Video games are entertainment content that provides hours of fun, but players also experience a series of social and emotional benefits, helping them relieve stress, improve creativity, and even connect with other people.

Having fun is the main reason why people play video games (69% of players globally), as stated in the Power of Play study, published by the Spanish Video Game Association (AEVI) in collaboration with the Entertainment Software Association of America (ESA) and Video Games Europe.

But respondents (12,847 active players globally) also pointed out other reasons, such as for entertainment (63 %) or to reduce stress (55 %). In the twelve countries in which the study was carried out, 71 % of participants stated that playing video games helps them feel less stressed.

Players also report gaining valuable life skills applicable outside the virtual world of video games. For example, 64% of Spanish gamers believe that they can improve problem-solving, mathematics, technology, science and engineering skills.

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BNP Paribas will support the use of the digital yuan by its corporate clients, through a joint effort with the People’s Bank of China.

According to the local newspaper South China Morning Post, BNP Paribas China has partnered with the Asian country’s bank so that customers can “connect with the BOC system, which will allow users to manage their yuan digital wallets by linking them to their bank accounts, track transactions, and make payments with Chinese digital currency through a digital yuan management system.”

Additionally, the initiative seeks to make it much easier for customers to use digital cash when making transactions in real time.

Another aspect that BNP Paribas China will exploit is the use of China’s CBDC in strategic areas “such as smart contracts, supply chain financing, public services and cross-border payments.”

As a step prior to the joint action between both banking entities, and in order to promote the adoption of its CBDC, China placed millions of dollars in digital yuan, several cities “gave away more than 180 million yuan, worth USD 26.5 million in the central bank currency through subsidies and consumer coupons.

Efforts to accelerate the adoption of the digital yuan among the population have reached the payment of civil servants’ salaries since May in the city of Changshu.

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Twitter, the popular social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is set to introduce a new set of financial features that will enable asset trading directly from the app in partnership with eToro, a global multi-asset investment firm, according to a report. from CNBC.

The new feature builds on Twitter’s “Cashtags” feature, which allows users to view real-time trading data for a variety of assets, including cryptocurrencies, from within TradingView. The partnership with eToro will further expand this feature to cover a wide range of instruments and asset classes, directing users directly to the eToro Finance app to access asset trading services.

The partnership between Twitter and eToro is seen as a perfect match, as the social network is popular with investors and retail traders, and eToro is known for its focus on the intersection of social and finance, especially with its “social trading” that allows users to imitate the trading strategies of others.

This partnership is also in line with Elon Musk’s plans to turn Twitter into a “super app”, an ambition he has previously expressed. Under his direction, Twitter has been seeking regulatory licenses to operate in the payments business in the United States and has been working internally on a payments function. In addition, Musk recently changed Twitter’s corporate name to X Corp, after merging with a shell company of that name, signaling his vision of turning the platform into a super app, as has become popular in Asia with apps like WeChat that They offer a wide range of services.

eToro CEO Yoni Assia hopes this partnership will allow them to reach new audiences and better connect the Twitter and eToro brands. The exact details of the financial features that will be added to Twitter have yet to be revealed, but this partnership is expected to be an exciting step in the expansion of financial services on the social media platform.

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Japan’s leading bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Group, recently announced that from 2023 its clients will be provided with innovative financial services from the metaverse.

The information was released after the financial institution reached a strategic alliance with the firms ANA Holdings and Sompo Japan Insurance, which will allow it to venture into the almost unlimited world of the metaverse in the financial field.

As published by the Nikkei newspaper, “starting next March, users of the Japanese bank will be able to attend the bank through their avatars. Within the bank’s virtual space, users will be able to access financial services and carry out various activities”.

With this innovative initiative, the Mitsubishi UFJ Group will bet on modernizing its platform, which covers 38 million users “who have air miles from the airline holding company ANA Holdings”, one of the companies with which it has partnered.

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LaLiga recently reported that it is satisfied with the agreement reached with the sports and technology company EA Sports for the 2023-2024 Spanish championship season.

The leading video game distribution company will contribute approximately 30 million euros per year. The data indicates that this will be the last season of LaLiga Santander, thus culminating the seven-year contract valued at more than 17 million euros.

The season with the new sponsor will be focused on digital content and technology, in a business oriented to the global market, with young people as the main target. In fact, the popular sports video game FIFA will be renamed EA Sports FC starting this season.

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⚽🤝🎮 @EASPORTS FC será el patrocinador principal de todas las competiciones de LaLiga a partir de la temporada 23/24.

— LaLiga (@LaLiga) August 2, 2022

LaLiga seeks to achieve a greater presence in the market through a strategic combination of sport and cutting-edge technologies, managing concepts such as grassroots sport, brand, content, as well as considering changes in brand strategies.

The objective is to strengthen the presence and reach of LaLiga at a global level. They do not rule out the organization of various sporting events at a national and international level to make football more accessible to young people.

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Japan’s leading banking institution Sumitomo Mitsui Trust (SMT) has announced its willingness to enter the crypto ecosystem in partnership with Japanese exchange Bitbank. Te purpose is to launch a company that will focus on offering institutional-grade custody for digital assets and NFTs.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust obtains 15 % of the shares of the Japan Digital Asset Trust company, the other 85% is from Bitbank, with the aim of absorbing “the local institutional market that still sees the custody issue as an element dissuasive to invest in these new products”.

The Japan Digital Asset Trust company plans to start its activities before the end of the year, with the launch of a “stablecoin in yen“, protected by the legal rule that makes it easier for financial entities to issue this type of product.

In order to materialize its plans, the financial entity SMT has 2 million dollars of committed capital for the launch of its new company and expects to raise a total of USD 78 million dollars.

For Sumitomo Mitsui Trust, investors feel greater security and comfort if the custody of digital assets is under the responsibility of recognized financial institutions “rather than just exchanges, which often do not face the same scrutiny from investors. established regulatory bodies.

Banks are approaching cryptocurrencies

As the cryptocurrency ecosystem was impacted by geopolitical factors, public and private institutions moved away. However, now the signs indicate that this gap is getting smaller and this is demonstrated by the Japanese banks.

The announcement of different Japanese banks is made after the report published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where it noted that regulatory obstacles few financial entities offer services related to cryptocurrencies.

In the report, the BIS highlights that it is necessary for banks to assume greater exposure to cryptocurrencies so that they can have a greater capacity for innovation and increase financial inclusion.

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Alfredo Padilla, director of the Association of Entrepreneurs and Microentrepreneurs of Venezuela (Atraem), said that 7 million Venezuelans work independently or on their own. The figure is higher than those employed in the sector and in the private sector.

According to Padilla, independent work and “informal enterprises” have become the most important source of popular private economy.

In the country there are “300,000 micro-enterprises, tens of thousands of market concessionaires and their employees, tens of thousands of open-air markets, indoor commerce and services in residential complexes and in the neighborhood.”

In addition to the rental of commercial premises or annexes that offer “hairdressing and beauty services, transportation, teachers and self-employed professionals, health assistants, entertainment, recreation, gastronomy, artisans, vendors in public spaces and fairs,” explained the director of Atraem.

On the other hand, Padilla explained that in Venezuelan laws, as well as in the recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO), there are legal provisions that recognize the “rights of association and social security of these workers.”

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The cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it will once again operate in the Malaysian markets thanks to the platform’s strategic alliance with Cuscapi Berhad.

This is how the company will operate in the Digital Asset Exchange, one of the four most recognized market operators in the region licensed by the Securities Commission (SC).

Binance has a significant presence in the Asian region and with its new partnership in Malaysia, the exchange aims to expand the sustainable growth of the cryptocurrency market in the Southeast Asian region.

A spokesperson for the company assured that “this is part of Binance’s initiatives to cooperate with regulators. By working with regulated platforms, we are supporting local representatives to further expand their businesses while complying”.

Hello Malaysia. 🇲🇾https://t.co/vsHzHlm7KI

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) March 1, 2022

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The Crypto.com platform signed a partnership with the Visa card payment network, which will allow it to become a main member in Australia.

Through a statement, the digital assets company highlighted that the collaboration meets the line that the company sought to promote, in terms of the possibility of offering a prepaid Visa card with cryptocurrencies.

The Crypto.com Visa card is already used in more than 30 countries around the world, including the United States and Canada, as well as nations in Europe and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Crypto.com plans to begin direct issuance of its Visa card in the country, and the company says it will use its presence in Australia to seek greater market share for its card service around the world.

Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, stated that “signing the global partnership with Visa and becoming a senior member with the global leader in digital payments affirms our commitment to accelerate the world’s transition to cryptocurrencies.”

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