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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payments industry disruption ahead
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Payments disruptions, fintech innovations & trends to track

The payments industry is stressed by rapid change, disrupted by fintech and offside with the needs and desires of consumers. We highlight key disruptions worth watching. ...
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Mobile payments booming in new economies and growing in developed markets

According to Salesforce, 31% of millennials use mobile as their primary banking option, followed by 51% of Gen-X and 40% of baby boomers using a combination of mobile and banking. More news ahead from PaymentsNEXT. ...
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digital payments and chargebacks grew 20%
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News & trends: The growing challenge of chargebacks

JP Morgan Chase estimates chargebacks are growing annually by 20% while online sales grow at only 7%. Our news roundup looks at why. ...
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Payments disrupters news: Adyen, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Infibeam, MercadoLibre, Cashbasha

We're highlighting fintech and other disruptors impacting the payments and financial services industries from the EU and US to Brazil and SE Asia including Adyen, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Infibeam, MercadoLibre and Cashbasha. ...
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PaymentsNEXT looks at worldwide digital payments
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Payments trends roundup: NetSpend, Trump2Cash, WeChat, Alipay, Revolut, Zeitgold

Today's PaymentsNEXT news roundup includes items on NetSpend, Trump2Cash, WeChat, Alipay, Revolut, Zeitgold, First Global Data, Exactuals and more payments industry highlights. ...
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Global mobile payments news
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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 around the world
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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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rise of robo-advisors
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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 global financial network
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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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