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Egan-Jones Examines America’s Dependence on a Mobile Finance Industry

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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Egan-Jones released an analysis examining how dependent the American economy has become on finance, and why that dependence leaves it exposed if the world’s financial center of gravity moves as it has before.

Finance and insurance generated 2.8 percent of US gross domestic product in 1950 and roughly 8 percent today, while the sector’s share of domestic corporate profits peaked near 38 percent in 2002. Talent followed: finance drew 21 percent of Harvard seniors entering the workforce in the Class of 2025, the largest single destination, on a 195 percent pay premium.

The vulnerability is mobility. A firm can manage a billion dollars with nearly the staff it needs for a hundred million, and assets leave as easily as they arrive, as the rapid deposit flight at Silicon Valley Bank showed.

History supplies the pattern. Amsterdam’s exchange grew out of a trading empire, London’s institutions followed naval and industrial supremacy, and New York’s rise came more than a century after America first led in farming and then manufacturing. Financial leadership arrived after real economic power in each case, and receded with it.

Trade has already moved. In 2000, 33 countries traded more with China than with the United States; today 151 do, against 57. Egan-Jones also points to the renminbi settling most of China’s cross-border transactions and to Deutsche Bank’s appointment by the People’s Bank of China as a renminbi clearing bank.

Capital has not followed. The S&P 500 has quintupled since the eve of the financial crisis while the Shanghai Composite sits below its 2007 peak, an advantage attributed to US innovation, capital depth, demographics, and dollar primacy. Taiwan is identified as the point where that balance could reprice quickly if Beijing grows impatient, with announced US Navy transits of the strait down from a trailing-twelve-month peak of 16 in 2021 to 2.

America’s position does not disappear in this account. Egan-Jones instead offers markers for institutional investors and risk managers: the renminbi’s share of trade finance, foreign participation at Treasury auctions, and alternatives to SWIFT, framed as a way to recognize a shift in financial gravity early enough to matter for raising and deploying capital.

About Egan-Jones Ratings
Egan-Jones, an NRSRO founded in 1995, offers timely and accurate credit ratings and proxy services.

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PETER PIPER PIZZA UNVEILS $1 MILLION INVESTMENT IN NEW GAMES, LIMITED-TIME BITES FOR THE ULTIMATE FAMILY NIGHT OUT

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Systemwide arcade refresh, new made-from-scratch menu items mean more variety, more fun and more flavor on every visit

PHOENIX, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — — Peter Piper Pizza, the made-from-scratch, never-frozen pizza and family entertainment brand, is rolling out its biggest arcade refresh yet with a $1 million investment at over 40 locations in Arizona and New Mexico, along with three new limited-time menu items available at participating locations, giving families fresh reasons to connect over food and play.

New Arcade Games Rolling Out at All Peter Piper Pizza Locations in Arizona and New Mexico
Peter Piper Pizza will unveil more than 100 new games and clawcade machines across all Arizona and New Mexico locations by the end of the month. Games vary by location, and titles include Guardians of the Galaxy, SpongeBob Ticket Coaster, Monopoly Roll-N-Go, Avengers Pusher Single, Break the Plate, NBA Gametime, Ring Toss Jr., Spider-Man Pusher Single, Angry Birds Boom!, The Mystery Machine and more.

Limited-Time Menu Items at Participating Locations
Peter Piper Pizza is launching three premium, limited-time menu items in August 2026, designed to satisfy a range of cravings. These limited-time items are available at participating locations in Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mesquite, Texas:

Cheddar Dippers: Our made-from-scratch, never-frozen dough brushed with garlic butter and stuffed with cheddar cheese and a choice of bacon or jalapenos, then rolled and baked to perfection.Mandarin Cranberry Salad: A fan favorite that is making a comeback. Mixed greens, mandarin oranges, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds and poppy seed vinaigrette.Strawberry Crunch: Warm made-from-scratch, never-frozen dough with sweet strawberry spread, icing drizzle and sweet streusel crumbs.

“Families come to Peter Piper Pizza because we bring delicious food and entertainment together under one roof at a great value, and we want to turn everyday meals into something meaningful,” said Genaro Perez, chief marketing officer of Peter Piper Pizza. “Our arcade refresh and limited-time items build on the complete experience our guests want. From fresh games to made-from-scratch, never-frozen pizza, we are creating more ways for families to share a great meal, play together and make memories.”

Double Up XL Deal Offers Two Extra-Large Pizzas for $29.99
Families can make the most of their visit with the Double Up XL deal, featuring two extra-large, one-topping pizzas for $29.99, at participating U.S. locations. The offer is available for dine-in, carryout or delivery orders. For more information, visit www.peterpiperpizza.com/deals/.

Guests can find their nearest restaurant and plan their next family outing at peterpiperpizza.com.

About Peter Piper, LLC
Founded in 1973 in Glendale, Arizona, Peter Piper Pizza LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of CEC Entertainment LLC. With more than 115 locations across the United States and Mexico, the family-friendly pizza restaurant specializes in made-from-scratch pizza dough prepared fresh daily, along with dine-in, delivery and carryout options.

Peter Piper Pizza offers a complete family dining and entertainment experience, featuring arcade games, an all-you-can-eat weekday lunch buffet and beer for adults. The brand is committed to children’s education and community support, donating more than $600,000 annually to schools, hospitals and nonprofits focused on children’s development. For locations, menu options and more information, visit peterpiperpizza.com.

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Chronograph and Perplexity Announce Integration of Private Capital Data into Perplexity Computer

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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chronograph, leading global provider of portfolio monitoring, valuations, and analytics technology for private capital investors, announced a partnership with Perplexity to bring clients’ trusted Chronograph data into Perplexity’s answer engine, and its agent platform, Perplexity Computer. The integration enables private capital professionals to query their validated, auditable portfolio data in plain language within Perplexity, alongside the licensed research sources their teams already rely on.

As institutional investors increasingly adopt AI to accelerate research, valuation, and reporting, the importance of a well-governed data foundation only grows. Chronograph is now available among Perplexity’s new Licensed Finance Data Sources, bringing the most trusted private capital data to one of the most widely adopted AI research surfaces in a single workflow.

Through the connector, teams can pull validated portfolio data straight from Chronograph to drive analytics, generate reporting, and leverage advanced AI to create finished work, built against a trusted data foundation. Reported figures trace back to their source documents, so teams doing mission-critical work always know which data set produced which number.

“Private markets intelligence has traditionally been difficult to access and even harder to put to work,” said Jeff Grimes, Head of Live Events Products, Perplexity. “By bringing Chronograph’s institutional-quality data into Perplexity Finance, we’re giving investors a faster, more intuitive way to research private markets, compare opportunities, and turn complex information into decision-ready insight.”

“For 10 years we have worked to integrate trusted private capital data directly into investor workflows,” said Divya Odayappan, Product Lead, Chronograph LP. “With the launch of Perplexity Computer, it was only natural to partner to unlock Chronograph data within it. The value of Chronograph’s connector goes beyond speed and accessibility; an analyst can be confident when querying portfolio data and analyzing investments in Perplexity. This is key for an industry where trust and accuracy are everything.”

The Chronograph connector for Perplexity is now available to Chronograph clients with an eligible Perplexity Pro, Max, or Enterprise subscription. Customers authenticate their own entitlements; there is no separate data contract to negotiate. Please reach out to Chronograph at perplexity@chronograph.pe for more information.

About Chronograph

Chronograph was founded in 2016 to bring trust and efficiency to private capital markets data. The firm’s products help institutional limited partners and general partners — including many of the world’s largest private equity and private credit investors — streamline and automate portfolio monitoring, valuations, analytics, and reporting. The firm is backed by Sixth Street, Summit Partners, Carlyle AlpInvest, and Nasdaq, Inc. with offices in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK. For further information, visit www.chronograph.pe, and follow Chronograph on LinkedIn.

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Chronograph
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ReferralMD Powers Integrated Management for Accountable Care and Clinically Integrated Networks

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Parent-Child Account Architecture, Centralized Provider Management, and Network Performance Dashboards Eliminate Manual Administration Across Distributed Healthcare Organizations

MT. PLEASANT, S.C., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ReferralMD, the leading AI-powered patient journey orchestration platform, announces the successful implementation of its referral management, intake, fax, and communication platform for large Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and health systems. The deployments span hundreds of individual healthcare organizations within the systems, showcasing ReferralMD’s ability to support complex, large-scale networks – including Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs), ACOs, and Management Services Organizations (MSOs) – with automated data management and centralized oversight.

“This implementation shows what’s possible when network management is fully centralized: our customer’s team no longer has to manually track provider changes or pull performance reports across their network.”

The latest case study, available here, demonstrates how ReferralMD helped increase the number of referrals processed by 69%, effected a 21% reduction in processing time, and reduced leakage by 44%.

Accountable Care Organizations face mounting challenges in coordinating care across diverse provider networks, ensuring timely access for patients, and managing referral leakage that can cost millions annually. ReferralMD’s comprehensive platform addresses these critical needs by modernizing and streamlining referral workflows while connecting providers through secure, HIPAA-compliant communication tools.

Automated Network Management at Scale

In addition to placing its patient journey orchestration platform in every member practice, ReferralMD can replace, or integrate directly with, network membership databases, enabling fully automated provider, practice, and location management. ReferralMD automatically creates, updates, and deactivates provider records across the network without any human intervention ensuring data accuracy and eliminating hours of manual administrative work.

The deployments showcase three capabilities purpose-built for healthcare networks like ACOs and CINs:

Parent-Child Account Architecture streamlines account management for the network’s central team, enabling standardization across affiliated organizations, simplifying account access for staff, and providing consolidated reporting across every linked account from a single parent account.Centralized Provider Management gives the ACO’s leadership one place to manage every provider across the network, including each provider’s organization, practice, and location affiliations, as well as credentialing status, discovery, and onboarding and offboarding work flows.Network Performance Dashboards give leadership real-time visibility into performance at the network, account, practice, provider, and specialty levels, so they can identify high and low performing segments of the network without waiting for manually compiled reports.

Together, these capabilities give central management teams the ability to orchestrate care delivery staff and reports across all practices from a single, centralized dashboard, giving leadership real-time visibility and control across their entire network of affiliated organizations.

Key Benefits for CINs, ACOs, and MSOs:

Parent-Child Account Architecture: Streamline account management, standardize configuration across affiliated organizations, simplify account access, and get consolidated reporting across the entire network from one parent account.

Centralized Provider Management: Manage providers across the network from a single place, including organization, practice, and location affiliations and provider credentialing.

Network Performance Dashboards: Gain visibility into performance at the network, account, practice, provider, and specialty levels.

Seamless Referral Management: Reduce referral leakage and keep patients within the network through intelligent routing, real-time status updates, and advanced AI-powered analytics.

Simplified Intake & Scheduling: Quickly implement end-to-end AI-powered automation for patient intake and appointment scheduling to reduce administrative burden and improve access to care.

Fax & Communication Modernization: Transition from outdated fax processes to fully automated, AI-first fax and SMS communication solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing EHRs.

Why This Matters for ACOs Nationwide

Referral leakage can cost a large ACO up to $500M annually. As ACOs, CINs, and MSOs across the country grow, absorbing dozens or hundreds of affiliated organizations, the administrative burden of manually managing workflows, accounts, provider data, and performance reporting across a network can become a significant operational bottleneck. ReferralMD’s platform is designed to scale alongside these networks, automating the data management tasks that would otherwise require significant administrative resources, regardless of network size and geographic distribution.

ACOs using ReferralMD’s platform typically see:

20–30% reduction in referral leakage, keeping more patients in-network and generating millions in retained revenueShorter wait times for specialist appointments, improving patient access and experienceImproved provider alignment, leading to higher care quality scores and shared savings under value-based contractsSignificant administrative savings, as automated workflows cut manual processing time by up to 50%

“As ACOs scale to include hundreds of affiliated organizations, manually managing accounts, provider data, and reporting becomes unsustainable – no matter where in the country that network operates,” said Rick Hammer, Chief Product Officer of ReferralMD. “This implementation shows what’s possible when network management is fully centralized: our customer’s team no longer has to manually track provider changes or pull performance reports across their network. Instead, they can focus on what matters most — improving care coordination and outcomes for their patients.”

ReferralMD’s platform is trusted by leading health systems, provider groups, CINs, ACOs, and MSOs nationwide to unify referral workflows, improve collaboration, and deliver measurable financial and clinical outcomes.

About ReferralMD

ReferralMD is the leading patient journey and provider network orchestration platform connecting healthcare organizations, physicians, and patients with AI-powered workflow automation. The platform streamlines referrals, scheduling, fax management, provider communications, analytics, patient access, provider network management, and care coordination while leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to eliminate manual administrative work. ReferralMD helps health systems, medical groups, accountable care organizations, clinically integrated networks, and specialty practices improve patient access, increase referral conversion, and strengthen provider collaboration with the largest network and most-used platform for patient and provider orchestration.

For more information, visit www.referralmd.com.

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Elisabeth Buford, ReferralMD, 1 (800) 343-3729, elisabeth@referralmd.com, www.ReferralMD.com

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