Short Takes: Amazon accepts $ by reading your palm, $5.5B Tinkoff / Yandex acquisition, $1.2B payment card for kids, Ant Financial blockchain trade platform, ConsenSys & Hong Kong CBDC

Hi Fintech Architects --

Welcome back to the subscribers-only letter! Here are the top updates hitting our radar:

1. Greenlight Raises $215 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation To Help Millions More Parents Raise Financially-Smart Kids (link here)

2. Russia's Yandex in talks to buy online bank Tinkoff for $5.5 billion (link here)

3. Petal raises $55 million in series…