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Shift4 Adds 140,000 Merchants in Worldline Deal
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (446+ words) By purchasing Worldline's Bambora North America business, Shift4 adds more than 140,000 merchants to its platform, the company said in a Monday (March 2) news release. "This deal brings a substantial gateway portfolio and payments volume onto Shift4's platform," said Shift4 CEO Taylor Lauber....
Mastercard Debuts Fleet Management Tools in Asia Pacific
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (299+ words) Mastercard launched a portfolio of fleet management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Mastercard Fleet: Next Gen is designed for fleets of all sizes and brings together payments, data and controls, the company said in a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release. The…...
PAR Technology to Add In-Store Consumer Data by Acquiring Bridg
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (377+ words) PAR Technology aims to continue its efforts to combine previously disjointed foodservice technology solutions by acquiring identity resolution and shopper intelligence platform Bridg, a division of Cardlytics. The global foodservice technology provider agreed to acquire Bridg for $27.5 million or up…...
WEX and Health-E Commerce Team to Ease HSA and FSA Reimbursements
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (460+ words) Consumer health and wellness online retailer Health-E Commerce has launched a partnership with WEX. This collaboration will integrate the company's FSA Store (flexible spending account) and HSA Store (health savings account) offerings into the WEX benefits portal, the companies said…...
Healthcare Costs Force One in Four Gen Z to Skip Care
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (256+ words) For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow is thin and costs are unpredictable. That imbalance helps explain why younger adults respond to…...
Trump Announces New Drug Pricing Deals With Major Pharmaceutical Companies
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (585+ words) American drug prices will come down fast and furious, and will soon be among the lowest in the developed world," Trump said during an Oval Office event announcing the deals. The companies newly signing on include Roche Holding AG's Genentech…...
Utah Reaches Antitrust Settlement With Sandoz Over Generic Drug Pricing
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (571+ words) Utah regulators have reached a settlement with global pharmaceutical company Sandoz Inc. in a lawsuit alleging anticompetitive conduct in the generic drug market, marking another step in a multistate effort to address rising prescription drug costs. The Utah Department of…...
Finexio and RipplePoint Launch Integrated AP Automation for Hospitality
3+ mon, 22+ hour ago (168+ words) The collaboration combines Finexio's Payments-as-a-Service infrastructure with RipplePoint's long-standing hospitality expense analytics system. The companies said the joint solution is designed to help operators reduce costs by 30% to 60% while shifting AP from a labor-intensive cost center to a profit generator....
Slow Claims Payouts Push Insurance Policyholders to Switch Carriers
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (317+ words) Insurance once sold peace of mind. Today, peace of mind arrives in milliseconds'or not at all. When policyholders file a claim, they are not benchmarking insurers against other carriers. They are benchmarking them against the rest of their digital lives,…...
Recovery Firms Accused of Exploiting Class Members in Generic Drug Price-Fixing Case
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (420+ words) Plaintiffs in a major antitrust lawsuit involving generic drug pricing have urged a federal judge to intervene against what they describe as deceptive marketing efforts by certain claims recovery firms. According to Reuters, the plaintiffs allege that these firms have…...