What the 2025 Chargeback Surge Means for Banks and Merchants

By Douglas Hall, Founder & CEO of EQUE If you’re a financial institution or merchant hoping that chargebacks will plateau anytime soon, I’ve got news for you: they won’t. The just-released 2025 State of Chargebacks report from Datos Insights and Ethoca confirms what many of ...
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Mobile payments and P2P news roundup: Apple Pay, WePay, HSBC

Today, we're covering the latest news in mobile payments and P2P payments from the US and UK to Singapore and China. ...
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Payments news: Dodd-Frank, Amazon, Alibaba, Samsung, Rakuten, Klarna

A roundup of the latest payments industry news from across the US and around the world including Dodd-Frank, Amazon, Alibaba, Samsung, Rakuten and Klarna. ...
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Robo-advisors continue disrupting wealth management

We've got a roundup of the latest robo-advisors disrupting the payments and financial services industries from the US to Korea, Canada and abroad. The impact keeps growing and the list of fintech robo-advisor disruptors gets longer daily in financial markets around the world. ...
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Javelin 2017 Identity Fraud Report
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Identity fraud hit more than 15.4 million Americans in 2016

Identity fraud hit more than 15.4 million or 6.15% of US consumers in 2016, an increase of 16%. Card-not-present fraud, driven mainly by growth in e-commerce and mobile commerce, grew 40% according to Javelin Strategy & Research. ...
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Alibaba’s payments industry growth and world domination strategy

Alibaba's Ant Financial Services Group took a big step in its global growth strategy by acquiring US-based MoneyGram for $880 million. ...
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Mobile payments news: China, US, India, UK, Jamaica

Chinese New Year celebrations are going digital in a big way. Experts predict more than 100 billion hongbao digital red gift envelopes will be exchanged this year. ...
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20% Mexican tax for wall raises US cost jitters; other global payments trends

Yesterday's proposed 20% tariff on Mexican products to pay for Trump's wall had analysts urging caution at the President's plan. ...
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India could make biometric payments possible by 2020
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Future of the payments industry? Keep an eye on India

India could eliminate all payment cards and ATMs, and switch completely to biometric payments as early as 2020. Imagine the innovation and potential disruption? ...
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Global mobile payments growing fast; innovation ahead

We cover powerful potential developments in India where the country could eliminate all cards and ATMs and switch completely to biometric payments by 2020. Imagine paying with your thumb or eyes, without the need for cards or a smartphone? ...
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Chargebacks and the challenges ahead for e-commerce

ACI Worldwide research shows holiday shopping fraud attempts increased by 31%, while and fraud attempt rates for 2016 holiday shopping season grew to 1 in 97 transactions. ...
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