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Hundreds of people filled the sidewalks outside Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center on Friday afternoon to protest the first day that unvaccinated staff had been placed on leave.

Bakkt Teams Up With Cantaloupe to Accept Cryptocurrency & Participating Loyalty Points in Retail Network   Bakkt Holdings, LLC, a U.S.-based digital asset marketplace, announced on Thursday it has teamed up with Cantaloupe, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTLP), a digital payments and software services company, to provide cashless experience for consumers to spend digital assets at retail devices. Bakkt reported that through the partnership, in addition to cash, debit and credit card, or mobile wallet, consumers will soon have the choice and flexibility to pay for products with cryptocurrency and supported lo...

At $2,000 per failed course, that’s nearly $500 million in losses for students each year. How can that failure rate be cut in half? The professor suggests investing nearly $100 million into classroom alternatives like online learning. That’s the idea behind Outlier.org, an online education platform created and led by Aaron Rasmussen, the co-founder of MasterClass, a streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s authority on a variety of topics. In light of Outlier’s $30-million Series B round led by venture capital firm GV, Benzinga spoke with CEO and founder Rasmussen on...

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...