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subscription renewals decline
Payments Research Payments Trends

Payment decline trends in consumer subscriptions: Strategies to retain customers

By Brian Geier, VP of Business Intelligence, Recurly Insights drive business decision-making, and Recurly has a unique subscription industry perspective. We have an invaluable view of hundreds of millions of subscribers across thousands of industry-leading consumer subscription brands. Something interesting popped on Recurly’s radar during ...
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fintech software disrupts traditional payment processors
Disruptive Technologies Payments Research Payments Trends

Payments software dooms incumbent processors

Software is enabling better payments execution and increasing the power of merchants By Rikhil Bajaj, Head of Fintech and Software, Tarsadia Investments When Adyen’s (AMS: ADYEN) stock price declined over 50% in the week following its Aug 17, 2023 earnings announcement, it was symptomatic of ...
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B2B payment rails risk
Banking Payments Research Payments Trends

5 reasons secure business payments must be a priority

By Shai Gabay, Co-founder & CEO, Trustmi Fraud and human errors affecting business payments have threatened companies worldwide over the last decade.  However, we’ve seen this trend accelerate over the past four years, with many reports showing that it’s only getting worse. Various activities enable ...
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Credit Card Competition Act could save $15 billion
Banking Chargebacks Fintech Payments Research

PaymentsNEXT Newswire: $15B savings from Credit Card Competition Act, tech payment preferences, MoCaFi, Bottomline, Chargebacks911, Mastercard, Umpqua

A busy week in payments news already. We’ve got a roundup of the latest global payments news to keep you in the know and out in front of the latest industry developments. The Merchants Payments Coalition says the Credit Card Competition Act could save merchants ...
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Banking Fintech Payments Research Payments Trends

Treasurers embrace modern payments, but old methods die hard

Corporate treasury departments are embracing social tokens, real-time payments, virtual cards and other digital innovations for their speed, security and convenience, according to new research from Citizens. But, traditional payment modes – checks, Automated Clearing House (ACH) and physical credit cards still cling to life in ...
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PaymentsNEXT newswire
Cybersecurity Disruptive Technologies Payments Research

PaymentsNEXT Newswire: April 20, 2023 – SEON, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Clickatell, Gr4vy, TransUnion, WiX, PayNearMe, DOJ-Nexway, FiVerity, VizyPay

Welcome to our new weekly PaymentsNEXT Newswire Roundup. Every Friday, our editorial team provides a quick capsule and links to the week’s most relevant payment industry news releases. News, Technology & Deals SEON’s latest report confirms that Europe leads the world in cyber threat protectionFinancial ...
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Economic clouds ahead?
Payments Research Payments Trends

Are you ready for a rockier economic road?

By Greg Cohen, CEO of Fortis Economic uncertainty has always been a variable for businesses. Still, with public market valuations down, inflationary pressures, a war in Eastern Europe, post-COVID reeling supply chains and rising interest rates, many are certain a recession is near. Even if we ...
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green banking services
Banking Payments Research

Younger UK bank customers want more “green” from FIs

New research from open banking platform Tink shows young UK bank customers expect their financial service providers to demonstrate stronger environmental credentials. And many are willing to switch banks for greener options. The Feb 2022 survey of 2,000 UK customers showed that younger consumers are ...
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identity fraud cost $52 billion
Credit Card & Online Fraud Payments Research

US identity fraud losses spiral to $52 billion

By Jeff Domansky The fraud landscape shifted dramatically as criminals boldly increased the hijacking of victims’ online lives with the cost of fraud jumping to $52 billion according to the 2022 Identity Fraud Study: The Virtual Battleground by Javelin Strategy & Research. Traditional identity fraud ...
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merchant credit card fees rising
Payments Research Retail

Amazon settles Visa fee spat; US merchants challenge fees

By Jeff Domansky While Amazon and Visa settled a simmering dispute over credit card processing fees, US merchants have ramped up a campaign to convince legislators to examine the impact of credit card processing fees on small businesses. In November 2021, Amazon had announced plans ...
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