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Global Blue Launches Global Blue Ventures to Support Its Omnichannel Market Expansion Ambition Global Blue Ventures supports Global Blue's position as the strategic omnichannel technology and payments partner empowering merchants to improve their performance Global Blue Ventures focuses on investment and/or partnership with third parties that offer best-in-class RetailTech innovations, enabling Global Blue to expand its product offering and bring more value to its retail clients Thanks to Global Blue Ventures, Global Blue has already partnered with a number of leading and fast-growing RetailT...

BoE, HM Treasury intro CBDC unit. Ex-Pimco exec talking digital assets. How brokers are breaking into BTC. PBoC on crypto as alt-investments. Insurtech Versured launches offers. NA startup funding was on fire in Q1. Knox Financial raises $10M funding. Open Bank Project, API3 partnered. Pluto Digital Assets planning an IPO. UK removing MiFID II requirements. US banks deploy AI monitoring tech. How fintechs lower acquisition costs. Citi eyes big technology ambitions. OKEx integrates Lightning Network. OCC intros a clearing fee reduction. Circle picked Signature over USDC. Mastercard to buy a di...

Earlier this month, Bakkt, a digital-currency fintech that specializes in concurrency, rewards and loyalty points, announced a partnership with prepaid and payments product provider Blackhawk Network, to empower users to easily purchase eGift using digital assets, supported loyalty points, and cash. As part of the development, Benzinga chatted with Bakkt CEO Gavin Michael. Digital Disruption: Fintech is an enormous competitive threat, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon. Those comments come as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic accelerated the digital disruption in fi...

First, Krispy Kreme offered free donuts for people who get COVID vaccinations. Next up could be local governments handing out gift cards. Is that OK?

Cheryl Parson: Gift card fraud Gift cards. They are everywhere! According to a 2013 Smithsonian Magazine, it was Neumann Marcus stores that first introduced the gift card; however, the article also says the company didn’t advertise or display them. The article goes on to explain it was Blockbuster that first displayed gift cards in its stores to counteract the widespread counterfeiting of their paper gift certificates. Starbucks soon followed suit, introducing gift cards that could be reloaded. An AARP survey found that two-thirds of the public intended to buy them for the 2020 holiday seas...