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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Contactless Payment Trends We’re Watching Now for 2022

Rafael Lourenco, EVP & Partner, ClearSale Although contactless payments became much more popular because of the pandemic, they’re not going away even as ...
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Why fintech is a fundamental addition to Community Banks

By Carl Memnon, Co-Founder and COO at Grain Technology. When it comes to banking innovation, we are seeing more and more financial services ...
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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 ...
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Feb 14 Global payments news roundup

A busy day and busy week ahead for global payments news in this roundup from PaymentsNEXT. US e-commerce jumped 14.2% in 2021, payments ...
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Outlook for digital payments is bright for 2022

By David Sharp, President, PaySimple In the past, an integrated digital payment solution was viewed by many businesses as a “nice to have” ...
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Feb 8 Global payments news roundup

Here’s the global payments news we’re keeping an eye on this week. A new one-click payment release by Bold Commerce, a BOPA delivery ...
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New account bots swamp PayPal with 4.5 million phony accounts

By Jeff Domansky As PayPal’s CFO saw Tuesday, some earnings calls provoke unexpected consequences. In an effort at transparency, and because it is ...
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Visa and Mastercard’s new approach to direct selling explained

How the regulatory environment is changing to protect consumers, and what that means for specialized businesses By Shaun Lavelle, SVP & General Manager, ...
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3 trends driving the digital identity market in 2022

By Rodger Desai, Prove Co-Founder & CEO As we evolve into a more phone-centric and mobile-first world, digital identification is becoming a powerful ...
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Jan 16 Global payments news roundup

Payment industry leaders are gearing up for a year of continued growth, a competitive and challenging business environment, and a few unknowns in ...
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