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Technip Energies committed capital the hydrogen fuel producer's latest round, while hydrogen continues to make inroads as an alternative energy source.

Genome engineering technology provider Synthego pulled in $200m through a SoftBank-backed series E round while payment technology producer Stronghold unveiled a $100m CVC fund.

The blockchain payment platform developer’s valuation through its imminent reverse takeover has doubled, buoyed by the popularity of its stablecoin.

Conversational automation software provider raised $400m while e-commerce and payment software provider Flutterwave secured $250m in a Salesforce-backed round valuing it at $3bn.

A decade's focus on digitalisation leaves physical assets vulnerable.

Softbank Vision Fund 2 co-led academic support software producer Paper's $270m series D round and a $144m round for online lender Funding Societies.

Banking firm BBVA returned to reinvest in Neon, part of a group of digital banking portfolio companies it has built, increasing its stake to nearly 30%.

Animoca Brands has joined multicorporate-backed MCP to provide $10m for its Japanese spinoff, announced alongside a $30m startup accelerator formed with startup studio Brinc.

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Major challenges that foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) face when doing business in emerging markets, such as China, can be conceptualized in terms of the risks that host countries' institutions present to them.

This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.