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India-based FinTech startup CRED has been the newest entrée into the unicorn club after a $215m round takes its valuation to $2.2bn.

Japanese buy-now-pay-later provider Paidy completed a $120m Series D funding round.

London-based FinTech platform Butter has closed a £15.8m funding round to accelerate the rollout of its open-banking based buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) shopping app alongside developing its travel offering.

Chicago-based cannabis wholesale marketplace and payments platform, Leaf Trade closed a $5.5m Series A funding to ease payments in the sector.

Out of the 33 FinTech funding rounds we reported on last week, cybersecurity companies and cryptocurrency-based enterprises were the clear winners.

India-based FinTech DotPe, which has built an offline-to-online (O2O) commerce platform, has closed its Series A round on $27.5m.

Payments infrastructure company PPRO has extended its recent funding round by an additional $90m.

Mobile travel app Hopper pulled in $170m in a Series F funding round fueled by its new partner Capital One alongside launching Capital One Travel for the banking giant’s cardholders.

Digital banking platform aimed at Black and Latino communities, Greenwood raised $40m in a Series A funding round led by Truist Ventures.

Melbourne-based cross-border FinTech Airwallex raised another $100m in an extension to its Series D round.