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Wirecard, Ingenico Buoyed By Worldpay Acquisition

PYMNTS

Shares in Euro payments tech companies rose on Monday (March 18) after news of the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) takeover of Worldpay, a London-based payment processing company, according to a report by Reuters. Ingenico , a French-based payments company, saw its shares rise 1.1 billion as of 2018.

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Jobless Americans Can’t Afford Doctor Visits 

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While she still has health insurance, Hartman told the Times she’s worried whether coverage will expire when her unemployment payments are exhausted soon. “It We are seeing the financial pressure hit,” Dr. Bijoy Telivala, a cancer specialist in Jacksonville, Florida, told the Times. I definitely am avoiding appointments.”.

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4 ways to get more out of your core

Independent Banker

Not keeping up with a core vendor’s releases can also be costly to a community bank if it doesn’t leverage them, as releases often provide critical and important regulatory, compliance and feature function updates, says Maria Schuld, division executive, Americas Banking Solutions at FIS, which is headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Jacksonville, FL. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Trent Sorbe, President, Central Payments Division, Central Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. William Howle, Head of U.S.

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Amid Economic Vigor, Small Firms Struggle To Find Talent

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McMahon told the media outlet about one small business owner in Jacksonville, Florida who attributed rising investments and hiring to recent tax reform. Anecdotally, SMB hiring is strong, according to Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Linda McMahon, who spoke with CNBC this week.

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FIS, FICO Take Aim At Dirty Money With New AML Product

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The Jacksonville-based FIS said in a press release that its new AML system will draw upon “machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)” to detect suspicious transactions, alert financial institutions (FIs) and arm “bank investigators with detailed, transparent intelligence.”.

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Take Me Out To The (Payments) Ball Game

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We got the inside scoop of what the ballpark of the future might look like from FIS’s Bob Legters, chief product officer of FIS Global Retail Payments, and David Wright, Minor League Baseball’s chief commercial officer — and what brought two such different organizations together to build it. One ball park and customer experience at a time.

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