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The real price of the bitcoin gold rush
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With international focus on sustainability sharpening, the energy consumption of the world’s first ever popular virtual currency, bitcoin, is being put under the microscope. Its most vehement detractors argue bitcoin uses an unjustifiable amount of energy, and represents a thorn in the side of the wider green transition. Bitcoin’s advocates, on the other hand, claim this is an oversimplification, and measures can be taken to ensure the blockchain network becomes sustainable long-term.
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CrwodProperty launches in Australia
Source: CrowdProperty The UK’s leading specialist property project online lending platform CrowdProperty has expanded its international footprint, announcing the launch of CrowdProperty Australia. Leveraging the UK s market-leading asset-class expertise, proprietary technology and experience of growing the leading specialist platform in its space in the UK, CrowdProperty has launched in Australia to offer a non-bank lending alternative to the SME property development market, which faces very similar pains to those being solved by CrowdProperty in the UK.
UK Retailers Are Redefining The Employee Experience By Listening To Workers
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As eager UK consumers return to full capacity in-store shopping, retailers are asking workers the same question customers hear: how can we help you? That’s because worker mental health and well-being has shot to the top of every retailer’s priority list, making the employee experience (EX) paramount to meeting customer needs.
Retailers are transforming the employee experience to meet evolving worker expectations in a post-pandemic environment.
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Listen and act on employee experiences
Essential workers who labored in grocery stores to make sure we could purchase food during the worst days of the pandemic are likely facing different stressors than furloughed employees who are returning to in-store fashion retail establishments. Front line or not, every employee is struggling to navigate the post-pandemic retail workplace. The pressure is on companies to understand what employees
By TimesLIVE - 13 May 2021 SA online retail leapt to R30bn last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic drove consumers to e-commerce experiences. Image: 123RF/Christian Mueller
Online retail jumped to R30.2bn in SA in 2020, thanks to the explosion in demand for home deliveries and entertainment brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and periods of lockdown.
This is according to a study conducted by World Wide Worx with the support of Mastercard, Standard Bank and Platinum Seed.
The total growth for online retail in SA in 2020 came to 66%. “The most astonishing aspect of this total is that it is more than double the R14.1bn reached in 2018, in just two years,” says World Wide Worx MD Arthur Goldstuck, principal analyst on the research project.
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Bank of Ireland makes it easier for asylum seekers to open bank accounts 3 hours ago
Source: Bank of Ireland Bank of Ireland has made it easier for international protection applicants to access everyday banking services by accepting alternative State-issued documentation as proof of identity and address when opening current accounts. The Bank has also launched a new website hub offering practical guidance and support to asylum seekers and refugees on account opening.
Asylum seekers may not have the traditional documentation that most banks - including Bank of Ireland - require to set up a bank account. They may also have more limited knowledge of the local banking system and the options available to them.