Baidu has divested a majority stake in its financial services unit, raising capital from investors including Taikang and ABC International.

The corporate's Vision Fund is reportedly set to invest $150m in the insurance portal as part of the round, which could value it at $1bn.

PayPal was among the investors as the consumer cash-back platform completed a series A round that will support product development.

Swisscom, Avaloq, Swiss Post and Sicpa have all backed a round of undisclosed size for the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology provider.

Gold trading platform developer Tradewind has raised $10.6m in a round featuring gold miners Agnico Eagle Mines, IAmGold, Wheaton Precious Metals and Goldcorp.

The insurance management platform, backed by ProSiebenSat.1 and Axel Springer at series A stage, has now raised $45m altogether.

Amazon has supplied $22m to help the business lending platform boost its latest round to $67m and its overall funding to almost $110m.

The gaming equipment maker, which already owns 35% of online payment platform MOL, will wholly acquire the company at a valuation of almost $100m.

Line Ventures and Naver contributed to a bridge round for the mobile balance-checking and recharging app developer, which launched a mobile wallet in December.