Bakkt Acquisition a Step Closer and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/15/21

VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings, a special-purpose acquisition company, announced its shareholders approved VPC’s acquisition of Bakkt, thus taking the digital-asset marketplace public.
Payments-technology provider Worldnet Payments said it is the first integrated payments platform to complete a Level III EMV and contactless certification of Ingenico’s Self Series of devices. Ingenico is a unit of Worldline S.A.
Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said it has been chosen by BetMGM to process online sports bets.
Klarna AB said The Vitamin Shoppe, a health-and-wellness retailer, has adopted Klarna’s Pay in 4 buy now, pay later service.
Postron, which specializes in handheld payments devices for food trucks and restaurants, issued new software aimed at enhancing payments security and smoothing transaction flow.
(RED), an organization that partners with brands to raise money for global health, launched an effort to support urgent and equitable access to Covid-19 relief and is working with several payment brands to do so.
To support World Food Day Oct. 16, United Airlines, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Visa Inc. are rewarding United Visa cardholders who donate to nonprofit hunger relief organizations with five total miles for every dollar donated up to $1,000 through Nov. 30.
The Western Union Co. named Shannon Armbrecht its first chief diversity and talent officer. For the past nine years, Armbrecht has been a Western Union human resources executive.

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