lending Club launches its Open Integration program, unveiling a suite of APIs for online advisers and broker-dealers.

• In Gartner’s latest report, Backbase scores twice in the top 5 for the B2C Informational and B2C Transactional use cases.

• Bluefin Payment Systems partners with EchoSat to protect point-of-sale systems from security breaches.

• Inc. ranks Kabbage as 36, WePay as 62, Prosper as 86, and Cardlytics as 88 in a list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in America.

• Column in Stars and Stripes highlights CrowdFlower in discussion on micro-work.

• TradeShift to acquire Merchantry for $30 million.

• Dwolla adds two-factor authentication for full account holders.

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