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Customers are increasingly demanding 'experiential' retail interactions when it comes to buying clothes, whether that be online or in-store says Óscar García Maceiras, CEO of retail conglomerate and Zara owner Inditex. In an exclusive interview, he discussed 25 years of Inditex being a publicly traded company, the value of being a family-owned company, the use of AI in retail, and the importance of diversification both geographically and across product lines. He spoke on "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on Bloomberg TV.

Investec has applied for Ireland banking license as it seeks to boost its presence in Europe, and tap one of the world's largest financial systems. Group CEO Fani Titi spoke to Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja from London.

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has stirred fresh debate in the XRP community after changing his X profile picture to a Fuzzybear image.

Bitcoin’s implied volatility has fallen to its lowest level in seven months, even as global markets continue to track macroeconomic and geopolitical risks.

Polymarket is reportedly seeking approval from Japanese authorities to operate prediction markets in the country by 2030.

Sander van 't Noordende, CEO of recruitment giant Randstad, says their base case is that 7-8% of jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence over the next 5 to 10 years. However, Van 't Noordende says he does not see the "doomsday scenario" that some predict. In an interview on "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on May 21, van 't Noordende said AI will be a "wave" over the next decade, but also presents many opportunities, enabling many workers to be more productive, and requires massive infrastructure.

BlackRock Chief Investment Strategist Wei Li says artificial intelligence is driving a lot of the major earnings upgrades in equity markets. "We can look at AI lifting the whole market, but identifying where the bottlenecks are is a good active play," Li tells Bloomberg Television.

Bitcoin Pizza Day arrived this year with the famous 10,000 BTC pizza purchase worth roughly $777.87 million, down sharply from more than $1.1 billion a year earlier.

Tobias Adrian, the International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Monetary and Capital Markets Director, discusses the response by global economies to the supply shocks created by the Iran war as well as efforts to achieve a coordinated response to cyberattacks, as AI accelerates the threat. Adrian joined Lizzy Burden on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe.

The Saudi wealth fund is looking to combine its ports, rail and shipping holdings into a logistics giant. Bloomberg's Omar El Chmouri reports.

Trump Media & Technology Group transferred 2,650 Bitcoin worth roughly $205 million to Crypto.com, further reducing its corporate crypto treasury holdings.

The proposed multibillion-dollar tie-up between Puig and Estee Lauder fell apart due to makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury's demands regarding her compensation in the deal, according to people familiar with the matter. The news caught investors by surprise given discussions between the two had been progressing since March. Bloomberg Opinion's Andrea Felsted has more. Her opinions are her own.