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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Global payments trends on the horizon

The challenges will start with the new Trump administration in the US and Brexit in the UK and continue into the EU where dissension and disruption are a certainty in the new year. Add in worldwide political tension, nervous financial markets and the impact of technology and you have a recipe for the perfect storm. ...
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Payments fraud: 2016 holiday update

The employee training part of fraud management cannot be underestimated as this report from TV station KRQE shows. Data from EMVCo shows 394 million EMV chip cards already in circulation in the US. That's 26% of the market but only 7% of transactions are EMV purchases as the US lags in utilization. ...
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International payments growing in size and popularity

We've got the latest news in international payments and trends from the payments industry around the world. ...
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Chatbots: The fintech disruptor that’s already here

Disruptors are using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, chatbots, apps and smart solutions to make financial services more appealing to consumers. Today, we're looking at who's using chatbots and where the technology is going tomorrow. ...
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The latest payments fraud news and developments

Among his many 2017 cyberthreat predictions, lawyer and business professor Steve Weisman says watch out for more mobile payment fraud, ransomware, ATM and gas pump fraud, "spear phishing", bank cyberattacks and state-sponsored cyberattacks. ...
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Disruptive Payments technology update include tap, tip and sip beer

Our look at disruptive payment technologies includes Barclaycard's Pay@Pump which lets drinkers order pints on a touchscreen and pay for their favorite brew with a tap or an NFC-enabled device swipe. Now that's a technology whose time has come. ...
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Payments trends: mobile, NFC, bitcoin, new payment technologies and more

Will consumers pay by bitcoin, blockchain technology, NFC, mobile app, IoT or some other new payment technology in the future? We’ve got a quick update ...
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Payments industry research roundup

Our payments industry research roundup provides a useful update on the latest payments research in key markets around the globe. The North America ...
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Who’s on the move in mobile payments globally?

Today, we’ve got a roundup of news, new developments and trends in mobile payments. Forget bitcoin and mobile payments. According to a report ...
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What’s the latest in chargeback management?

Today, we’re taking a look at chargeback management, chargeback news, challenges and trends. A new report from Vesta and Javelin Strategy & Research says ...
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