The Kiip rewards are designed to have some value and occupy a middle ground between low-end supermarket coupons and high-end Gold Card-style programs.

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The digital currency exchange operated by Dominica-based Aurum Capital Holdings, Inc. supports bitcoin as well as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, Perfect Money, and c-gold and they offer two choices for cashing out into a card-based product.

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But as long as they had at least a gold credit card and a solid professional or civil-service job to go back to, they were free to come to Japan, to shop until they dropped.

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It retains a vast credit-card and mortgage-origination business, both of which are gold mines in less desperate environments but which require lots of committed staff.

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The Gold Cup was eventually re-run at the end of the day's card, when it was won by Frankie Dettori on Opinion Poll, but two horses failed to finish.

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Among the alleged baits recently used to separate unwary investors from their funds: film deals, 19th-century railroad bonds, gold mines, iron mines, equipment leases, "medium-term notes, " greeting card manufacturing, a board game teaching investors how to get wealthy and even Mormon church financings.

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The Business Gold Card will offer its small business customer base the ability to earn rewards through the ever-wider area of social media and online advertising in general.

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