It's important to note that right now is a transitory time, with trends changing monthly as new government rules come into place, consumers are experiencing a transitional period into what's now becoming ‘normal’. That being said, Blis’ data shows a few trends over the last few months that are worth brands taking note of.
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A Central Bank Digital Currency: Challenges and Opportunities 2 hours ago
National digital currencies have passed from ideas and prototypes into reality. In addition to the Bahamas, China and Sweden, have been running digital currency pilots, and within a few years, we could see dozens of central banks issuing digital currencies.
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) differ from cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as national banks issue and back them. CBDCs rival stablecoins such as USDC because some stablecoins are also backed by fiat currency.
June 2, 2021
Etsy has announced it will buy Depop, a UK-based fashion resale marketplace, for $1.63 billion in a primarily cash deal. It’s Etsy’s second acquisition of a resale platform and much bigger than the last one its $275 million purchase of Reverb, a marketplace for new and used music gear, in 2019.
The company sees Depop as a way to bolster its business in clothing resale and with Gen Z, the generation generally regarded as being born between 1997 and 2012. It also expects to use its expertise in peer-to-peer marketplaces to help Depop grow, Etsy’s management explained on a call with investors and analysts today, and believes it can learn from Depop in return.
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An uneven global economic recovery in the second half of 2021 will create 100 million jobs this year and 80 million in 2022, but projected employment will still remain below pre-pandemic levels, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said, revising its forecast downward.
Growth in employment will not be enough to compensate for the losses suffered until at least 2023. The crisis-induced global jobs gap – a combination of actual employment losses and new jobs that would have been created in the absence of the pandemic – will reach 75m in 2021 before falling to 23m in 2022, according to the ILO s latest
World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2021 report.