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New Mobile Healthcare Efforts Point To Wider Payment Trends

PYMNTS

Slowly but steadily, healthcare is becoming more mobile about payments, and that trend – a very long time in coming – appears to have picked up steam in recent months. The app, called CareSpree, reportedly will roll out later in July in Indiana before expanding to other states in Anthem’s territory. CVS Health Corp. and Cigna Corp.

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Rover180 Acquires Vemity To Boost AI Capabilities

PYMNTS

Rover180 has acquired Vemity , an Indiana-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) automation and machine learning. The company will now use Vemity’s technology to cut costs related to invoicing and accelerated payments for the transportation industry.

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Verizon 5G Network Launch Foreshadows Mobile Commerce Changes

PYMNTS

The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. 5G Potential. Verizon’s 5G Play.

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Fifth Third Taps Accion To Reach More SME Borrowers

PYMNTS

Reports late last week said the bank will work with SME lending portal Accion, a nonprofit company, to facilitate the financing of these companies across five states: Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2019 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. First Capital, Inc. Nasdaq: FCAP) First Capital, Inc. is the parent company of First Harrison Bank, a community bank headquartered in Corydon, Indiana. CD's only account for 5% of total deposits.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

Is payment enabling those storefronts next? . The venture capital backers are no doubt smiling. . This is no FinTech or payments unicorn, really, but rather a communications play via app software where top line growth of roughly 88 percent is enough to have the Street looking ahead to some type of profit scenario. Walmart Pay.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Companies across industries from food delivery to mobile payments disintegrate for all kinds of reasons, from technology errors and logistical challenges to overspending and outright fraud. Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Total funding : $161M. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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