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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hidden fees up 37 percent
Payments Research Payments Trends

Hidden costs of paying US household bills jumped 37% in 2021

By Jeff Domansky US households spent more than $4.4 trillion on household bill payments in 2020. Unfortunately, the hidden costs with paying bills ...
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Oct 15 PaymentsNEXT news
Payments Research Payments Trends

Oct 15 Global payments news roundup & what’s trending

We’ve got a rapid-fire global payments news roundup from our long list of sources we follow. All the payments news you can use, ...
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Does cash still count?
Payments Research

The Case for Cash: 3 Reasons Why Digitizing Cash for Bill Pay Makes Business Sense

By Steve Kramer, Vice President, Product, PayNearMe As the payments industry evolves, technologies to support cash payers must also change. When you look ...
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online fraud growing
Credit Card & Online Fraud Cybersecurity

Financial fraud ramps up as holiday shopping season looms

By Jeff Domansky The biggest question in many retailers’ minds is whether fraud will take a front seat during the critical 2021 holiday ...
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SMB banking challenges
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How new services bring global banking closer to small businesses

By Sandeep Todi, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Truly Financial Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) increasingly buy services from other companies, hire ...
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fintech conference
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Key payment industry conferences resume face-to-face

By Douglas Hall, Publisher, PaymentsNEXT The critical fall conference season for 2021 is back in action with virtual conferences as well as a ...
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EU anti-money laundering regulations
Cybersecurity

What new EU AML initiatives mean for money laundering fight

By Martin Cheek, VP, SmartSearch Money laundering is a perennial problem for institutions around the world. Only last year, the US passed a ...
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Chargebacks Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce

Global CNP fraud hits 13% with costs to merchants rising fast

By Jeff Domansky A 15-month research study by global payments provider Vesta shows that from 10% to as many as 13% of card-not-present ...
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Dog Days news edition
Banking Fintech Payments Trends

Aug 31 Global payments news roundup

As we approach the end of the dog days of summer, we’ve got a roundup highlighting the latest global payments news. We start ...
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TSYS payments outage hits customers
Banking Payments Technology

Who’s your backup payment processor in an outage?

By Jeff Domansky Four days ago, global payment processor TSYS platform went offline, and merchants and ISOs are still waiting for an explanation. ...
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