Financial

Creditas has received $231m in series D funding from investors including SoftBank through its Latin America Fund and Vision Fund, and Santander.

Visa has contributed to a $40m series B round for Anchorage, which is working on cryptocurrency protection technology that does not require a password.

Leapstack Data Technology will put the money from the PPDAI Group-backed $14.5m round to partner additional insurance companies in China.

Prudential Financial and existing shareholder PayU have backed a $135m series E round for Remitly, which concurrently obtained $85m in debt financing.

Opera spinout OPay has secured a funding round from investors including its parent company and Meituan-Dianping.

Tencent has contributed to a $35m series B round for Niyo Solutions, the operator of a mobile bank that gives blue collar workers access to financial services.

Analysis: Q2 2019

The latest note by data provider PitchBook found that, in the context of growth in corporate venture capital, the most active CVC arms it examines have shown a strong historical performance and corporate-backed portfolio companies have reaped benefits in the form of higher exit chances and lower bankruptcy rates

Innovative region: Switzerland

It has been a remarkable decade for innovation capital. More than $1 trillion of venture capital had been invested by the end of last year, according to data provider Pitchbook, driven by corporations engaging in more than half that total, according to GCV Analytics.

Sector Analysis: Information Technology