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Grupo Coppel has led a $50m series D round for Insikt, an online lender to the underbanked, whose existing shareholders also include Rakuten.

The Intel, Mastercard, Amex and Santander-backed small business payment and revenue platform has raised $47.3m in a Dawn Capital led round.

The Ola-backed mobile payment technology provider has added $10m from B Capital and DSG Consumer Partners to the $31m it raised in June.

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Naspers, an investor in Creditas' $19m series B round earlier this year, returned for a $50m series C that will support product development.

Jacques has become global head of Visa Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous US-listed payments firm.

The fashion e-commerce platform raised $165m in its latest funding round, which featured LVMH and Fidelity. This is one of the largest and latest rounds in the fashion space.

Adding Cell Design and Kite Pharma to its portfolio brings Gilead to the top table in probably the hottest area for advanced therapies and follows the playbook the company has used over the past few decades to expand.